Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Farmers and small communities not served by natural gas adopted it for home heating fuel. In the early 1960s, markets for liquid petroleum gases grew rapidly. Companies responded by building "straddle" plants. These facilities straddled gas pipelines to extract additional volumes of gas liquids from the gas stream.
Conventional crude oil reserves in Canada (excludes condensate, natural gas liquids, and petroleum from oil sands). Oil reserves in Canada were estimated at 172 billion barrels (27 × 109 m 3) as of the start of 2015 . This figure includes the oil sands reserves that are estimated by government regulators to be economically producible at ...
History of the Petroleum industry in Alberta; History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development) History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas liquids) History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas)
World oil reserves as of 2013. The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines ), and marketing of petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol).
Both companies helped pioneer conventional exploration and production in western Canada during the 1950s and '60s. And beginning in the 1960s, they were also pioneers in Canada’s geographic frontiers and in oil sands and heavy oil development. Metric conversions. One cubic metre of oil = 6.29 barrels.
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, [1] and is found in geological formations. The name petroleum covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is primarily recovered by ...
I have just modified 2 external links on History of the petroleum industry in Canada (oil sands and heavy oil). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
Planned production in the Athabasca oil sands. Below is a brief timeline covering the history of the petroleum industry Alberta and its predecessor states. Date. Event. Reference. 1715. Captain Swan reports finding "gum or pitch" in the region now known as the Athabasca oil sand. The Captain's report is the first known to mention the oil sands.