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Since the oil industry's earliest days, discovery and production have periodically taken a human toll. For Canada's petroleum industry, the worst incident was the Ocean Ranger disaster of 1982. In that terrible tragedy the Ocean Ranger, a semi-submersible offshore rig drilling the Hibernia J-34 delineation well, went down in a winter storm. The ...
Most of the other offshore production was in the province of Nova Scotia, which produced 438 cubic metres per day (2,750 bbl/d) of natural gas condensate from its Sable Island offshore natural gas fields in 2015, or about 0.07% of Canada's petroleum. [11] Offshore oil drilling and production at Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose fields off ...
The offshore oil industry of Nova Scotia accounts for about 0.07% of Canadian petroleum production. The majority of its offshore industry is located on the Nova Scotian continental Shelf, within the Sable Island offshore natural gas fields. In 2015, Nova Scotia produced 438 m 3 of liquid natural gas per day.
Although the conventional oil and gas industry in western Canada is mature, the country's Arctic and offshore petroleum resources are mostly in early stages of exploration and development. Canada became a natural gas -producing giant in the late 1950s and is second, after Russia, in exports; the country also is home to the world's largest ...
Hibernia oil field. Hibernia is an oil field in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 315 kilometres (196 mi) east-southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, in 80 m of water. [1]: 35–36. 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 ...
Offshore drilling. Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the ...
Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 267 kilometres (166 mi) east of St. John's, Newfoundland, for Mobil Oil of Canada, Ltd. (MOCAN) with 84 crew members on board when it sank.
Offshore Dream: A History of Nova Scotia's Oil and Gas Industry (2010) Peter McKenzie-Brown, Bitumen: the people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands, CreateSpace ISBN 9781546452300; Peter McKenzie-Brown; Gordon Jaremko; David Finch (15 November 1993). The great oil age: the petroleum industry in Canada. Detselig Enterprise.