Industry Explained
Calgary and the oil patch: how a city became Canada's energy capital
From a Turner Valley gas well in 1914 to Leduc No. 1 and the oil sands: how a ranching town on the Bow River became the head office city of the oil patch.
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Industry Explained
Refining, crude grades, offshore platforms, history and the plain-language basics behind the headlines.
Industry Explained
Inside a refinery: distillation, cracking and the product slate
What happens to a barrel of crude between the tank farm and the truck rack: distillation, cracking, coking, hydrotreating, reforming, alkylation and blending.
Natural Gas & LNG
Natural gas from wellhead to burner tip, one step at a time
Follow one batch of gas from the well through gathering, processing, transmission, storage and the city gate to a stove, a power plant or an LNG export dock.