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Imperial Oil Limited () is a Canadian
petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. The term ''petroleum'' refers both to naturally occurring un ...
company. It is Canada's second-largest integrated oil company. It is majority-owned by American oil company
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, with a 69.6% ownership stake in the company. It is a producer of
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,
diluted bitumen Dilbit (diluted bitumen) is a bitumen diluted with one or more lighter petroleum products, typically natural-gas condensates such as naphtha. Diluting bitumen makes it much easier to transport, for example in pipelines. Per the Alberta Oil Sands B ...
, and
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. Imperial Oil is one of Canada's major petroleum refiners and
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producers. It supplies
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-brand
service stations Service station may refer to: * Filling station, a gasoline or petrol station * Automobile repair shop, a place where automobiles are repaired * Service centre or rest area, a public facility on motorways or controlled-access highways for resti ...
. Imperial owns 25% of
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, which is one of the world's largest
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operations. It also has holdings in the
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, and operates the Kearl Oil Sands mining operation with ExxonMobil. Imperial Oil is headquartered in
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,
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. It was based in
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,
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, until 2005. Most of Imperial's production is from its
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holdings in the
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oil sands Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are either loose sands, or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, soaked with bitumen (a dense and extremely viscous ...
and the
Norman Wells Norman Wells (Slavey language: ''Tłegǫ́hłı̨'' "where there is oil") is a town located in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. The town, which hosts the Sahtu Regional office, is situated on the north side of the Mackenzie Riv ...
oil field in the
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. Imperial Oil was ranked 34th in the Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI) for 2021 out of 120 mining, oil, and gas corporations that extract resources north of the
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.


History


Founding and early years

In April 1880,
Jacob Lewis Englehart Jacob Lewis Englehart (November 2, 1847 – April 1, 1921) was a Canadian-American business magnate, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Englehart is best known for his role in the formation of Imperial Oil in 1880 to combat the growing influence ...
and 16 prominent oil refiners in
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, and
Petrolia, Ontario Petrolia is a town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is part of Lambton County and is surrounded by Enniskillen, Ontario, Enniskillen Township. It is billed as "Canada's Victorian Oil Town" and is often credited with starting the Petroleum in ...
, formed Imperial Oil in response to
Standard Oil Standard Oil Company was a Trust (business), corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founde ...
's growing dominance of the oil market. Englehart aimed to emulate
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and merge the entire Canadian oil industry into one conglomerate. Although the majority of Ontario's top oil producers agreed to join in the enterprise, exceptions included
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, who was then Canada's largest oil producer, and
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, founder of the Canadian Oil Company. Englehart and the refiners established Imperial Oil as a
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with a capitalized value of $500,000. In addition to Englehart, the original shareholders included Frederick A. Fitzgerald, Isaac and Herman Waterman, William Spencer and his sons William and Charles, Thomas and Edward Hodgins, John Geary, Joseph Fallows, John Minhinnick, William English and John Walker. Together, the shareholders possessed twelve oil refineries and controlled 85% of the refining capacity in Canada. Fitzgerald and Englehart were the two largest stakeholders in the company and were named the president and vice president, respectively. Imperial Oil's charter noted that its goal was to "find, produce, refine and distribute petroleum and its products throughout Canada." Despite its early successes, Imperial Oil struggled to make a profit and issue dividends in the early 1880s. The discovery of new oil fields in
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and
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drove down the price of oil, and the creation of the Standard Oil Trust resulted in an increase of American oil imports into Canada. In a move to boost
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prices, Imperial closed down ten of the twelve refineries it had acquired through the merger, leaving only the Silver Star refinery in Petrolia and the Victor works in London. In 1883, the Victor works was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, and under Englehart's direction, the company concentrated its refining efforts at Petrolia.


Herman Frasch and the sulphur dilemma

In 1884, Imperial Oil purchased the exclusive use of
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's
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patent, which was more efficient at separating crude oil into usable products. Imperial initially offered Frasch $10,000 and Imperial Oil stock, but he persuaded the company to offer him a salary that matched Fitzgerald's and a seat on the Board of Directors. Frasch had taken the position primarily to supervise the installation of his refining method at the Silver Star refinery and resigned in February 1885 once the work was complete. Frasch then joined John Minhinnick in forming a separate venture called the Empire Oil Company. The pair purchased an idle refinery in
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, and Frasch began experimenting on a way to remove the sulphur content in the oil pumped at
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. The high sulphur content in Canadian oil placed it at a disadvantage compared to the oil mined at Pennsylvania due to its "distinctive odour" when burned.Sutton, William. (1984) ''Herman Frasch (PhD Thesis''). Louisiana State University. p. 82. Canadians called the product "skunk oil". Between 1885 and 1887, Frasch discovered that mixing copper oxide with the oil during the distilling process would remove the sulphur content and odour from the refined product. By this time, Standard Oil had also become interested in the desulphurization process after moving production to oil fields in Ohio that had a similar sulphur content to Lambton County. In 1886, Standard Oil persuaded Frasch to return to the United States and join their company by offering "a salary higher than that of any other scientist in the country" and an exchange of his shares in the Empire Oil Company for an equivalent amount in Standard Oil. After returning to the United States, Frasch perfected his desulphurization strategy, and Standard Oil held a monopoly on the process until 1905.


The 1890s and the Standard Oil buyout

Despite rising revenue and growth in the 1890s, Imperial Oil faced continuing challenges in its markets, primarily from Standard Oil, which operated a series of subsidiary companies across Canada. Although Imperial dominated the Western Canadian market, the company could not establish a strong foothold in the
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or
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as Standard supplied these regions through long-term contracts with local companies. While the Conservative Party's
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had stopped Standard Oil from fully entering the Canadian market, the economic policy came under attack by Standard Oil lobbyists and Canadian consumers, who asked for a cheaper and higher quality product. In 1893, Ottawa reduced
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on refined oil products from 7.2 cents to 6 cents per
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, and in 1896, Wilfrid Laurier's government reduced the tariff again to 5 cents. Additionally, Laurier removed restrictions on tank cars and tank steamers, allowing foreign companies to bulk ship oil into Canada by rail or sea. Before, foreign companies had to repackage their product into oil barrels before entering Canada, adding roughly five cents in shipping and handling charges to each gallon of imported oil. In 1895, Imperial Oil's Board of Directors began negotiations to sell the company to the
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, a British company. After three years, the deal collapsed, and the Board of Directors instead chose to sell the company to Standard Oil. The agreement specified that Standard Oil would acquire 75% of Imperial Oil's shares, Imperial Oil would acquire all of Standard Oil's Canadian subsidiary companies, Imperial's capitalization would be increased to $1 million, and Imperial shareholders would receive a dividend of $93,000. Following the deal, Imperial Oil shut down the Silver Star refinery in Petrolia and moved its refining operations to Sarnia, Ontario.


Later years

In a landmark 1911 anti-trust case, the
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ordered Standard Oil to break up into 34 separate companies. Ownership of Imperial Oil, as well Standard Oil's other subsidiaries outside the U.S., were all transferred to only one of those 34 successor firms, Jersey Standard (later renamed
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). Imperial Oil discovered the Leduc Woodbend
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oil reef in 1947, marking the beginning of the contemporary period in Canadian oil and gas development. Drilling began on the landmark discovery well Leduc No. 1 on November 20, 1946. In 1989, Imperial Oil acquired
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's Canadian operations. When Exxon and
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merged in 1999 to form
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, the combined company continued to maintain Mobil's Canadian operations as a separate subsidiary, independent of Imperial Oil.


Film and television

From the 1934-35 season through the 1975-76 season, Imperial Oil was a sponsor of the
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program ''
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'' for both
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and
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broadcasts. Esso, which had three stars on their signs, sponsored ''Hockey Night in Canada'''s three stars of the game. In the same era, the company was also involved in film production, providing funding for independent documentary films.
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in Calgary holds a large collection of Imperial Oil's film inventory.


Leadership


President

# Frederick Ardiel Fitzgerald, 1880–1889 # Frank Quarles Barstow, 1889–1908 # Horace Chamberlain, 1908–1911 # Walter Clark Teagle, 1914–1918 #
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, 1918–1919 # Charles Orrin Stillman Jr., 1919–1933 # Gilead Harrison Smith, 1933–1944 # Richard Vryling LeSueur, 1944–1945 # Henry Hugo Hewetson, 1945–1949 # George Lawrence Stewart, 1949–1953 # John Rigsby White, 1953–1960 # William Osborn Twaits, 1960–1970 # John Archibald Armstrong, 1970–1974 # Richard Gavin Reid Jr., 22 April 1974 – 21 July 1975 # John Archibald Armstrong, 21 July 1975 – 1979 # James George Livingstone, 1979 – 31 September 1982 # Arden Ramon Haynes, 1 October 1982– 21 April 1988 # Robert Byron Peterson, 21 April 1988 – 31 August 1992 # Ronald Alvin Brenneman, 1 September 1992 – 1994 # Robert Byron Peterson, 1994 – 31 December 2000 # Timothy James Hearn, 1 January 2001– 31 December 2007 # Bruce Harold March, 1 January 2008 – 28 February 2013 # Richard Michael Kruger, 1 March 2013 – 17 September 2019 # Bradley William Corson, 17 September 2019 – 31 March 2025 # John Ronald Whelan, 1 April 2025 – present


Chairman of the Board

# Frederick Ardiel Fitzgerald, 1889–1905 # Gilead Harrison Smith, 1944–1945 # Richard Vryling LeSueur, 1945 # Frank Willis Pierce, 1945–1947 # George Lawrence Stewart, 1947–1949 # Henry Hugo Hewetson, 1949–1950 # George Lawrence Stewart, 1953–1955 # John Rigsby White, 1960 # William Osborn Twaits, 1970 – 22 April 1974 # John Archibald Armstrong, 22 April 1974 – 30 June 1981 # Donald Kenneth McIvor, 1 July 1981 – 23 April 1985 # Arden Ramon Haynes, 23 April 1985 – 31 August 1992 # Robert Byron Peterson, 1 September 1992 – 23 April 2002 # Timothy James Hearn, 23 April 2002– 31 March 2008 # Bruce Harold March, 1 April 2008 – 28 February 2013 # Richard Michael Kruger, 1 March 2013 – 31 December 2019 # Bradley William Corson, 1 January 2020 – 8 May 2025 # John Ronald Whelan, 8 May 2025 – present


Retail

Imperial Oil supplied more than 2,000 service stations as of October 2020, all of which were owned by third parties. It sold its remaining 497 stations in 2016 to retailers such as
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(mostly Ontario and Quebec),
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(mostly Alberta and
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), Parkland, Harnois (Quebec) and Wilson Fuel (
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). In the late early 1990s Imperial Oil had acquired retail operations from
Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Independ ...
's Canadian unit Texaco Canada Incorporated. With ExxonMobil having majority ownership, Imperial Oil licences its parent company's brands, including the
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and
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names for service stations, and the
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electronic payment system. Until 2018, Imperial Oil was a member of the rewards program
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. On March 13, 2018,
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announced that it had reached a deal for the Esso-branded stations to join the
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rewards program, beginning on June 1, 2018. Loblaw Companies had sold its network of 213 gas stations (all of which are attached to its various grocery store locations) to
Brookfield Business Partners Brookfield Business Partners L.P. is a publicly traded limited partnership and the primary public vehicle through which Brookfield Corporation, its parent company, owns and operates the business services and industrial operations of its privat ...
in 2017; Brookfield entered into an agreement with Imperial Oil to use the Mobil brand for these stations. As part of the sale agreement, these stations also continue to participate in PC Optimum.


See also

*
Dartmouth Refinery The Dartmouth Refinery is a former oil refinery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, owned by Imperial Oil. It was located on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour, and the crude oil arrived via ship. It covered some south of central Dartmouth, with the n ...
* Nanticoke Refinery *
Strathcona Refinery The Strathcona Refinery is an oil refinery located in Strathcona County adjacent to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, owned by Imperial Oil. The refinery provides oil products, primarily gasoline, aviation fuel, diesel, lubricating oils, petroleum waxes ...
* Sarnia Refinery *
Imperial Oil Building The Imperial Oil Building, now known as Imperial Plaza, is a skyscraper located at 111 St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 21-storey building was completed in 1957 as the headquarters of Imperial Oil, Canada's largest oil com ...
(former Toronto headquarters building) *
Nuns' Island gas station The Nuns' Island gas station was a modern architecture, modernist-style filling station in Montreal built in 1969 from a project of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Closed for several years, it was later converted to a community centre. It was the fir ...
, an Esso station designed by
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pionee ...
in 1969 * Ioco, Port Moody


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