An Update on Training Delivery Within The Canadian Oil And Gas Industry: Oil And The Threat of a Splintered Canada

摘要

There are many good stories from the history of the petroleum industry in Canada. And it really was in Canada that today's global oil industry was born. Good stories that I've tried to do justice to in my book, The Great Canadian Oil Patch: The Petroleum Era from birth to peak. But I'm not going to tell those stories today. I'm not going to talk about how Abraham Gesner, the Nova Scotia farmer, horse trader, physician, geologist and chemist laid the industry's foundation with his process to produce kerosene from coal. Coal oil, they called. I'm not going to describe how James Miller Williams used Gesner's process and Gesner's help to produce coal oil from crude oil, much more cheaply, and how he established, right here in London and southwestern Ontario, the world's first integrated oil producing, refining and marketing business. I won't talk about the governor-general and his financier son-in-law who triggered 40 years of failure and bankruptcies before half a million acres of Alberta oil properties yielded one of Canada's biggest philanthropies. Nor about the 84 years of failures it took to tap the first commercial production from the Alberta oil sands, the world's largest oil deposit.