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January 12
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First court appeal of an Albertan Arbitration Board ruling backfires resulting in almost five-fold increase in the award to the farmer-landowner
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March 1
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Commercial Solids Pipe Line Company gets Dominion charter to build and operate Canada's first major solids pipeline; Shell Canada Limited principal backer of $50 million project
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March 6
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Past President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Michel T. Halbouty, warns Russians may be eyeing Middle East reserves as a "petroleum route to world control"
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May 6
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Syncrude Canada Ltd. proposes 50,000 barrel per day, $190 million synthetic oil recovery plant at Fort McMurray
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May 13
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Lewis G. Weeks, internationally-known oil consultant, estimates Athabasaca tar sands contain 1.5 billion tons of recoverable sulphur, representing 42% of world reserves
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May 29
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British American Oil seals an historic chapter in Canadian oil industry with plans to plug and abandon Calgary Petroleums Products No. 1 well, later known as the "Dingman Well", which have been seeping oil into the Sheep River
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July 8
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Carl Nickle says the Shaheen Refinery plan by Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland is ingenious but detrimental to national interest
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July 11
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First phase of a new unit-train system for shipping bulk sulphur begins with a 50-car shipment heading from Calgary to Vancouver; about 1.5 million tons of crude sulphur are expected to be moved annually under reduced freight rates for multiple car shipments
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July 22
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Industry expects Prudhoe Bay to stimulate Northern Canadian exploration and speed transportation development
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October 7
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First oil producer in Western Canada, Waterton Park's Lineham-Patrick-Lesson (1902) will be commemorated in October
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Decmeber 31
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Gross industry revenues increased 7.7% over 1967 to a record $1.3 billion; oil and liquids production increased 11.9% to over 435 million barrels and gas production increased 11.9% to 4.7 billion cubic feet a day; sulphur production rose to 2.95 million long tons, up to 36%
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