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In 1980, a plant in Cold Lake was one of just two oil sands plants under construction in Alberta. [4] Although not developed as quickly and extensively as originally envisioned, an Imperial Oil plant in Cold Lake became the largest in situ oil sands project constructed in Alberta during the 1980s. By 1991, its daily oil production was 90,000 ...
The development of which produced even more oil. The field was eventually determined to be 32 km (20 mi.) long and 6½ km (4 mi.) wide. By 1953 the oil field supported 926 wells and was producing almost 30% of the entire province's output. The large volume of crude being produced made the construction of large transmission pipelines essential. [32]
By province or territory: Alberta; British Columbia; ... Pages in category "Oil fields of Alberta" ... Pembina oil field; U.
The Alberta Research Council set up two pilot plants in Edmonton and a third at the Clearwater River. These plants were part of a successful project (led by the Research Council's Dr. Karl A. Clark) to develop a hot water process to separate the oil from the sands. In 1930, the Fort McMurray plant actually used the process to produce three car ...
(The oil field crosses the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, as do the production facilities.) [24] The Kindersley area in south-central Saskatchewan produces light crude oil using hydraulic fracturing from Saskatchewan's portion of the Bakken Formation , which also produces most of North Dakota 's oil.
Construction on Bitumount, an experimental site dedicated to separating bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands, begins. [6] December 14, 1929 Alberta Natural Resources Act passed, transferring control of natural resources and Crown land to Alberta. [7] 1931 Alberta government levies its first royalty, at five percent, on oil and gas production.
The energy industry provided 7.7% of all jobs in Alberta in 2013, [7] and 140,300 jobs representing 6.1% of total employment of 2,286,900 in Alberta in 2017. [11] The unemployment rate in Alberta peaked in November 2016 at 9.1%. Its lowest point in a ten-year period from July 2009 to July 2019, was in September 2013 at 4.3%. [12]