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Directory of chemical companies and resources for the chemical industry.
Chemical companies of Canada :
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Agrium
Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU TSX: AGU) is a major Retail supplier
of agricultural products and services in North and South America, a leading
global Wholesale producer and marketer of all three major agricultural nutrients
and the premier supplier of specialty fertilizers in North America through our
Advanced Technologies business unit. Agrium’s strategy is to grow across the
value chain through acquisition, incremental expansion of its existing
operations and through the development, commercialization and marketing of new
products and international opportunities.
Agrium was founded as Cominco Fertilizers, Ltd. in 1931 and changed its name to
Agrium, Inc. in 1995. Agrium is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Agrium U.S.
Inc., a subsidiary company, is based in Denver, Colorado and is the location of
Agrium's retail head office.
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Bennett
Environmental
Bennett Environmental Inc. (TSX: BEV, AMEX: BEL) is a
Canadian company based in Oakville, Ontario. It specializes in the recovering of
soils contaminated with chlorinated hydrocarbons, including PCBs and PCPs,
Dioxins and Furans. The company was founded in 1991 and has 60 employees.
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Builders Energy
Builders Energy Services, is an income trust that provides
oilfield services through labour and specialized equipment to oil and gas
producers in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) related to the
on-going servicing of producing wells and the completion of new wells.
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Connacher Oil
and Gas
Connacher Oil and Gas Limited (TSX: CLL), headquartered in
Calgary, Alberta has a 100 percent interest in almost 90,000 acres (360 km²) of
oil sands leases at its Great Divide oil sands project near Fort McMurray,
Alberta. In June 2006, Connacher received approval from the Alberta Energy and
Utilities Board to implement a steam-assisted gravity drainage scheme for the
production of bitumen at the project pending an Order in Council and subject to
certain conditions. Connacher also has conventional oil and natural gas
production (3,300 bbl/day) from properties in Alberta and Saskatchewan,
including those resulting from the acquisition of Luke Energy Ltd., which closed
in early 2006. Luke Energy Ltd. is largely a natural gas producer with good
growth potential and properties physically proximate to Great Divide at Marten
Creek. Luke also held properties at Three Hills, Alberta. Connacher also
recently acquired an 8,300 bbl/d (1,320 m³/d) refinery located in Great Falls,
Montana. Refinery expanded to 10,500 bbl/day. Connacher presently owns 31
percent of and manages Petrolifera Petroleum Limited (TSX - PDP), which has
interests in Argentina and Peru.
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Eveready
Income Fund
Eveready Income Fund (TSX: EIS.UN), is a growth-oriented
income fund headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta that operates in the industrial
and oilfield services sectors of North American.
Eveready Income Fund operates in Canada and the United States. They have a
significant presence in the Fort McMurray oil sands through their Eveready Fort
McMurray operation and in the Cold Lake oil sands through their Eveready
Bonnyville operation. The company provides services to the oil and gas,
forestry, mining, manufacturing, and power generation industries.
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Gotham
Industries
Gotham Industries Inc. is a Canadian chemical manufacturer
and distributor based in Ste-Thérèse (near Montreal), Canada since 1973.
They manufacture solvents, paints and automotive liquids.
They distribute their chemical products, throughout the Canadian market and
parts of the United States under their brand name or by customer private label.
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Imperial Oil
Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière
Impériale Limitée) (TSX: IMO AMEX: IMO) is Canada's largest petroleum company.
The company is engaged in the exploration, production and sale of crude oil and
natural gas. It is controlled by ExxonMobil, which owns 69.6% of its stock.
Imperial owns 25% of Syncrude Canada Ltd., the world's largest producer of
synthetic crude oil from strip mining of oil sands. Imperial Oil operates
service stations in Canada under the trade name Esso as well as other brand
names. Its owned-and-operated convenience stores use the On the Run / Marché
Express or Tiger Express brands.
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Irving Oil
Irving Oil is a privately owned gasoline, oil, and natural
gas producing and exporting company. It is also one of the only energy companies
in Canada to publicly support the Kyoto Accord. Irving Oil has plans to build
the first new crude oil refinery to be built in North America in over 25 years
with a refining capacity of 300 000 barrels a day. Its headquarters are in Saint
John, New Brunswick.
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NOVA
Chemicals
NOVA Chemicals Corporation (TSX: NCX, NYSE: NCX) is a
leading plastics and chemical company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with
Executive Offices in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1954. NOVA
Chemicals' products are used in a wide variety of applications, including food
and electronics packaging, industrial materials, appliances and a variety of
consumer goods.
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Petro-Canada
Petro-Canada (TSX: PCA, NYSE: PCZ) is a Canadian oil and
gas firm. Its headquarters are in the Petro-Canada Centre in Calgary, Alberta.
Petro-Canada was founded as a Crown Corporation in 1975 by an act of Parliament.
Most of the original Petro-Canada stations were British Petroleum Canada (BP
Canada) dealers, and BP disappeared from the retail scene in Canada soon after.
Later, Petro-Canada acquired the Canadian retail stations of Gulf and Fina.
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Petrolifera
Petroleum
Petrolifera Petroleum Limited (TSX: PDP), headquartered in
Calgary, Alberta is a Canadian oil and gas company engaged in exploration and
production activity in South America. Petrolifera’s production base stems from
its 100 percent-owned Puesto Morales/Rinconada Concession in the Neuquen Basin,
Argentina. In late 2005 and early 2006, several significant light oil
discoveries were made on this concession.
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Shell Canada
Shell Canada Limited is the subsidiary of Europe-based
Royal Dutch Shell and one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies.
Exploration and production of oil, natural gas and sulphur is a major part of
its business, as well as the marketing of gasoline and related products through
the company's approximately 1,800 stations across Canada. The corporation's head
offices are in Calgary.
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Sherritt
International
Sherritt International (TSX: S) is a Canadian energy
company, based in Toronto, Ontario. It is involved in nickel and cobalt mining,
thermal coal production, oil and gas exploration and production, and electricity
generation. Sherritt is one of the largest foreign investors in Cuba, and the
Canadian company with the largest business interests there.
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Steeplejack
Industrial
Steeplejack Industrial is an Edmonton, Alberta based
company that provides industrial scaffolding, insulation, asbestos abatement and
other related civil and industrial services.
Steeplejack Industrial has a customer base composed of pulp and paper mills, oil
refineries, gas plants, chemical plants and power generating stations, as well
as new construction and expansion projects. The company also provides shutdown
and day-to-day maintenance services to a growing list of its industrial clients.
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TerraVest Income Fund
TerraVest Income Fund (TSX: TI.UN), is a publicly traded
income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated
objective is to provide stable and increasing cash returns to its unitholders.
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