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The jurisdiction over the petroleum industry in Canada, which includes energy policies regulating the petroleum industry, is shared between the federal and provincial and territorial governments. Provincial governments have jurisdiction over the exploration, development, conservation, and management of non-renewable resources such as petroleum ...
Canada also boasted the world's first oil pipeline when, in 1862, a line connected the Petrolia oilfield to Sarnia, Ontario. In 1895, natural gas began flowing to the United States from Ontario's Essex field through a 20-centimetre pipeline laid under the Detroit River. In Western Canada, Eugene Coste built the first important pipeline in 1912.
Husky Energy has proven petroleum reserves of 430,000,000 barrels (68,000,000 m 3) and 2 trillion cubic feet (5.7 × 10 10 m 3) of natural gas. It owns approximately 500 filling stations in Canada as well as property and/or mineral rights to some 6.67 million acres (27,000 km 2) in Western Canada. [citation needed]
Some petroleum production takes place today in every province and territory but Prince Edward Island and Nunavut. Today's oil and gas frontiers are in the territories and in the offshore regions of Atlantic Canada and British Columbia. Canada's early petroleum discoveries took place near population centres or along lines of penetration into the ...
The results were excellent, and the petroleum industry soon began producing bitumen through SAGD well pairs drilled and operated from the surface. The largest single plant in Canada to use in situ production is Imperial Oil's Cold Lake oil sand plant. This plant uses a technique called cyclic steam injection. Using this method, the company ...
See Category:American women in business, Category:American women in politics. Jewel Freeman Graham (1925–2015), educator, social worker, second black woman to head the YWCA; Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen (1853–1944), American civic leader, president Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association in Richmond, Virginia
Pages in category "History of the petroleum industry in Canada" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...