• Alberta's Natural Resources—Heritage Community Foundation
• CKUA Radio Network
• Alberta Environment
• Alberta Community Development—Cultural Facilities and Historical Resources Division
• Alberta Research Council
• Petroleum Communication Foundation
• Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre
• Reynolds-Alberta Museum
• Friends of Reynolds-Alberta Museum Society
• Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation
• Cheryl Croucher
• Copyright

Design Team
       

• Soil and Agriculture
  • Agriculture Today
    • Soil Formation
    • Soil Classification
    • Crops
    • Agricultural Lands
    • Agricultural Intensity Map
    • Calcification
    • Acid Leaching
  • Agents of Change
    • Soil Erosion
      • Wind Erosion
      • Water Erosion
    • Pesticides
      • Fungicides
      • Herbicides
      • Insecticides
    • Soil Salinity
  • Development
    • Seeding
      • Direct Seeding
      • No-Till Seeding
    • Irrigation
      • Surface Irrigation
      • Surface Runoff
      • Border Irrigation
      • Deep Percolation Loss
    • Harvesting
      • Swathing
      • The Combine
      • Harvest Conditions
    • Future Directions
      • Alternative Fuels
      • Alternative Straw Use Industry
      • Sustainable Growth
  • Soil Distribution Map
• Hydrocarbons
  • Exploration
    • Before Drilling
    • Cuttings and Cores
    • Oil and Gas Traps
  • Coal
    • Coal Characteristics
      • What is Coal?
      • Coal in Alberta
    • Resource Development
      • Open Pit Mining
      • Strip Mining
      • Surface Mining
      • Dragline
      • Cleaning Up
    • Coal Distribution Map
  • Crude Oil
    • Conventional Crude
    • Crude Oil Markets
    • Land Use
      • Economic Calculation
      • Negotiations
      • Stakeholders
      • Surface Rights
    • Development
      • Drilling
        • Rig Anatomy
          • Circulating System
          • Conventional Drilling
          • Hoisting System
          • Top Drive Drilling
        • Stages of Drilling
        • Well Control
          • Blowout Preventers
          • Abandonment and Reclamation
          • Critical Sour Gas Wells
          • Logging and Testing
          • Environmental Safety
      • Completion and Servicing
        • Cementing
        • Perforation
        • Producing Oil and Gas
        • Pumping
        • Stimulation
        • Coiled Tubing
        • Recovery
          • Enhanced Oil Recovery
          • New Drilling Techniques
    • Oil Distribution Map
  • Oil Sands Resources
    • Heavy Oil Characteristics
      • Algae, Bacteria and Bitumen
    • Resource Development
      • Mining Extraction Process
      • Oil Sands Mining Projects
      • In-Situ Bitumen Recovery
        • Cyclic Steam Stimulation
        • Steam—Assisted Gravity Drainage
        • Production Technologies
    • Oil Sands Distribution Map
  • Natural Gas
    • Resource Development
    • Major Gas Deposits
    • Petrochemicals
    • Natural Gas Distribution Map
• Forests
  • Old-Growth Forests
  • Agents of Change
    • Insects and Disease
      • Insects
      • Disease
    • Pesticides
    • Forest Fires
    • Harvesting on Private Land
    • Increased Access
  • Resource Development
    • Harvesting
      • Ground Rules
      • Habitat Fragmentation
    • Future Directions
      • Alternative Logging 
      • Forest Activity
      • Increased Timber
      • Genetics
  • Forest Regions Map

   

• Leduc: Causes and Effects
  • Leduc: Causes and Effects
    • Leduc Historically
    • An Agricultural Community
    • Discovery of Black Gold
    • Growth of Leduc
  • Setting the Stage: Before 1947
    • Early Exploration
      • Turner Valley
      • Dingman Well
      • Hell's Half-Acre
      • Royalite Era
      • Norman Wells
    • Geological Factors
      • Underground Mysteries
      • Early Exploration
      • Drilling
    • A Growing Reliance
    • Wartime
  • 1947: Oil Strike!
    • Oil Strike
      • Leduc No. 1
      • Formation of Devon
    • Mechanics
      • Finding the Oil
      • Technology Used
    • Future Changed
      • Alberta
      • Canada
  • Results and Consequences
    • Post 1947
      • Leduc Globally
    • Petroleum Clubs
      • Calgary Petroleum Club
      • Desk and Derrick Club
    • Geophysics
• Places to Go
  • Hydrocarbons
    • Bankhead
    • Bellevue
    • Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre
    • Frank Slide Interpretive Centre
    • Leitch Collieries
    • Nordegg Interpretive Centre
    • Oil Sands Discovery Centre
    • Turner Valley Gas Plant
  • Agriculture and Forestry
    • Battle River
    • Breton Plots
    • Brooks Aqueduct
    • Brownvale Museum
    • Fairview Museum
    • Grain Academy
    • Model Forest
    • Reynolds—Alberta Museum
    • Whitecourt Forest Interpretive Centre
• Technology Through Time
  • Soil and Agriculture
    • Breaking Land
      • Dry Land Challenge
      • Different Dry Land
      • Machinery
      • Traction Problem
      • Traction Solution
    • Haying
      • Horse Haying
        • Dump Rake
        • Sweep Rake
        • Stacking Hay
        • Baling Hay
      • Tractor Haying
        • Sweep Raking
        • Stacking
        • Tractor Baling
    • Steam Threshing
    • Vignettes
  • Oil Sands
    • The Beginning
    • Road Materials
    • Karl Clark Report
    • Separation Plant
    • Divide and Conquer
    • Separating Sand
    • Bitumount Plant
  • Crude Oil and Gas
  • Coal
    • Coal Investigations
    • Mine Sampling
    • Coal Cars—1
    • Coal Cars—2
• Alberta's Heroes of Resource Development
  • Agriculture Heroes
    • Andrew Briosi
    • Charles Noble
    • Edward Shimbashi
    • John Toogood
    • John Wallace
    • William Fairfield
  • Forestry Heroes
    • Colonel James Walker
    • Peter Anthony Prince
    • Reverend Leonard Gaetz
  • Hydrocarbon Heroes
    • Karl Clark
    • Martin Nordegg
    • RC Fitzsimmons
    • Sidney Ells
    • Ted Link
    • Vern Hunter
• Early Industry: Case Studies
  • Breton Plots
    • History of the Breton Plots
    • Location: Why Breton?
  • Coal Mining in the Edmonton Area
    • Early Mining
    • Humberstone Mines
    • Humberstone and Technologies
    • Expansion and Regulation
    • Coal Boom
    • Effects on Landscape
    • The Beginning of the End
    • The End of Edmonton Coal Mining
  • Forestry Case Studies
    • Work Camps
    • The Men Who Made the Lumber
    • Bow Valley Beginnings
      • Eau Claire
      • Logging Declines
    • Beginnings in Central Alberta
      • Small Vs. Big
      • Great West Lumber Company

       

• Alberta Research Council: Profile
  • Starting Small
  • The War Years
  • A New Era
• Research and Innovation
  • Oil Sands
    • Karl Clark Process
    • Heavy Oil Extraction
    • Cold Production Recovery
    • Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
    • Remote Sensing System
    • Remote Vision System
  • Soil and Agriculture
    • Insect and Disease Control
      • Biocontrol Technologies
      • Disease-Resistant Crops
      • Greenhouse Pest Control
    • Agricultural Innovations
      • Land Reclamation
      • Internet-Based Food Management
      • DNA Fingerprinting
      • Manure Application
  • Oil and Gas
    • Cold Production
    • Flow System Technologies
    • Clay Gels
    • Fuel Dyes
    • Seismic Exploration
  • Forestry
    • Sustainable Fibre Initiative
    • Online Resin Cure Detection
    • Online Process Analyzers
    • Paper Making Laboratory
    • Infrared OSB Measurement System
    • Online Quality Control System
• Resource Protection
  • Agriculture
    • Crop Management
    • Field Shelterbelt Program
    • Land Productivity
    • Responsible Pest Management
    • CASCI
    • CAESA
    • AESA
  • Forestry
    • Ecological Management
    • Forest Fire Protection
    • Forest Inventories
    • Reforestation
  • Hydrocarbons
• Issues
  • Forestry and Sustainable Development
  • Future of the Coal Industry
  • CSA-Approved Forests?
  • Land Use: Forestry Vs. Oil
  • Hydrocarbons and Sustainable Development
  • The Kyoto Agreement
  • Carbon in the Boreal Forest