RE:RE:RE:RE:Why Canadian do not have refineries to supply Canadians the subject of building more refineries is hard to understand for the general public as they want instant solution for a problem that had compouded for decade. You see, we have had lot of refineries in canada but due to environmental, and cost cutting reasons, most of them were shut down and mothballed. Year commissoned - capacity (I'm not sure if capacity are in bo/day or m3/day)
Refineries That Have Been Closed Down In Canada
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- 1970 Husky Oil Ltd. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan 1954 560
- 1971 Gulf Oil Canada Ltd. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1933 1 180
- 1971 Gulf Oil Canada Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta 1951 2 000
- 1975 Imperial Oil Edmonton, Alberta 1948 6 000
- 1975 Imperial Oil Winnipeg, Manitoba 1951 3 400
- 1975 Imperial Oil Regina, Saskatchewan 1916 4 880
- 1975 Imperial Oil Calgary, Alberta 1923 3 370
- 1976 Petro-Canda Products Inc.* Come-By-Chance, Newfoundland 1973 15 900
- 1976 Northern Petro Div Cdn Propane Gas & Oil Kamsack, Saskatchewan 1936 1 670
- 1978 Texaco Canada Inc. Port Credit, Ontario 1938 1 200
- 1980 Gulf Canada Ltd. Point Tupper, Nova Scotia 1971 12 870
- 1982 Texaco Canada Inc. Montreal, Quebec 1927 11 840
- 1983 Petro-Canda Products Inc. Montreal, Quebec 1960 11 280
- 1983 Gulf Canada Ltd. Calgary, Alberta 1939 2 050
- 1983 Gulf Canada Ltd. Kamloops, British Columbia 1954 1 510
- 1983 Imperial Oil Ltd. Montreal, Quebec 1916 13 200
- 1983 Shell Canada Ltd. St. Boniface, Manitoba 1927 4 770
- 1983 Shell Canada Ltd. Oakville, Ontario 1963 7 000
- 1983 Ultramar Canada Inc. Holyrood, Newfoundland 1961 2 220
- 1984 Texaco Canada Inc. Edmonton, Alberta 1951 4 451
- 1986 Gulf Canada Ltd. ** Montreal, Quebec 1931 11 770
- 1991 Petro-Canada Products Taylor, British Columbia 1960 2 460
- 1992 Turbo Resources (Pay Less Holdings) Balzac, Alberta 1982 4 565
- 1993 Petro-Canada Port Moody, British Columbia* 1958 5 902
- 1993 Petro-Canada Mississauga, Ontario* 1943 6 600
- 1993 Shell Canada Ltd. N. Burnaby, British Columbia 1932 3 820
- 1994 Ultramar Canada Inc. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1963 3 498
- 1995 Imperial Oil Ltd. Port Moody, British Columbia 1915 7 000
- 1996 Imperial Oil Ltd. Norman Wells, Northwest Territories 1921 600
- Suncor Oakville Refinery
- Petro-Canada Products
- Oakville, Ontario
- 13 200
- Commissioned: 1958
- Closed: 2005
- Shell Montreal Refinery
- Shell Canada Products
- Montreal, Quebec
- 20 000
- Commissioned: 1933
- Closed: 2010
- Parkland Refining Ltd.
- Bowden, Alberta
- 1 033
- Commissioned: 1960
- Closed: 2012
- Imperial Oil Ltd.
- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- 13 514 M3/day
- Commissioned: 1918
- Closed: 2013
- Bowden Refinery
- Dartmouth Refinery
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Business has changed, canada is producing less and less light oil, we are net importer of light oil. A lot of people don't believe that canada import oil as well. Without going into long discussion, the decision made by oil companies to pipe expanding heavy oil production to the US is a correct one. Even with hindsight today, i would still choose to send heavy oil to the US for refining. For the duration from proposal to completion of TMX, USA had built gizillion more miles of pipelines and several lng terminals.Back in 2012, canada was WAY WAY WAY ahead in LNG planning, desgin and signed development agreements with japan, china, south korea, malaysia but then came 2015, true dough, we dithers, and lost that lead. USA, australia, qatar, indonesia, algeria, mozambique, etc just to name a few, all built many LNG export terminals while canada hasn't got 1 operational yet. Why are we even talking about buildng refinery???