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World oil prices leaped skyward in 1979-80 and remained high for the first half of the 1980s. This helped Syncrude become successful financially as well as technically. Syncrude now meets about 14 per cent of Canada's oil requirements, mostly in the form of synthetic oil. The plant has produced nearly 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m 3) of this oil
Shell Canada Limited (French: Shell Canada Limitée) is the principal Canadian subsidiary of British energy major Shell plc and one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. Exploration and production of oil , natural gas and sulphur is a major part of its business, as well as the marketing of gasoline and related products through the ...
A list of gas station chains in Canada: Canadian Tire Petroleum (Canadian Tire Gas+) – over 300 stations across Canada; most located next to Canadian Tire retail stores or at service centres such as ONRoute; Chevron Corporation – under license by Parkland Corporation (British Columbia, Alberta) Domo Gasoline – 80 stations in western Canada
In 1957, it donated the site for the construction of the Oil Museum of Canada; the museum opened in 1960 and continues to operate today. Both refineries that Canadian built still exist. Shell Canada has continued to use the Sarnia refinery since 1962. The Bowden oil refinery closed in 2001, although the gas processing plant continued to run.
Shell Canada — Canadian division of UK-based Shell; Defunct convenience stores: Mac's Convenience Stores; BP Canada; ... Nordstrom Rack Canada — Department store;
The Shell Scotford Upgrader is an oilsand upgrader, a facility which processes crude bitumen from oil sands into a wide range of synthetic crude oils. The upgrader is owned by Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), a joint venture of Shell Canada Energy (60%), Marathon Oil Sands L.P. (20%) and Chevron Canada Limited (20%).
On June 4, 2010, Shell Canada officially announced they would downgrade the refinery into a terminal, following unsuccessful attempts to find a buyer to take over the plant. [ 2 ] The Montreal East Refinery run by Gulf Oil Canada Ltd. is a small refinery located inside the Coastal Petrochemical fields.
Western Canadian Select (WCS) is a heavy sour blend of crude oil [1] that is one of North America's largest heavy crude oil streams [2] and, historically, its cheapest. [3] It was established in December 2004 as a new heavy oil stream by EnCana (now Cenovus), Canadian Natural Resources, Petro-Canada (now Suncor) and Talisman Energy (now Repsol Oil & Gas Canada). [4]