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Petrocurrency (or petrodollar) is a word used with three distinct meanings, often confused: Dollars paid to oil-producing nations ( petrodollar recycling )—a term invented in the 1970s meaning trading surpluses of oil-producing nations.
Petrodollar recycling is the international spending or investment of a country's revenues from petroleum exports (" petrodollars "). [3] It generally refers to the phenomenon of major petroleum-exporting states, mainly the OPEC members plus Russia and Norway, earning more money from the export of crude oil than they could efficiently invest in ...
The history of Canadian currencies began with Indigenous peoples in Canada prior to European contact, when they used items such as wampum and furs for trading purposes. The Indigenous peoples continued to use those items as currency when trade with Europeans began. During the period of French colonization, coins were introduced, as well as one ...
The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; French: dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard disambiguating form, but the abbreviations Can$, CA$ and C$ are frequently used for distinction from other dollar-denominated currencies (though C$ remains ambiguous with the Nicaraguan córdoba).
Petrodollar is far more common and usually means money from selling oil; petrocurrency is rare and is used either for unit of account or for currencies of oil producers such as Canada. So for example Iran is said to have petrodollars even when it does not have dollars.--Rumping 19:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC) Reply
Since 1971, when U.S. President Richard Nixon ended the dollar convertibility to gold, many foreign currencies emerged trying to replicate the pre-1971 situation. An example of a petrocurrency backed by gold was a project by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who released a project to create a multinational African currency, However, this project was discarded because he was overthrown by the ...
There are six denominations of Canadian circulation coinage in production: 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, and $2. Officially they are each named according to their value (e.g. "10-cent piece"), but in practice only the 50-cent piece is known by that name. The three smallest coins are known by the traditional names "nickel" (5¢), "dime" (10¢), and ...
There was to be royalties of $0.063 per cubic metre on production for the first five years, and $0.31 per cubic metre thereafter. Mining at the Abasand plant began May 19, 1941. By the end of September, 18,475 tonnes of oil sand had produced 2,690 cubic metres of oil, but in November fire destroyed the plant.