Timeline of the petroleum industry in Alberta
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Below is a brief timeline covering the history of the petroleum industry Alberta and its predecessor states.
Date | Event | Reference |
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1715 | 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. | [1] |
April 14, 1872 | Dominion Lands Act receives royal assent, granting mineral rights to settlers under certain conditions. | [2][additional citation(s) needed] |
1874 | George Mercer Dawson files the first government report of the oil sands when surveying for the International Boundary Commission. | [3] |
1902 | The drills the first oil producing well, Lineham Discovery Well No. 1, in Western Canada at Cameron Creek. | [3][4] |
September 1, 1905 | The Alberta Act creates Alberta as a province from the North-West Territories. Resource rights are still held by the federal government. | |
1914 | strikes oil starting an oil boom that subsides due to World War I. | [3] |
April 17, 1915 | Public Utilities Board is created by the Alberta government as the provinces first organization partially responsible for energy resources. The organization later spawns the , then the Energy Utilities Board, and is then split into Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Energy Regulator. | [5] |
1925 | 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. | [8][better source needed] |
1939 | Shell opens exploration offices in Alberta. | [9][better source needed] |
February 13, 1947 | Leduc No. 1 strikes oil starting Alberta's post-World War II oil boom. | |
1947 | ATCO is incorporated. | [10] |
June 1948 | Calgary Petroleum Club founded. | [11] |
April 30, 1949 | Enbridge incorporated by Imperial Oil as the Interprovincial Pipe Line Company. | [12][13] |
1950 | (currently Enbridge Line 1) constructed as the first large pipeline to carry Alberta oil. | [14] |
1951 | Alberta government announces the plant at Bitumount was able to separate bitumen from the oil sands profitably, following the research of Karl Clark. | [6] |
March 21, 1951 | Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited incorporated by Special Act of Parliament. In 2019, the company changed its name to TC Energy. | [15][better source needed] |
1953 | Husky Energy incorporated in Canada after splitting off from American counterpart | |
February 23, 1953 | Pembina No. 1 is drilled marking the first use of hydraulic fracturing in Alberta. | [16] |
October 17, 1953 | Trans Mountain Pipeline enters use as the first pipeline to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific. | [3][17] |
November 1959 | National Energy Board created to organize interprovincial energy infrastructure. | [18][better source needed] |
1965 | discovered by . | [3][19] |
1973 | 1973 Oil Crisis begins precipitated by Western involvement in the Yom Kippur War causes OPEC to embargo many Western countries, increasing the price and thus competitiveness of Alberta oil. | [20] |
October 22, 1979 | Nova Chemicals opens the first ethylene plant in Alberta to be used in plastic production. | [21] |
October 28, 1980 | National Energy Program is announced by the federal government, creating anger and resentment in the West and set to take effect on January 1, 1981. | [22] |
June 1, 1985 | takes effect, ending the National Energy Program. | [23] |
April 1, 1994 | AltaGas begins operations in Calgary. | [24] |
2001 | Cenovus Energy pilots the first use of the SAGD system, technology developed by the Alberta Crown corp, the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority at its Foster Creek location. | [25] |
September 29, 2004 | Imperial Oil announces headquarters move from Toronto to Calgary. | [26] |
May 29, 2018 | Trans Mountain Pipeline announced to be bought by federal government after the pipelines expansion faced ongoing regulatory delays for five years. | [27] |
June 21, 2019 | Canadian Energy Regulator Act receives royal assent, creating the Canadian Energy Regulator to replace the National Energy Board. | [28] |
February 6, 2020 | 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests begin as members of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation blockade a Canadian National Railway rail line just north of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. |
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- ^ "Mineral Ownership". Alberta Government.
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- ^ "100 years of service and counting". Alberta Utilities Commission.
- ^ a b "Bitumount".
- ^ "Alberta Natural Resources Act".
- ^ Varcoe, Chris. "When politics and oil collide". Calgary Herald.
- ^ "SHELL CANADA 100 YEAR MILESTONES". Shell.
- ^ "Our History". ATCO.
- ^ "History". Calgary Petroleum Club.
- ^ Gray, Earle (2008). Ontario's Petroleum Legacy: The Birth, Evolution and Challenges of a Global Industry. Heritage Community Foundation. p. 73. ISBN 9780973989229.
- ^ "Crude success: Enbridge". Pipeline International. June 2011. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
- ^ "Pipeline Profiles: Enbridge Mainline".
- ^ Sawyer, Deborah C.; Baker, Nathan (10 June 2021). "TC Energy (formerly TransCanada)". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada.
- ^ "History - Drayton Valley". Drayton Valley.
- ^ TransMountain (June 20, 2010), Oil Across The Rockies -PART 1.wmv.
- ^ "CER - Our History". Canadian Energy Regulator.
- ^ "Canada [History]". WikiTotal.
- ^ "Oil Shock of 1973–74". Federal Reserve History.
- ^ "About Ethylene 1 (E1)" (PDF). Nova Chemicals.
- ^ The Budget 1980 (PDF). 1980. p. 9.
- ^ "Budget Papers 1985" (PDF). Government of Canada.
- ^ "History | AltaGas". AltaGas.
- ^ "Foster Creek". Cenovus Energy.
- ^ Ebner, Dave. "Imperial Oil cites proximity as reason for head office move". Globe and Mail.
- ^ "Liberals to buy Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5B to ensure expansion is built". CBC News. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ "Canadian Energy Regulator Act". Government of Canada.
- ^ Spitters, John (February 7, 2020). "PHOTOS: Tyendinaga protesters stop train traffic". Quinte News. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
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