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  2. Petroleum industry in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Ontario was the centre of the Canadian oil industry in the 19th century. It had the oldest commercial oil well in North America (dug by hand in 1858 at Oil Springs, Ontario, a year before the Drake Well was drilled in Pennsylvania), and having the oldest producing oil field in North America (producing crude oil continuously since 1861). However ...

  3. Oil reserves in Canada - Wikipedia

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    In recent years technological breakthroughs have overcome the economical and technical difficulties of producing the oil sands, and by 2007 64% of Alberta's petroleum production of 1.86 million barrels per day (296,000 m 3 /d) was from oil sands rather than conventional oil fields. The ERCB estimates that by 2017 oil sands production will make ...

  4. Athabasca oil sands - Wikipedia

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    This would mean that Canadian oil sands production would grow from 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m 3 /d) in 2008 to 3.3 million barrels per day (520,000 m 3 /d) in 2020, and that total Canadian oil production would grow from 2.7 to 4.1 million barrels per day (430,000 to 650,000 m 3 /d) in 2020. [45]

  5. Offshore drilling in Atlantic Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Hibernia oil field is located 315 km from the east from Newfoundland in 80 m of water. The Hibernia platform is the world's largest oil platform by weight and size. The oil field was discovered in 1979 but production only began in 2007. The total oil field production is an estimated 704 million barrels as of 2010.

  6. Category:Oil fields of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Oil fields of British Columbia (1 P) N. Oil fields of Newfoundland and Labrador (5 P) W. Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (2 C, 117 P) Pages in category "Oil fields ...

  7. Hibernia oil field - Wikipedia

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    The production platform Hibernia is the world's largest oil platform [2] (by mass) and consists of a 37,000 t (41,000 short tons) integrated topsides facility mounted on a 600,000 t (660,000 short tons) gravity base structure. The platform was towed to its final site, and 450,000 t (500,000 short tons) of solid ballast were added to secure it ...

  8. Melville Island oil sands - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. List of oil fields - Wikipedia

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    The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [ 2 ] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East , but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls ) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico ...