Where in the World Are Canadian Oil and Gas Companies? 2013 /

This report, as in the earlier reports in this series, provides an account of emerging trends and highlights variations in the level of global activities of Canadian oil and gas companies (hereafter O&G) for the 2013 year of study.2 In 2013, a total of 226 Canadian O&G companies engaged in global exploration and 1 The WIW project examines the global activities of Canadian oil and gas companies in [...] For a complete list of countries examined in the WIW project, refer to Appendix A. 2 The author would like to thank School of Public Policy research assistant Brian McCann for his contributions to the WIW project, specifically for sharing in the collection of 2013 data that are reflected in the contents of this paper. [...] The following section presents a detailed account of the international activities of Canadian E&P companies in 2013 in terms of two measures: scale of activity and total level of production. [...] Table 1 presents the number of active Canadian E&P companies in each region of analysis for the year 2013, while outlining the regional presence of companies for the previous year of study as way of comparison. [...] The presence of Canadian companies has also slightly increased in the remaining regions, with the exception of Africa, which experienced a minor drop in the number of active companies.