Ontario’s Petroleum Legacy : The Birth, Evolution and Challenges of a Global Industry

Earle Gray

This book was made possible by the financial support of Charlie Fairbank and the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame, and the in-kind support of JuneWarren and the Petroleum History Society. [...] In the 1970s, he was director of public affairs for Canadian Arctic Gas, a consortium of major oil and gas companies that planned and researched a multi-billion dollar gas Ontario’s Petroleum Legacy: The Birth, Evolution, and Challenges It is most appropriate that he chose to complete the story pipeline from Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay of a Global Industry has been a labour of love not only for the with [...] Gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel are all made from crude oil, of course, and so was at the eastern end of the township where the “Great Enniskillen Swamp” was wet is the synthetic rubber in the tires of motor vehicles, bicycles, and the soles of shoes. [...] Despite the puzzle of the 30-foot depth, the evidence suggests that the Tripps summer and fall of 1851, and his report suggests that the Tripps might have beat were aggressively exploring at least the smaller, east gum bed in 1850. [...] In 1852, the year that the first of four applications were made to incorporate IMM, a large sample of the bitumen was dug and hauled— probably in early winter when the frozen ground made hauling easier—19 miles northwest to Sarnia on the St.