Pipe Cleaner
PETROCHEMISTRY
An oilfield worker from BP Exploration first noticed the acrid smell while driving near the...
Read More >>Drilling into Canada’s Petroleum History
PETROCHEMISTRY
James Miller Williams, a carriage maker from Hamilton, Ont. and the founding father of Canada’s petroleum industry, was drilling for water in 1858 when he struck...
Read More >>Target on methane
PETROCHEMISTRY
A high-efficiency incinerator at Cenovus Energy’s terminal near Edmonton destroys all noxious hydrocarbon emissions as tank cars are loaded with crude oil. Photo credit: Questor Technology Decades before climate change became...
Read More >>Risky Business
PETROCHEMISTRY
In the run-up to the May 2013 provincial election in British Columbia, Premier Christy Clark announced an optimistic new economic plan. One of the major planks in her platform was...
Read More >>Pipe dream
PETROCHEMISTRY
The Aframax-class tanker — 245 metres long and loaded with oilsands bituman piped in from Alberta — pulls away from the marine terminal at Burnaby, BC, moving through Burrard Inlet past Stanley Park.
Read More >>Tracking the chemical fracking controversy
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
The line of wheat waving in a field in the Alberta countryside is broken abruptly by a dark earthen wall. Packed in behind this berm are more than a dozen...
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