Petroleum

Alberta's oil sands represent a vast and untapped oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for the next 475 years. With an estimated 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil at stake, the quest to develop this natural resource has been undertaken by many powerful actors, both nationally and internationally. Using research …

With a focus on the North American Arctic, Pipeline Dreamsdiscusses how dreams of extracting resource wealth have beensignificant in influencing and shaping relations between indigenous andnon-indigenous peoples, as well as for the opening up of northernfrontier regions to economic development. Pipeline Dreamslooks at the emergence of the circumpol …

Roughnecks, Rock Bits, and Rigs is a detailed study of an important and little-documented area of the history of oil and gas in Alberta. It is the first comprehensive study to focus on the technologies that made Alberta's oil industry viable. Author Sandy Gow provides an in-depth look at the evolution of oil well drilling technology from 1883 throu …