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The Pembina oil field is one of the largest and most prolific conventional oil fields in the province of Alberta, Canada. [ 1 ] The mature field is centered on Drayton Valley and is named for the Pembina River , which crosses the region from southwest to northeast.
Edmonton's slogan "The Oil Capital of Canada" was instituted in 1947 and is the city's only slogan to be officially adopted by Edmonton City Council. [9] [10] As of 2020, a number of businesses in the Edmonton metropolitan region continue to employ the oil city nomenclature such as Oil City Crane Service, Oil City Energy, Oil City Signs, and Oil City Vapes. [11]
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]
This is a list of oilfield service companies – which provide services to the petroleum exploration and production industry but do not typically produce petroleum. In the list, notable subsidiary companies and divisions are listed as sub-lists of their current parent companies.
source for market cap, [4] source for profit. Data rounded to nearest million. . By market cap, Crescent Point Energy is the largest Canadian oil company never to make the global 500 list, according to Forbes ; Encana, Talisman Energy last made the Fortune 500 list in June 2011; Cenovus Energy dropped out December 2013.; CNRL 2013 annual production was estimated to be 671,162 bbl (106,706.2 m ...
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Structures on the grounds of the Sherritt complex in Fort Saskatchewan. Alberta's Industrial Heartland (also known as Upgrader Alley or the Heartland) is the largest industrial area in Western Canada and a joint land-use planning and development initiative between five municipalities in the Edmonton Capital Region to attract investment in the chemical, petrochemical, oil, and gas industries to ...
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 ...