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February 19
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Over 1,500 people attend official dedication ceremonies in San Francisco for the recently-completed Alberta-California pipeline project
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February 23
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Shell Canada's Waterton gas plant comes onstream
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February 27
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Alberta Premier Ernest Manning says his government is prepared to accept many, but not all, of the recommendations contained in an oil and gas law revision committee report, including a reduction in lease terms from 21 years to 10
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February 28
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Jack Gallagher announces that a deal to sell all of Dome Petroleum's producing assets to Sinclair Canada Oil Company has been terminated because the company could not obtain a satisfactory tax opinion from Revenue Canada
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March 19
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Proved reserves of liquid hydrocarbons rose by 532 million barrels to 4.74 billion in 1961, the highest increase in Canadian oilpatch history
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March 26
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Canadian production of oil and liquids increased 18% in 1961 while gas production jumped 46% over 1960
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April 9
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The largest, single gas export project to the United States moves forward with a special act of Parliament incorporating Polaris Pipe Lines, the project consists of 1,200 miles of pipe from northeast B.C. to the the U.S. border near Estevan, Sask., and then to the U.S. Midwest
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April 25
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British Columbia passes the 20,000 barrels a day output for the first time in February and sets new highs in drilling activity and gas production
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June 4
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Pacific Petroleum and TransCanada Pipelines announce $27 million plans for a natural gas liquids plant, the largest in the world, at Empress, Alberta
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June 27
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Western Rock Bit recently organized to manufacture , assemble and distribute rock bits n Canada, a direct result of a 1961 federal trade study in which oilfield equipement manufacturing was considered
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August 6
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DOB anaylzes Shell's offer for Canadian Oil Companies Limited, the nation's largest Canadian-owned intergrated oil company
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September 27
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Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Board approves Great Canadian Oil Sands project
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