BP Canada

BP Canada Energy Company is a Canadian oil and gas company that is a subsidiary of British-owned BP plc (formerly British Petroleum). It began operations in 1948 and for many years was in retail operations until they were acquired by Petro-Canada in 1982. In 1971, BP Canada acquired Supertest Petroleum, a Canadian oil and gas company.

BP Canada was created over the years from merger and spin-offs of number of companie

• Dome Petroleum
• Amoco
• Crestar Energy
• CANMAR
• Syncrude
• Oils

BP retail operations disappeared from Canada in the early 1980s when they were sold to Petro-Canada, which was at the time owned by the Government of Canada.

BP gas station in Toronto, ca. 1979

Today BP operates as producer of natural gas and has operations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, East Coast and in the North. Its headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta with 1400 employees.

See also

• BP plc, the parent company

References

• About BP Canada

External links

• BP Canada
• BP Canada Power
• BP