PICTURES OF DOWN TOWN CALGARY

 

Talisman Energy / Nexen Inc Calgary Oil Companies

Written by Admin on September 13, 2010.

                                                                        Talisman Energy
     Talisman Energy has main offices in Calgary; however it does operation in many other countries.  The company drills for oil and natural gas mainly in North America and North Sea, as well as South-eastern Asia.
                                                                            Nexen Inc
   Nexen Inc has offices in Calgary, Alberta however it works all around the globe. Most of its drilling operations are done in countries such as Canada, North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Yemen. Three areas of its work are oil sands, conventional oil and unconventional gas.  Nexen Inc works with oil sands mainly in Athabasca region which is one of the largest oil reservoirs in the world.

Popularity: 51% [?]

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Imperial Oil Calgary Oil Company

Written by Admin on September 12, 2010.

   Imperial Oil is probably the largest oil company in Canada which has its headquarters in Calgary. Company mostly produces natural gas and crude oil and does most of its drilling operations in Alberta as well as in Northwest Territories. The company divides itself into three divisions: Upstream, Downstream and Chemical.
  Upstream division does exploration, extraction and marketing of natural gas and crude oil. The other two divisions are concerned with refining and producing petrochemicals.

Popularity: 48% [?]

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Husky Energy Calgary Oil Company

Written by Admin on September 12, 2010.

    Husky Energy is one of the largest oil companies in Canada which has main offices located in Calgary. It does operation in many other countries besides Canada, such as: US, China and Greenland. However company mostly works in Western Canada, producing natural gas and oil.  Besides working with conventional oil, Husky Energy also works with heavy oil as well as oil sands. Husky Energy also does some offshore operations mainly off Newfoundland coast. Additionally to oil extraction company owns many refineries across the globe and a couple of ethanol producing plants.

Popularity: 59% [?]

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Suncor Energy Calgary Oil Company

Written by Admin on September 8, 2010.

   Suncor Energy is Canadian Oil Company which is mostly works with Alberta oil sands, mainly in an Athabasca region. Additionally to developing oil sands Suncor Energy also produces natural gas and as well heavily investing in a renewable energy sources such as wind power.  Most of its profit company gets from recovering oil from oil sands, which involves complex process of heating the oil sand containing oil and after that collecting oil. However heating is not the only way to extract oil from oil sands.  The other half of its profits company gets from the natural gas. Suncor Energy develops conventional as well as unconventional gas reservoirs.
   Since merging with Petro-Canada, Suncor created many job positions. The company is hiring Professionals (People who have lots of experience in working in an oil field), trades people ( individuals whose main task is to operate machinery) and students/graduates ( those are the young individuals who are very educated but don’t have much experience in the industry).
  If you want to work for Suncor Energy, you can see their job openings at the Suncor’s website here: http://www.suncor.com/en/careers/510.aspx

Popularity: 42% [?]

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Calgary Oil Companies

Written by Admin on September 8, 2010.

        Calgary is the oil capital of Canada, which is located in a southern part of Alberta. Many oil companies have offices in Calgary, since it is a very convenient location because it is very close to major oil reservoirs as well as US border.  Alberta has enormous amounts of oil confined under its surface.  However the reserves of usual oil are just a small part of the total amount of oil Alberta has in its oil sands. Here is the list of some Calgary Oil Companies:
Nexen Inc
Enerplus Oil&Gas Ltd
Apache Canada Ltd
Suncor Energy Inc
Canadian Natural Resources Limited
ConocoPhillips Canada
Murphy Oil Company Ltd
Husky Oil Operations Ltd
Encana Corporation
BP Canada Energy Company
Talisman Energy Inc
Penn West Petroleum Ltd

CALGARY THE CITY OF DREAMS

 Canada's Oil Capital CITY OF CALGARY

Immediately after the Second World War, Calgary went through an economic decline. With the war industries shut down and men returning from overseas, the city was characterized by record unemployment and a severe housing shortage. These conditions were exacerbated by a continuing trend of rural depopulation, whereby residents of rural areas and smaller towns were moving to larger urban centres like Calgary. But one important event changed Calgary's fortunes almost over night. On February 13, 1947, oil was struck near Leduc, Alberta. Imperial Oil's Leduc #1 well revived Alberta's depleting oil industry and marked the beginning of Calgary's transformation from a service centre to a true urban metropolis. Most notably, Calgary would go on to become the Canadian headquarters for the oil and gas industry.
The post-war population of Calgary was a modest 125,000. By 1965, that number would reach 325,000. Calgary's economy was transformed by the oil industry during the 1950s when American companies began flooding to Alberta in search of drilling rights. Because of the management role that Calgary had played during the tumultuous Turner Valley oil strikes, Calgary was chosen as the headquarters for the petroleum industry, despite Edmonton's geographic proximity to Leduc. Wealthy American companies began buying up Calgary's real estate, and for a time, Calgary became the fastest growing city in Canada. The impact on Calgary's downtown was dramatic-many of its historical sandstone buildings were replaced with high-rises owned by petroleum industry giants like Imperial Oil, Shell, Gulf, Texaco and Pacific Petroleum. One of the most prominent office towers at the time was the 11-storey Barron building erected by real estate tycoon J.B. Barron. The Barron building contained offices, retail space, a restaurant, a movie theatre, and the Barron penthouse with a rooftop garden. Many of the new skyscrapers were concentrated along 7th, 8th, and 9th streets joining 9th Avenue, aptly nicknamed Petroleum Row. This development was the beginning of a trend by which the downtown core became a single-use, high density district.
The suburbanization of Calgary was another prominent feature in describing Calgary's post-war building boom. Young, wealthy Calgarians were looking for large, spacious homes that were centrally-heated and could accommodate the latest appliances. Calgarians preferred bungalows complimented by front and backyards thus causing average lots sizes to increase. In response, city planners advocated the Neighborhood Unit plan, which combined residential development, park space, retail, and schools, into an enclosed non-grid street system with limited access to freeways.
Beginning in the 1950s, private developers like Nu-West began to rapidly build these neighbourhood units. In 1949, building permits had reached a new high of 21.8 million dollars. Nearly 6000 new homes were constructed in the four years following the war. Surrounding these bungalows were strip malls and shopping centres. The first indoor mall in Calgary was the Simpson-Sears North Hill Mall, built in 1958. Two years later, western Canada's largest mall, the Chinook Centre, opened in Calgary, followed by the Southridge Shopping Centre in 1963. Calgary also saw the development of several drive-in theatres, a new football stadium in 1960, and the South Alberta Institute of Technology in 1958. All of these developments were shifting life from Calgary's downtown core, to the suburbs.
Calgary was a city transformed. Both in the suburbs and downtown architectural modernism ruled, with functionality and progress at the centre of it all. Historic buildings were rapidly torn down in favour of the practical, the progressive, and the large. Suburban sprawl issues faced by Calgarians today have their roots in this era. Calgary rapidly expanded its territory, annexing suburbs and fringe communities. In 1953, Calgary annexed a large territory to the north, and then in 1956, the city spread south and west. Several outlying municipalities were annexed - Forest Lawn in 1961, Montgomery in 1963, and Bowness in 1964.
Amidst the territorial expansion, Calgary's real estate industry thrived. Jack Rich and Ervie Jackson held the biggest real estate firm in Calgary in the post-war period. Women also started to join the field; Evelyn Hinds started a firm while Paramount REALTORS® were comprised entirely of female real estate agents. The 1950s ushered in an era of change throughout the industry; for the first time, real estate specialization became the norm.