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The petroleum industry in Canada is also referred to as the "Canadian Oil Patch"; the term refers especially to upstream operations (exploration and production of oil and gas), and to a lesser degree to downstream operations (refining, distribution, and selling of oil and gas products).
Northern Canada, defined politically. The northern petroleum frontiers include the Beaufort Sea, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the long-established Norman Wells oil fields. The first great story in Canada's exploration of the geographical frontiers is that of Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories.
Although the conventional oil and gas industry in western Canada is mature, the country's Arctic and offshore petroleum resources are mostly in early stages of exploration and development. Canada became a natural gas-producing giant in the late 1950s and is second, after Russia, in exports; the country also is home to the world's largest ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development) History of the petroleum industry in Canada ...
In 1893, Parliament voted $7,000 for drilling. This first commercial effort to exploit the oil sands probably hoped to find free oil at the base of the sands, as drillers had in the gum beds of southern Ontario a few decades earlier. Although the Survey's three wells failed to find oil, the second was noteworthy for quite another reason.
The process of taking hydrogen sulphide out of a gas stream is called "sweetening" the gas. The Union Natural Gas Company of Canada (now Union Gas Ltd.) of Chatham-Kent, Ontario built Canada's first Koppers process sweetening plant in 1924 at Port Alma, Ontario, to scrub Tillbury gas. Hydrogen sulphide is a dangerous substance which at low ...
Leduc No. 1 was a major crude oil discovery made near Leduc, Alberta, Canada, on February 13, 1947.It provided the geological key to Alberta's most prolific conventional oil reserves and resulted in a boom in petroleum exploration and development across Western Canada.
The Melville Island oil sands are a large deposit of oil sands (sometimes referred to as tar sands) on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Exploration for petroleum deposits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago began, on Melville Island, in 1961. [ 3 ]