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June 2
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Texaco Exploration Company/McColl Frontenac make their first major find in Alberta in 11 years of exploration, Texaco Wizard Lake No. 2 is the first Western Canadian oil discovery with commercial volumes in three separate zones
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June 5
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Alberta introduces new sliding scale royalty system
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June 6
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Shell Oil Company of Canada officially opens its new 25,000 barrel per day refinery in Montreal
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June 9
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DOB survey finds 130 geophysical parties are at work in Western Canada, an all time high
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June 22
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Manitoba Premier D.L. Campbell officially opens Imperial Oil's new $10 million Winnipeg refinery by closing a switch and sending gasoline gushing into a nearby tank car, the refinery is equipped with Western Canada's first catalytic cracking unit
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June 23
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Drilling activity in Western Canada sets record with 165 rigs at work
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August 23
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Construction begins on Shell Oil of Canada's sulphur extraction plant at Jumping Pound
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September 11
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Alberta Mines Minister N.E. Tanner announces special regulations to encourage private capital to explore and develop Alberta's "fabulous and so far uneconomic" Athabaska tar sands
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November 30
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Canadian Oil Scouts Association formed in Medicine Hat by scouts from Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Montana and North Dakota
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December 14
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Canadian Board of Transport Commissioners approves construction of the $80 million Trans Mountain pipeline across the Rockies, four days later Canadian Bethel Limited awards Calgary's Mannix Limited and Toronto's Comstock Midwestern Limited the construction contract with operations expected to start by early 1952
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December 20
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Texaco Bonnie-Glen No. A-1 wet gas discovery opens up 173 feet of D# Coral reef
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December 28
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DOB reports Western Canadian rig activity (220 drilling) and geophysical crews (153 working) are at record levels
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December 31
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Over $200 million was spent on upstream activity in 1951, a record for the sixth consecutive year; 108 discoveries were recorded including the first oil finds in Manitoba and BC
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