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  British Columbia, BC - Canada Real Estate Directory
British Columbia is Canada’s third largest province in area and population, behind Québec and Ontario.
British Columbia is Canada's gateway to the Asia-Pacific and is economically and geographically part of the northwest region of North America.
Petroleum and natural gas are extracted in the northeast, and new large natural gas reserves have been located in the sedimentary rocks of this area, which already supplies markets in southern Canada and the northwestern United States by pipeline.
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  Petro-Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canada's large oil reserves had long been under the control of American corporations who geared most of their production towards the American market, and sent their profits south.
It quickly grew to be one of the largest players in the traditional oil fields of the west as well as in the tar sands and the East coast offshore oil fields.
Today Petro-Canada is Canada's 24th largest company with important interests in such projects as Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose; its gas stations remain a presence in most Canadian cities.
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 Group of 78   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canada and Sudan: A scout and an envoy
Representing Canada in the International Partners Forum (IPF), she was at a June 20 meeting in Oslo developing strategies for speeding up the often stalled peace talks of the International Authority on Development (IGAD) in Sudan, which was established by states in the area to try to work out a settlement.
Canada had supported the Sudanese Women's Conference sponsored by the Netherlands government in April, bringing women together across the dividing lines of north, south, African, Arab, Christian, Muslim, and animist to agree on a common platform of action for peace.
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 British Petroleum Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BP Canada began operations in 1948 and for many years was in retail operations until Petro-Canada emerged in 1975.
BP retail operations disappeared from Canada in the early 1980s and replaced by Petro Canada outlets.
Today BP operates as producer of natural gas and has operations in Alberta, British Columbia, East Coast and in the North.
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 ipedia.com: Petroleum Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Petroleum (from Latin petrus–rock and oleum–oil) or mineral oil is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of Earth's crust.
The abiogenic petroleum origin theory is based upon large amounts of carbon existing in the planet, some of which are hydrocarbons.
Petroleum's worth as a portable, dense energy source (powering the vast majority of vehicles (automobiles, trucks, trains, ships, aircraft) and as the base of many industrial chemicals makes it one of the world's most important commodities.
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 Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Britain’s overseas possessions (see British Empire) were augmented by the victorious outcome of the War of the Spanish Succession, ratified in the Peace of Utrecht (1713).
Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
The Conservative governments of Churchill and his successor, Anthony Eden (1955), were beset by numerous difficulties in foreign affairs, including the nationalization (1951) of British petroleum fields and refineries in Iran, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya (1952–56), turmoil in Cyprus (1954–59), and the problem of apartheid in South Africa.
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 Privatization and Globalization of Energy Markets: Profiles of Petroleum Privatizations in OECD Countries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
British Petroleum, for instance, is the largest producer of crude oil in the United States.
British Petroleum is also the sixth largest U.S. refiner and is among the top ten branded marketers of gasoline in the United States.
British Petroleum is currently 17 percent held by U.S. investors, up from 6 percent ownership as recently as 1991{see Endnote 20}.
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 Canada (01/06)
Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and has been an active member, hosting the OAS General Assembly in Windsor in June 2000, and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.
Canada is a strong proponent of the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of anti-personnel mines.
Canada is a significant source for the United States of marijuana, as well as precursor chemicals and over-the-counter drugs that are used to produce illicit synthetic drugs.
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 British Columbia Links
The majority of British Columbia's inhabitants are of British origin, but the population is enriched by immigrants and descendants of immigrants of all nationalities.
The Aboriginal population of British Columbia, which began to decline with the arrival of the first European settlers, is enjoying new strength.
British Columbia continues to attract Canadians and foreigners alike: 22 000 persons settled in the province in 1998, and its population now exceeds 4 million - 13 percent of Canada's total.
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 Pacific EcoVentures, British Columbia, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: )
British Columbia is Canada’s most western province and is bounded on the west by the Pacific coast and on the east by the Rocky Mountains.
British Columbia’s topography is mountainous with substantial areas of inland plateau and lowland valleys.
British Columbia is characterized by the diversity of habitats including softwood forests, wetlands, meadows and grasslands and in coastal areas estuaries, inter-tidal to the continental shelf.
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 Canada
Canada, federated country of North America, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the northeast by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, which separate it from Greenland; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the United States; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
Canada has a total area of 9,970,610 sq km (3,849,652 sq mi), of which 755,180 sq km (291,575 sq mi) is covered by bodies of fresh water such as rivers and lakes, including those portions of the Great Lakes under Canadian jurisdiction.
Most of Canada's inhabitants live in the southern part of the country, and vast areas of the north are sparsely inhabited.
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 Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd., is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration company based in Calgary, Alberta.
It is engaged in the exploration for and development of oil and gas reserves in Canada.
Canada Southern trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol CSPLF and on the TSX under the symbol CSW
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 Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada - BP
In Canada, British Petroleum is active in natural gas exploration, development, production, marketing and trading.
The company also has a significant position in Canada’s natural gas liquids business and is active in petrochemicals, power marketing and trading, crude oil marketing and trading, and marketing of lubricants and jet fuel.
British Petroleum and its predecessors have been active in Canada for more than 50 years and currently employs 1400 people.
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 British Columbia 3 from Hospitality North, Prince George, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: )
British Columbia is famous for its spectacular mountains and beautiful coastal scenery, which are well represented in the many provincial and federal parks, including Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, and Pacific Rim national parks.
British Columbia is represented by 32 members in the Canadian House of Commons and by six senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general, in the upper house, or Senate of the federal government.
The formal chief executive of British Columbia is the lieutenant governor, who is appointed by the Canadian governor-general and who represents the British monarch in the province.
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 Library: Canada Facts: British Columbia
Canada Facts reproduced from the Education Canada Network.
In the 1960's British Columbia's hydroelectric power and industrial capacity was greatly increased with the signing of the Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada.
British Columbia has the most balanced export market of all Canada's provinces, with the United States, Japan, the European Union and the Pacific Rim countries as its clientele.
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 Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - British Columbia
Although British Columbia is Canada’s fourth largest crude oil producer at 60,000 barrels per day, provincial crude consumption exceeds its production, requiring the province to import crude oil to meet its needs.
British Columbia's Oil and Natural Gas Industry, a CAPP backgrounder, demonstrates how the industry is contributing to the province’s economy.
Industry activity in British Columbia is higher than ever before, tapping into the province’s relatively under-explored basins and emerging resources such as tight gas and natural gas from coal.
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 British Petroleum And Competition New Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BP (formerly British Petroleum and BPAmoco) is a petroleum company headquartered in the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco to avoid competition issues.
BP (formerly British Petroleum and BPAmoco) is a petroleum company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
BP (formerly British Petroleum and BPAmoco) is a petroleum company headquartered in London the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco to avoid competition issues.
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 British Petroleum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sometimes it applies to an area or territory currently or formerly under British rule, for example the British Virgin Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory or British Columbia, now a province of Canada.
Peoples generallyconsidering themselves to be British include the English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish (though many in Northern Ireland do not regard themselves as British), Manx, as well as the people in the nations of Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar and Bermuda.
Petroleum (from Latin petrus – rock and oleum – oil),mineral oil, or crude oil, sometimes colloquially called flgold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the upper strata of some areas of the Earth 's crust.
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 HCItasca: Petroleum Engineering Consulting
Petroleum exploration and production is unique in geotechnical engineering, in the extent to which it must rely on indirect observation and interpretation to assess and control field operations — carried out at considerable depth below surface.
Itasca's experience in the petroleum industry has centered around providing such understanding through problem solutions to critical aspect of petroleum exploration and production that are tied directly to the mechanical behavior of rock in and around reservoirs.
Through the Minnesota Petroleum Group (MPG), an informal cooperative venture between Itasca, rock mechanics faculty at the University of Minnesota, and MTS Systems Inc., Itasca can offer comprehensive RandD services that include an integrated approach of basic theoretical development, testing solutions, and numerical modeling.
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 Environmental Science & Monitoring - Dept. of Environment and Conservation
British Petroleum Canada (BP) opened the Hope Brook mine in 1988.
Iron Ore Company of Canada’s Carol Project, at Labrador City, mines approximately 38 million tonnes of crude iron ore per year from which 17 million tonnes of concentrate, and 21 million tonnes of tailings are produced.
Of that concentrate, approximately 4.5 million tonnes are sold and the remainder is used to produce 12 million tonnes of pellets.
www.env.gov.nl.ca /env/Env/PollPrev/industrial_compliance/mining.asp   (376 words)

  
 United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The UK has been a net exporter of crude oil since 1981; according to the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the largest destinations of crude oil exports in 2003 were the United States (31 percent), the Netherlands (26 percent), France (16 percent), and Germany (14 percent).
ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum have received regulatory approval for the South Hook LNG receiving terminal in Milton Haven, Wales.
The largest power producer in the country is British Energy (BE), which controls most of the nuclear power capacity and generates about 20 percent of the total electricity supply.
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 The BC Chamber of Commerce - The Voice of BC Business
The British Columbia Chamber of Commerce today released Closing the Skills Gap 2008.
VersaPay Establishes Partnership with The British Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
The British Columbia Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce it's partnership with VersaPay Corporation.
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 RIGZONE - Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd.(the "Company"), a Nova Scotia company, is engaged in the exploration for and development of oil and gas reserves in Canada.
The Company's principal asset is its 30% interest in the Kotaneelee gas field in the Yukon Territory which is the subject of prolonged and costly litigation.
Thursday, May 27, 2004 - Canada Southern Petroleum will participate in the proposed drilling of a development well in the Kotaneelee producing gas field and undeveloped acreage at Kotaneelee in the Yukon Territory to the extent of its 30.67% working interest.
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 Canada
Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and as of April 1, 1999, Nunavut).
At that time the population of Canada was almost entirely French, but in the next few decades, thousands of British colonists emigrated to Canada from the British Isles and from the American colonies.
By the British North America Act of 1867, the dominion of Canada was created through the confederation of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
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 Godlike Productions -- British Petroleum and New Orleans
British Petroleum Confirmed Largest Ever Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Field: BP announced that offshore areas leased by MMS had confirmed the largest oil and gas discovery ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
British Petroleum has taken over most of the refinery facilities in America, such as those once owned by Standard Oil of Indiana (Whiting, Indiana), later called Amoco, and now British Petroleum.
Furthermore, in one way or another, British Petroleum has a stranglehold on the bulk of the gas stations in the U.S. Part of it is through the British Monarchy´s arrangement with their former colony, Kuwait.
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 Introduction
They had claimed for years that the only risk to their project was in the southern war zone, and that peace was in any case close at hand.
The former UN Human Rights Rapporteur who worked on Sudan for years, Dr Gaspar Biro, has commented that if the oil companies don't know what is going on, they're not looking over the fences of their compounds.
Nonetheless, along with Canada, China and Malaysia, European countries are increasingly involved in Sudan's oil project.
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 British big on Canada - February 29, 2004 - Petroleum News
The shifting fortunes of major international players in Canada were reflected in the Feb. 16 deal by British-based BG Group to pay C$455 million for the Western Canadian assets of El Paso.
Formerly British Gas, BG, with interests in 20 countries, has returned to Canada after a decade-long hiatus, c....
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Willis Ambrose Medal and an honorary degree (LL.D.) from the University Of Calgary.
However, most of his professional career was spent with the Geological Survey of Canada; this included 11 years in managerial posts.
Brian is an acknowledged expert on Ordovican and Silurian rocks worldwide, and his numerous syntheses for the northern Yukon, the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and the northern Mainland region are particularly valuable because they reflect his global comprehension.
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 The Gulliver 78 BP/The British Petroleum Co plc - BP Dossier
By far Britain's largest company, with around 1500 subsidiaries (1) and a market capitalisation of little less than œ10,000,000,000 (œ9,482 million to be exact) (2), BP also has the world's greatest secure oil reserves (3) and is generally acknowledged to be "the best company in the world at finding oil" (4).
Incorporated in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Co (name changed to Anglo-Iranian Oil in 1935 and to British Petroleum in 1954), BP was half bought-out by the British government at the start of World War 1 to ensure oil supplies for the Royal Navy.
BP bought out troubled Dome of Canada's oil interests in 1982 (44) and two years later was on the point of bidding for Johnson Matthey, the precious metals and chemicals company partly owned by Anglo-American, a company with the sole refining rights to the world's largest platinum mine - Rustenberg in South Africa (45).
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