This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Oct. 24, 1978 article.
November 1, 2021, 9:26 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Sept. 20, 1974 DOB article.
October 25, 2021, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Sept. 19, 1973 DOB article. Syncrude and the Alberta government reach an agreement.
October 19, 2021, 8:38 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the Aug. 31, 1970, edition of the Bulletin: 1970 was expected to be Alberta’s first ever million bbls/d petroleum year.
October 12, 2021, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a July 14, 1969 article. Trans Mountain, majors join for special pipeline research on Mackenzie Valley Line.
October 4, 2021, 12 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Sept. 1, 1966 article, which highlights the Edson gas field.
September 27, 2021, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Dec. 13, 1965 edition of the Daily Oil Bulletin. Husky Oil Canada Ltd. plans new office building and towering spire in downtown Calgary.
September 20, 2021, 7:57 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Dec. 5, 1952 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. DOB founder Carl Nickle wrote: “The Interprovincial extension completes the basic pattern for a system of east-west pipelines designed to match growing oil reserves of Western Canada with economic markets from Ontario to British Columbia in Canada and the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes area of the United States.”
March 24, 2021, 7:42 AM MDT
The Trans Mountain pipeline at Burnaby was officially opened, climaxing a 1.5-year, $93-million construction program.
December 21, 2020, 12 AM MST
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Oct. 29, 1980 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. While industry sifts through the fine print of the federal government's budget and announced energy policy, the Bulletin highlighted major points pertaining to the resources industry together with preliminary reaction from the industry.
October 26, 2020, 2:52 PM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from an April 28, 1951 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. The Alberta government believes that the proposed Alberta-Pacific Coast crude oil pipe “should follow a route determined by a competent authority as the most economic and otherwise advantageous.”
July 29, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Dec. 31, 1948 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. The “Busy Beaver” Canadian oil industry can look back on 1948 and confidently state “the year was by far the greatest, on every count, in the half century history of the search for oil and gas in the west.”
July 20, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Dec. 6, 1948 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. Alberta’s hearings into natural gas reserves and consumption in the province came to Calgary (scroll down slightly to see the start of the article referenced here).
July 14, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a Feb. 14, 1947 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin. “In the small hours of this morning I shivered in a raw wind while my hand on the low pipe recorded the steady pulsating of oil heading for storage tanks and gas heading for the flare,” wrote DOB founder Carl Nickle, documenting the Leduc No. 1 discovery.
April 22, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from a 1947 article in the Daily Oil Bulletin (specific date is not included): Gulf Oil expands its operations in Alberta.
April 15, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the Nov. 1, 1946 Daily Oil Bulletin: Two important new wildcat drilling operations in the Leduc-Wetaskiwin area.
April 8, 2020, 8:55 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the April 15, 1946 Daily Oil Bulletin.
April 1, 2020, 6 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the Feb. 2, 1946, edition of the Daily Oil Bulletin. Blasting was slated in an attempt to rejuvenate a depleted well using a technique based on years of study.
March 11, 2020, 11:13 AM MDT
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the July 13, 1945, edition of the Daily Oil Bulletin.
March 3, 2020, 7:42 AM MST
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the Dec. 29, 1944 Daily Oil Bulletin. 1944’s record development brings important discoveries. Click here to access the story.
February 26, 2020, 8:30 AM MST
This week’s DOB Backstory comes from the Jan. 4, 1941 Oil Bulletin.
February 11, 2020, 11:38 AM MST
Over the past few weeks in the DOB Morning Briefing newsletter, we have been running a new feature that takes readers on a journey of the Daily Oil Bulletin’s archives, which span a period dating back to 1937.
January 28, 2020, 8:59 AM MST
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