IMPERIAL OIL SLIDE COLLECTION – 1P-14c-(1971-1975)

IP-14c-71-77 Aerial view of Imperial Oil’s drilling site at Spring River, Yukon Territories. IP-14c-71-79 Imperial Oil’s drilling site at Spring River, Yukon Territories. IP-14c-71-83 Night view of Imperial Oil’s drilling site at Spring River, Yukon Territories. IP-14c-71-(99-104) Imperial Oil’s drilling site at Spring River, Yukon Territories. IP-14c-71-106 Night view of Imperial Oil’s drilling site at Spring River, Yukon Territories. IP-14c-71-(116,125) Research project of Mackenzie River Valley Pipe Line Research Limited near Inuvik, Northwest Territories. A number of oil companies, including Imperial Oil, are cooperating in a study of pipe line operations in permafrost and Arctic terrain. IP-14c-71-130 Research project of Mackenzie River Valley Pipe Line Research Limited near Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Lawrence Whitmore (left) and Robert Auld (right), Imperial Oil personnel from the company’s Calgary laboratories, take readings on the pipe line. IP-14c-71-132 Research project being carried out by Arctic Petroleum Operators Association to measure moving ice stresses on fixed structures. IP-14c-71-(146-148) Imperial Oil’s new gas processing plant at Quirk Creek, Alberta. Its capacity is 90 million cubic feet of gas per day. IP-14c-71-(172-174) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s gas processing plant at Judy Creek, Alberta. IP-14c-71-(176-177) Imperial Oil’s gas processing plant at Judy Creek, Alberta. IP-14c-71(190-191) General view of Imperial Oil’s Calgary refinery. IP-14c-71-(193,202) Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratories conducting research into pipe line movement of crude oils at temperatures below which crude oil flows naturally. IP-14c-71-(205-206) Voyageur restaurant and Esso service centre at Canmore, Alberta. IP-14c-71-(228-242) Overall view of Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. Some slides were eliminated so series is not complete. IP-14c-71-246 Engineers discussing Imperial Oil’s new Ioco construction. Refinery is in view in background. IP-14c-71-247 Imperial Oil’s voyageur station at Ganonogue, Ontario. IP-14c-71-(250-251) Imperial Oil’s voyageur station at Napanee, Ontario. IP-14c-71-(261-278) General views of lumber industry taken near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-((279-280) B. Dielisson, provincial sales manager, Poli-Twine Corporation (left), and Allan Black of Olympic Canvas and Rope, inspecting poli-twine bundle line in use at a lumber camp near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-283 B. Dielisson, provincial sales manager, Poli-Twine Corporation, inspecting poli- twine bundle line in use at a lumber camp near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-289 B. Dielisson, provincial sales manager, Poli-Twine Corporation, with a poli-twine boom chain in use at a lumber camp near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-292 Poli-twine boom chain being carried by a lumber worker over the boom at lumber camp near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-299 Poli-twine boom chain at lumber camp near Squamish, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-(304-306) Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. This photograph shows a seismic explosion. IP-14c-71-307 Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. This photograph shows a long range general camp scene with mobile camp trailers. IP-14c-71-308 Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. This photograph shows the recording vehicle. IP-14c-71-(309-310) Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. Photograph show Bombardier tracked vehicle used for laying geophones along the ground to record seismic explosions. IP-14c-71-311 Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. This photograph shows sun rising behind a snow-covered Arctic Willow. IP-14c-71-(315-317) Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. Photographs show work being carried out in the field with tracked vehicle and portable drilling rig used for drilling shot holes. IP-14c-71-(322-324) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s seismic party #23 during operations on Richards Island near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-71-(325-327) The “Imperial Sarnia” being loaded at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-71-360 Seismic drilling being carried out near Imperial Oil’s seismic exploration camp site on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-71-361 Aerial view of mountain range in the high Arctic. Probably en route to Imperial Oil’s seismic exploration camp on Axel Heiberg Island. IP-14c-71-362 Helicopter flying supplies to Imperial Oil’s seismic exploration camp site on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-71-(363-364) Imperial Oil’s seismic exploration camp site on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-71-365 Helicopter lowering supplies to Imperial Oil’s seismic exploration camp site on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-71-371 Geology students conducting a geophysical survey near Truro, Nova Scotia to determine the presence of minerals. Some 500 students were employed by Imperial Oil on summer work during 1971. IP-14c-71-372 Under the auspices of Dr. Blitz, Walt Yonkin is studying plants being grown under simulated Arctic conditions. This is part of research done by the University of Alberta on tundra re-vegetation which sponsored by Imperial Oil. IP-14c-71-381 Aerial view of the equipment stockpile at Imperial Oil’s exploration staging area at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Supplies and equipment rest on thick gravel pads which have been laid down to protect the tundra. IP-14c-71-(384,389) One of Imperial Oil’s chain of Econo stations – this one located on Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario. IP-14c-71-(390,392) Interior of automatic car wash at Railside and Lawrence Avenue East, Toronto. IP-14c-71-(398,402) Chemist D.W. Murray testing a sample of Unirex grease at Imperial Oil’s research laboratory, Sarnia, Ontario. Photograph shows the ASTM Penetrometer which is used to measure the consistency or hardness of grease. IP-14c-71-404 Laboratory technician William Nywening smoothing the grease surface prior to using the quarter-scale Penetrometer to measure the grease consistency or hardness. IP-14c-71-406 Chemist D.W. Murray testing a sample of Unirex grease at Imperial Oil’s research laboratory, Sarnia, Ontario. Photograph shows the ASTM Penetrometer which is used to measure the consistency or hardness of grease. IP-14c-71-(418,427) Canada’s first continuous unit train being loaded at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery for deliver to Douglas Point, Ontario. The train operates on a continuous 72-hour schedule. IP-14c-71-(438,444) Construction activity for the expansion of Imperial Oil’s Sarnia lubrication plant. The project will increase the refiner’s lubricating oil manufacturing capacity by 50%. IP-14c-71-(445-453) Art Martel carrying out research on red-backed voles and lemmings at Inuvik research laboratory. The two to three year study is partially funded by Imperial Oil Limited. All of the slides show red-backed voles except for the last one which shows a lemming which is grey in colour. IP-14c-71-(454-455) Seismic exploration being carried out in the Beaufort Sea by Imperial Oil during the summer of 1971. IP-14c-71-(464-465) General overall view of Imperial Oil’s refinery at Edmonton, Alberta. IP-14c-71-(467-469) Soil testing being carried out at Imperial Oil’s Edmonton refinery for construction of the new Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-71-473 Laboratory technician monitoring process that treats water from Imperial Oil’s Edmonton refinery before it is returned to the river as part of the company’s environmental protection activities. IP-14c-71-(474-479) General views of Imperial Oil’s Quirk Creek Gas Plant which came on stream in 1971. IP-14c-71-480 Some of the vessels which remove 240 tons of sulphur from 90 million cubic feet of natural gas per day at Imperial Oil’s Quirk Creek Gas Plant. IP-14c-71-(481-483) Control room at Imperial Oil’s Quirk Creek Gas Plant. IP-14c-71-484 Imperial Oil’s Quirk Creek Gas Plant. IP-14c-71-(485,494) General overall view of Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-71-(495-496) A large gas flow being measured during a drillstem test at about 8,000 feet, at Imperial Oil’s Taglu G-33 well located in the Mackenzie River delta, 70 miles northwest of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-71-500 Edmonton refinery employees practicing putting boom in place on North Saskatchewan River, as part of Imperial Oil’s oil spill containment and clean-up program. IP-14c-71-501 Researchers conducting experiments on the biodegradability of oil in Arctic conditions. Imperial Oil contributed to this research being carried out at the University of Calgary. IP-14c-71-(504-504B) Testing being conducted to determine the feasibility of towing icebergs away from drilling platforms in prospective offshore oil producing areas on Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. Imperial Oil with other companies sponsored the tests. IP-14c-71-509 D.R. Stahr conducting tests on Imperial Oil’s new $400,000 biochemical lagoon at its Winnipeg refinery. Waste water is treated in the lagoon before discharging into nearby Red River, Manitoba. IP-14c-71-510 Earl Perkins (left) and Larry Foran studying blueprints of new addition to Imperial Oil’s Redwater Gas Plant. IP-14c-71-(511,513) Imperial Oil’s Redwater Gas Plant where a new gas conservation plant went on stream in 1971. IP-14c-71-514 Employee in the Sulphur control room at Imperial Oil’s Redwater Gas Plant where a new gas conservation plant went on stream in 1971. IP-14c-71-515 Tug boat pushing a barge with supplies to Imperial Oil’s well at Taglu west, on Richards Island, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-71-(521-525) Drillers at work at Imperial Oil’s Taglu G-33 well on Richards Island, Northwest Territories. The well discovered natural gas and condensate in June, 1971. IP-14c-71-(526,533) Imperial Oil’s Mayogiak P-17 well on the Tuktoyaktuk Penninsula, which discovered oil and natural gas in May, 1971. IP-14c-71-(543,546) Abandoned oil drums and barrel crusher at Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. Some 70,000 drums bearing marking from all over North America, including the United States army, were brought in during the construction of the Canol project in 1942. Imperial Oil’s solution to this clean-up problem was to crush and bury them. IP-14c-71-(754-755) Unirex, Imperial Oil’s new long-lasting lubricant, being used by the Toronto Transit Commission. IP-14c-71-(560-562) Researchers at Imperial Oil’s research department in Sarnia, test automobiles’ crankcase ventilation valve following road test. IP-14c-71-(569-572) Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery with George Island in the foreground.

IP-14c-72-10 Aerial view of the Mackenzie Delta between Inuvik and Aklavik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-(11-13B) Aerial view of the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-26 Esso Chemical Canada’s ethylene facilities at Sarnia, Ontario, which are being expanded to meet rising demand. IP-14c-72-(28-32) Automatic sorting/packing station for PVC (polyvinyl chloride) bottles at Polybottle plant on Wilson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. IP-14c-72-(34,41) Construction activity for the expansion of Imperial Oil’s Sarnia lubricating oil plant. The project will increase the refinery’s lubricating oil manufacturing capacity by 50%. IP-14c-72-45 J.H. Johnston, Imperial Oil’s industrial hygienist, measuring noise levels at Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-49 General long-range view of Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery as seen from across Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-72-(52-53) Views of Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery as seen from across Burrard Inlet. IP-14c-72-58 Storage tanks at Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery. IP-14c-72-59 Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery looking over the new lagoon. IP-14c-72-62 Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery looking over the new lagoon. IP-14c-72-66 General long-range view of Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery as seen from across Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-72-68 General overall view of Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(72-81) General views of Sarnia refinery taken from the top of the coker structure. IP-14c-72-(82-83) Part of the light ends unit inside Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(84-87) Lube plant construction nearing completion at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(88-89) Looking towards benzene plant at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-90 Part of chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-91 Exterior view of the chemical control building at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(96-97) Part of the chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(103,105) New office building at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery housing both refinery and chemical personnel. IP-14c-72-106 Chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-107 View of the chemical complex from Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-108 Part of the chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-109 Chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery with the benzene plant seen in the background. IP-14c-72-112 Looking towards the benzene plant which is part of the chemical complex at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery. IP-14c-72-(114,118) Henry Ottenhof checking a soil settlement censor for leaks. Part of a pipeline research study being done to determine the feasibility of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Project. The study is being conducted by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-(119,123) Henry Ottenhof operating equipment used to measure soil thermal conductivity on the hot berm test module. Part of a pipeline research study being done to determine the feasibility of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Project. The study is being conducted by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-(124-128) Pipeline research to determine the environmental effects of operating buried and elevated pipe lines in the Arctic being carried out by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Sans Sault, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-129 Pipeline research to determine the environmental effects of operating buried and elevated pipe lines in the Arctic being carried out by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Sans Sault, Northwest Territories. On site is the resident engineer Nick Lenstra. IP-14c-72-132 Pipeline research to determine the environmental effects of operating buried and elevated pipe lines in the Arctic being carried out by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Sans Sault, Northwest Territories. Resident engineer Nick Lenstra is checking a California sunshine recorder on the site. IP-14c-72-134 Pipeline research to determine the environmental effects of operating buried and elevated pipe lines in the Arctic being carried out by Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited at their test facility at Sans Sault, Northwest Territories. On site is the resident engineer Nick Lenstra. IP-14c-72-135 Early construction of Imperial Oil’s artificial island in the Beaufort Sea, located 10 miles north of Richards Island. It sits in 10 feet of water, measures seven feet high above sea level and 300 feet across. It may be used as a drilling site if it can withstand the pressure of the coming winter. This photograph shows the operator in the control room. IP-14c-72-(136-141) Early construction of Imperial Oil’s artificial island in the Beaufort Sea, located 10 miles north of Richards Island. These photographs show the dredge pipe extending from the dredge of the island site. IP-14c-72-(147-148) Loading of supplies onto barges at Hay River, Northwest Territories. These supplies will float down the Mackenzie River to supply Imperial Oil’s Arctic operations. IP-14c-72-156 Loading of supplies onto barges at Hay River, Northwest Territories. These supplies will float down the Mackenzie River to supply Imperial Oil’s Arctic operations. IP-14c-72-161 Early construction of Imperial Oil’s new 750-ton tanker, the “Imperial Tofino.” She is scheduled to go into service moving oil products to the isolated towns, villages and logging camps on the British Columbia coast in 1973. It is being built at a cost of $2,000,000 by McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited of North Vancouver. IP-14c-72-(165,167) Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. These photographs show Dane Bridge, the party chief (left) and Angus Ghent, a summer student. IP-14c-72-(170-172) Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. These photographs show a helicopter ferrying supplies into the camp in the mountains and flying out garbage and empty propane tanks to be re-filled. IP-14c-72-173 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows a small two-man camp moving by helicopter to a new site. IP-14c-72-182 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows a helicopter bringing in personnel and supplies to the camp site. IP-14c-72-183 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows Dane Bridges (right) the party chief, and Angus Ghent, a summer student. IP-14c-72-184 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows Dane Bridges (left) the party chief, and Angus Ghent, a summer student. IP-14c-72-188 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows a helicopter bringing in personnel and supplies to the camp site. IP-14c-72-189 Mineral exploration being carried out on Vancouver Island. This photograph shows an aerial view of the camp location. IP-14c-72-(190-190B) Construction of Imperial Oil’s new 750-ton tanker, the “Imperial Tofino.” IP-14c-72-(194,196) Imperial Oil’s Ivik J-26 where oil and gas flowed to the surface on September 18, 1972. It is located on Richards Island in the Mackenzie Delta. IP-14c-72-(197-199) Depth sounding for harbour facilities to determine the possibility of ships to off- load supplies on the southern tip of Sherwood Peninsula on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-72-(200-202) Imperial Oil, Panarctic, Dome, et al’s Hoodo L-41, located on Ellef Ringnes Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-72-203 Imperial Oil’s artificial island in the Beaufort Sea nearing completion. IP-14c-72-(204-205) Drilling supplies being towed in Middle Channel down the Mackenzie River, north of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-206 Off-loading supplies at Camp Farewell, Northwest Territories. Located north of Bar-C IP-14c-72-207 A wood chopping machine for producing wood chips to protect the permafrost at Camp Farewell, Northwest Territories. This is the staging area for 1972-1973 producing. IP-14c-72-(208,212) Leigh Syms, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba, on an archaeological dig in south western Manitoba. He is on an Imperial Oil post-graduate fellowship. IP-14c-72-(214-221) Summer student program in Quebec to which Imperial Oil has given $61,000 to help fund 11 different projects. The program is administered by the Student Placement Service of the Quebec Department of Labour. The photographs show a student group working on an historical study of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec as well as a plan for an improved fund-raising campaign. Some slides were eliminated so series is not complete. IP-14c-72-222 Ted Breckner, soil scientist, characterizing the soils on Richards Island as part of an environmental study for Imperial Oil on Richards Island. IP-14c-72-(225,228) Ron Erikson, botanist, mapping the vegetation on Richards Island as part of an environmental study for Imperial Oil on Richards Island. IP-14c-72-(230,236) Bob Langford (left) and Arn smith (right) setting up a seine net to determine numbers, species and size of fish in the channels around Richards Island as part of an environmental study for Imperial Oil. IP-14c-72-240 Bob Langford (right) and Arn smith (left) setting up a seine net to determine numbers, species and size of fish in the channels around Richards Island as part of an environmental study for Imperial Oil. IP-14c-72-(242-243) Arn Smith carrying out fish research from a canoe as part of an environmental study for Imperial Oil on Richards Island. The implement in his hand is called an Ekman dredge which is used to obtain a bottom sample from the lake. IP-14c-72-(244-245) Imperial Oil’s Taglu C-42 wildcat well located on Richards Island in the Mackenzie River Delta about 70 miles north, northwest of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-(247,252) Views of Leduc oil field, Alberta. IP-14c-72-(257-258) Views of Golden Spike oil field showing horse head pump, Alberta. IP-14c-72-261 Redwater oil field showing gas plant and horse head pump, Alberta. IP-14c-72-264 Geophysicists Bill Carson (right) and John Wishart (left) examining the result of off-shore exploration at Imperial Oil’s office in Calgary, Alberta. IP-14c-72-265 Geophysicists Bill Carson (right), Wes Hatlelid (standing) and Tim Hawkings (left) examining the result of off-shore exploration at Imperial Oil’s office in Calgary, Alberta. IP-14c-72-(266-268) Construction being carried out on Imperial Oil’s new Strathcona refinery, Edmonton, Alberta. IP-14c-72-333 A fish researcher studying fish habitats, measures water depth in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-334 Aerial view of the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-72-338 Artist’s sketch of new 10-storey rental office building in mid-town Toronto, by Devon Estates, a subsidiary of Imperial Oil in association with North-American Life assurance Company. It is scheduled for completion in late 1973. IP-14c-72-(341-341A) Six million dollar hydrofiner at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery which was competed in 1972. IP-14c-72-(-342-343) Alkylation plant at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia refinery which was build tin 1972 at a cost of $17 million. IP-14c-72-344 Employees of the Calgary Exchange Sales and Services Company Limited which built some of the equipment for Imperial Oil’s Sarnia alkylation plant. IP-14c-72-345 Imperial Oil’s CF-IJR Lockheed Electra plane at Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

IP-14c-73-(2-2A) Mini-computer monitoring loading at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East marketing terminal. IP-14c-73-(3-3A) Imperial Oil’s artificial island in the Beaufort Sea nearing completion. The island is located 10 miles north of Richards Island. IP-14c-73-(7,9) “Imperial Skeena” approaching dock at Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-11 A supply sales customer taking on a load at Imperial Oil’s Finch Avenue bulk plant, Toronto, Ontario. Supply sales are responsible for sales to brokers and companies who re-sell products under other names. IP-14c-73-12B A tug pushing a “tow” of nine barges on its return trip from Hay River to Inuvik. The round trip takes 14 to 16 days. IP-14c-73-13 View of the pretty village of Fort Good Hope, the oldest settlement on the Mackenzie River. IP-14c-73-(14,15B) Refinery worker at Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-(16,19) Refinery workers at Ioco refinery with new sour water stripper in the background. IP-14c-73-20 Mokka fuel storage on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-73-21 Mokka Fiord staging area on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-73-22 Mokka well site on Axel Heiberg Island in the high Arctic. IP-14c-73-(23-24A) Men laying slabs of insulation to protect the permafrost on Hooper Island location in the Beaufort Sea. IP-14c-73-26 Twin Otter plane. IP-14c-73-(27-32) Imperial Oil’s Taglu C-42 well located on Richards Island in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories. It is located about 70 miles north, northwest of Inuvik. IP-14c-73-(34,34A) Mackenzie River barges. IP-14c-73-35 Mackenzie River scene near Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-(36-37) Aerial view of the town of Aklavik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-38 Aerial view of the town of Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-(39,39A) Aerial view of the town of Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories with Dempster Highway in the background. IP-14c-73-(40-41) “Imperial Nanaimo”, an Imperial Oil tanker built in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1937. It carries products from Ioco refinery around the British Columbia coast. IP-14c-73-42 Launching of “Imperial Tofino”, Imperial Oil’s new 750-ton tanker. It will go into service moving oil products to the isolated towns, villages and logging camps on the British Columbia coast in 1973. It was built at a cost of $2,000,000 by McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited of North Vancouver. IP-14c-73-(44-45) Shipyard workers at McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company, North Vancouver. IP-14c-73-50 Imperial Oil’s new Calgary Distribution Terminal under construction. IP-14c-73-(51-52) Draftsmen at Canadian Bechtel Limited. IP-14c-73-(54,55A) Professor James G. Goodale of York University who is working on an Imperial Oil study on the quality of life in organizations. IP-14c-73-(56,58) Student Ian Storey is studying Aristophanes. IP-14c-73-59 Aerial view of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-60 Environmentalist employed by F.F. Slaney who is heading environmental studies for Imperial Oil. IP-14c-73-62 View of Golden Spike field, Alberta. IP-14c-73-(63-65A) Flowers in bloom and fruit growing in the Mackenzie Valley’s brief, vivid summer. IP-14c-73-66 Cord moss (funaria hygrometrica) at Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, in late July. IP-14c-73-67 Bob Langford (left) and Arn Smith setting up a siene net to determine numbers, species and size of fish in channels around Richards Island, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-68 A pair of freshly- caught inconnu waiting to be cleaned and split on a fish-drying rack at Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-69 Interior view of Our Lady of Good Hope church at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. The church was started in 1865 by an Oblate lay brother named Patrick Kearny. IP-14c-73-(70-71) Valerie Whetung in the craft shop she set up in the summer of 1972 at the Curve Lake Indian reservation near Peterborough, Ontario. She was paid by an Imperial Oil Limited grant administered by the Ontario government. IP-14c-73-72 Aerial view of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-73 Imperial Oil geologist on Sedco 1. Built in Halifax, the semi-submersible platform is being used by Imperial Oil in association with another company to drill for oil in the Grand Banks area. IP-14c-73-(74-75) Cook dishing out food in the kitchen on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-(76-77) Under drill platform on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-78 Hole positon indicator on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-(79-80) Under Sedco 1, a diving bell is being lowered into the water. Divers will check the ocean bottom and make minor adjustments that may be necessary. IP-14c-73-(81-83) Part of the computer system in use on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-84 Photograph taken during a fire drill showing escape capsule on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-85 Helicopter bringing crew to Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-86 Rope matting to provide a secure landing for helicopter on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-(87-88) Supplies for kitchen on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-89 Supply ship that service drill rig at Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-(90-96) Drilling operations on Sedco 1. IP-14c-73-(100-103) General views of Mackenzie Valley Delta. IP-14c-73-109 Imperial Oil tanker being built at Port Weller Dry Docks Limited in St. Catharines, Ontario. IP-14c-73-(111-112) Crews at the Toronto Iron Works which builds vessels for refineries. IP-14c-73-113 Two researchers collecting marine shore samples as part of an environmental study being conducted at Richards Island in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-73-114 Toronto firm preparing equipment for Imperial Oil car washes. IP-14c-73-115 Imperial Oil products being packaged by employees of Linwo Industries Limited of Agincourt, Ontario. IP-14c-73-(116-118A) Peter Wells (white coat) and Dr. J.B. Sprague study the effects of oil on lobsters at the University of Guelph. Imperial Oil sponsored the study. IP-14c-73-119 Dr. J.H. Milsum, holder of the Imperial Oil Chair of General Systems at the University of British Columbia, is applying systems research methods to the problem of providing community health care. IP-14c-73-120 Imperial Oil’s Eric Musgrave sits as a Calgary alderman. IP-14c-73-121 A portion of Imperial Oil’s collection of Canadian art hanging at the Kitchener- Waterloo Art Gallery. Paintings and sculpture from the collection are available on request to galleries. IP-14c-73-(122-123A) View of 111 St. Clair Avenue West, Imperial Oil’s head office building in Toronto, Ontario. IP-14c-73-127 Early Imperial Oil office at Petrolia, Ontario. IP-14c-73-128 Early oil tank at Petrolia, Ontario. IP-14c-73-129 Early oil field at Petrolia, Ontario. IP-14c-73-(130-131) General views of Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-73-132 Night view of Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-73-(136-137) Vessels anchored at Resolute Bay before proceeding to Sherwood Head on Axel Heiberg Island where Imperial Oil is setting up a drilling camp. In the background is Imperial’s tank farm. IP-14c-73-(142-144) Immerk, Imperial Oil’s man-made island in the Beaufort Sea. A pioneering concept in Arctic exploration, the island was built as a platform from which to drill off shore in the search for new oil and gas sources. The structure was built in 10 feet of water with sand and gravel dredged up from the sea floor at a cost of about five million dollars. IP-14c-73-146 Early construction on Imperial Oil’s second artificial drilling island called ADGO. When completed, it will be 150 feet by 600 feet and is expected to cost about two million dollars. IP-14c-73-(147-148) Imperial Oil’s gas plant at Redwater, Alberta. IP-14c-73-149 Service rig working on reactivation of an old Imperial Oil well at Redwater field. IP-14c-73-(150-151) New Imperial Oil well at Redwater field. IP-14c-73-(152-155) Long view of well at Redwater field. IP-14c-73-156 Well using steam injection system at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-157 Inside boiler in steam plant at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-158 The “Hugo Holland” with “slick licker” belt in position, Ioco refinery harbour, Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-159 Ken Beattie leaving the “Hugo Holland” after a run in Ioco refinery harbour, Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-160 “Imperial Tofino” passing under Lion’s Gate Bridge on her way to Vancouver Island circuit. IP-14c-73-161 “Imperial Tofino” in Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-162 View of Ioco refinery from the south shore of Burrard Inlet. IP-14c-73-163 Rain and mist blanketing the Ioco refinery towers as viewed from the hills north of the storage tanks. IP-14c-73-164 View of Ioco refinery taken from the storage tank area and showing the natural surroundings. IP-14c-73-165 Sour water stripper at Ioco refinery. IP-14c-73-166 Engineer Mchel Poliquin with computer in the background at the Ioco refinery process control computer complex. IP-14c-73-167 Aerial view of Judy Creek fieldgate. IP-14c-73-170 Aerial view of Judy Creek gas plant. IP-14c-73-171 Judy Creek fieldgate. IP-14c-73-172 Judy Creek gas plant. IP-14c-73-(176-177) Drum loading and storage at Lougheed marketing terminal, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-178 Office building and loading rack at Lougheed marketing terminal, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-73-181 Lobby of administration building at Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, Edmonton, Alberta. IP-14c-73-182 Laboratory in administration building at Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, Edmonton, Alberta. IP-14c-73-183 Clare Cass operating dragline in Syncrude Pilot Project in the tar sands north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. IP-14c-73-184 Environmental control testing in laboratory at Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, Edmonton, Alberta. IP-14c-73-186 Dragline dumping oil-bearing sand which is bulldozed into piles for removal processing at Syncrude Pilot Project in the tar sands north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. IP-14c-73-187 Syncrude project pit, about 180 feet deep at this stage, showing oil-bearing strata in the tar sands north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. IP-14c-73-188 New Imperial Oil well at Golden Spike field, Alberta. IP-14c-73-189 Water injection station with pump in background at Golden Spike field, Alberta. IP-14c-73-190 Gas treatment plant at Golden Spike, Alberta. IP-14c-73-191 Gas plant at Golden Spike, Alberta. IP-14c-73-192 Solvent injection valves and lines at Golden Spike, Alberta. IP-14c-73-193 A huge dragline biting into a wall of tar sands 150 feet high at Syncrude Canada Limited’s Mildred Lake pilot facility on the Athabasca tar sands. IP-14c-73-194 Bulldozers clean up tar sands spilled by the huge dragline at Syncrude Canada Limited’s Mildred Lake pilot facility on the Athabasca tar sands. Equipment which handles the highly-abrasive earth wears out quickly, especially in the winter. IP-14c-73-195 The Athabasca region is a sea of scrub trees and muskeg atop oil-soaked tar sands. IP-14c-73-196 The Horse River plants of Abasand Oils Limited which burned down in 1945, were an early attempt at commercial production of the tar sands. IP-14c-73-197 Syncrude’s early test site by the Athabasca River at Mildred Lake. This helped the company decide on a full-scale plant and was still being used. IP-14c-73-198 Sample chunks of oil-rich, coarse-grained tar sands look, smell and feel like the asphalt used to pave city streets. The sands underlie 12,000 square miles in the Athabasca region. IP-14c-73-199 A vein of extra-rich oil sand runs through a formation in the Mountain Rapids area of the tar sands. The sands, varying often in quality, are a mixture of sand, water and bitumen. IP-14c-73-(200,200H) Trailing a seismic cable, an Imperial Oil crew explores under sea sediments off the east coast. A pair of these ship cost $20,000 per day to operate. IP-14c-73-222 Imperial Oil’s Cold Lake project produces 1,500 barrels of oil per day, heated by steam from the boilers at the right to make it flow. IP-14c-73-223 Production and steam injection lines linking wells to a central utility site create a snowflake pattern at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-238 John Farstead and Jerry Tupper checking core samples at Imperial Oil’s mineral exploration site near Gays River, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-(239-240) Project engineer, Patrick Hannon, logging core samples at Gays River, Nova Scotia, where Imperial Oil is exploring for lead and zinc. IP-14c-73-241 Trays of core samples in storage racks at Gays River, Nova Scotia, where Imperial Oil is exploring for lead and zinc. IP-14c-73-242 Allie McNaughton, camp supervisor, splitting core samples to be examined for lead and zinc content at Imperial Oil’s exploration site at Gays River, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-243 Close-up of split core sample taken from Imperial Oil’s exploration site at Gays River, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-244 Geologist and project engineer, Patrick Hannon, examining core sample under a microscope. The sample is from Imperial Oil’s exploration site at Gays River, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-245 Vivien Hannon, Patrick’s wife and fellow geologist, examining core sample from Imperial Oil’s exploration site at Gays River, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-246 View of Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery taken from across the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. IP-14c-73-(247-248) Views from Citadel Hill in Halifax looking across the harbour to Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery. IP-14c-73-(249-252) Views of API separators at Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery. Water used in various refinery processes passes through settling bays and skimmers before being discharged into the bay. IP-14c-73-253 Air fin cooler at Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery. Used for gasoline or highly volatile product processes. IP-14c-73-254 Hydrofiner unit #2 at Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery. The blue building at rear houses the air fin cooler and processes fuel oil products, removing unwanted sulphur at a rate of 8,000 barrels per day. IP-14c-73-255 Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery. The Atmospheric and vacuum unit at right processes about 80,000 barrels per day of stove oil, diesel fuel and gasoline products. To the right of the brick stack in the centre is the utility plant where boilers produce steam at about 425,000 barrels per day. IP-14c-73-256 Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery with downtown Halifax in the background. IP-14c-73-257 Looking past Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery towers to the Darmouth/Halifax bridges across the harbour with Sedco 1 in drydock. IP-14c-73-(258-260) Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery with downtown Halifax in the background. IP-14c-73-261 Ice-laden permafrost breaks from the shores of Pelly Island, five miles west of Imperial’s artificial drilling island in the Beaufort Sea. IP-14c-73-262 Bumpy-looking tundra as a result of frost-heaving in the soil which is typical of the formations found on permafrost. In this photograph, fire has stripped away the vegetative covering. IP-14c-73-263 Ice sometimes makes up a large part of permafrost soil, with only a thin top layer thawing in summer. Kept frozen, ice-rich permafrost will support buildings as well as solid rock. IP-14c-73-264 When vegetation is stripped off, ice-rich permafrost thaws and slumps, leaving a mud hole. IP-14c-73-270 Construction of Imperial Oil’s Pullen E-17 artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. IP-14c-73-271 Massive ice along the coastline of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula created by wave action. IP-14c-73-272 Slump at Eskimo Lakes on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. IP-14c-73-273 Ground ice on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. IP-14c-73-(276-277) Jean-Pierre Mathieu (with long hair) and Martin Nagler (with silver hair) looking at their simulated water treatment setup at Montreal East refinery. This will determine if refinery water can be biologically treated economically in the existing type of treatment plant. IP-14c-73-278 Gervais Leclaire looking at one of his chromatographic charts of a sample he has picked up in the refinery. He is trying to determine what kind of product it is and to see if he can trace its source back to the leak at Montreal East. IP-14c-73-(279-280) Gervais Leclaire looking at a sample of oil and water he has picked up in the refinery. He is trying to determine what kind of product it is and to see if he can trace its source back to the leak at Montreal East. IP-14c-73-(281-282) A Winnipeg roofing company using recycled paper to make building products. IP-14c-73-283 Dr. J. Molgaard who is a member of the University of St John’s Tribology Project. IP-14c-73-284 Research work for heavy oil at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-285 Production and steam injection lines linking wells to a central utility site creating a snowflake pattern at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-286 Syncrude’s early test site at Mildred Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-73-(287-288) Aerial view of Judy Creek, Alberta installation in winter. IP-14c-73-(289-291) Judy Creek gas plant. IP-14c-73-(292-294) Sedco 1, a semi-submersible drilling platform which Imperial Oil and another company are using in a joint exploration project on the Grand Banks.

IP-14c-74-(3-4) Building Products of Canada re-cycle plant at Pont Rouge, Quebec. Photograph shows making ceiling tiles from re-cycled paper. IP-14c-74-5 Adgo F-28, Imperial Oil’s second well drilled from an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. Drilling has indicated a significant thickness of gas-bearing sands there. IP-14c-74-7 Furnace fuel deliver to a pre-Confederation house near Stouffville, Ontario during the 1973-1974 heating season. IP-14c-74-9 Imperial Oil’s refinery at Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company spent more than $1 million in 1973 to compete a three- year expansion program that increased capacity to 82,500 barrels per day. IP-14c-74-10 The “Imperial Quebec”, one of Imperial Oil’s three product tankers serving the Atlantic coast communities, ties up at the Grenfell mission hospital dock, St. Anthony, Newfoundland. IP-14c-74-11 Imperial Oil’s fertilizer plants at Redwater, Alberta which produced a record 619,000 tons in 1973. Sales to the Canadian market reached 420,000 tons. IP-14c-74-12 Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery which supplies the oil to fuel Ontario Hydro’s heavy water plant at Douglas Point, Ontario. In 1973, these 63-car unit trains made 87 trips and carried 2,350,000 barrels of the fuel. IP-14c-74-15 Overhead pipe rack at Imperial Oil’s Judy Creek fieldgate. Pipes carry oil and natural gas from separation unit to treating facilities and to storage tanks. IP-14c-74-(16-17) Imperial Oil’s Judy Creek Gas conservation plants complex on a cloudless and bright, but cold winter day. The sun reflects on towers that separate the various fractures of natural gas by absorption and fractionation. IP-14c-74-(18-19) Fractionating towers at Judy Creek Gas Plants. IP-14c-74-20 Sandbagging the edge of Pullen artificial island. IP-14c-74-21 Sandbagging operations on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-22 Pullen Island sandbagging operation workers Jeff Gardiner, Hugh Allen and Doug Loughrrey. IP-14c-74-23 Gravel truck dumping gravel on Pullen Island with crane doing sandbagging in the background. IP-14c-74-25 Bulldozer on sea ice with ice blocks and camp in background on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-27 Looking past ice blocks on sea toward sand-bagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-28 Pullen artificial island sandbagging operation. Doug Loughrrey on right; crane operator is Chick Workman and his rigger is Don Gordon (not visible in this photograph). IP-14c-74-29 Looking past ice blocks on sea toward sand-bagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-30 Doug Loughrrey, one of the workmen on Pullen artificial Island. IP-14c-74-31 Ice blocks on the frozen sea around Pullen artificial island. Some of them have been arranged to spell out “Pullen Island.” IP-14c-74-32 Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-33 Aerial view of Pullen Island camp and sand bag loading operation. IP-14c-74-34 Aerial view of Pullen artificial island. IP-14c-74-35 “Main” street of camp on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-36 Loading gravel bags for sandbagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-37 Ken Stanbury directing the lifting of ice blocks from the water at Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-38 Loading gravel bags for sandbagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-39 Sandbagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-40 Adgo artificial island rig #3. IP-14c-74-41 Sandbagging operation on Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-42 Tongs picking up ice blocks from the sear around Pullen Island, with the work being directed by Ken Stanbury. IP-14c-74-43 Imperial Oil’s Ioco refinery, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-74-(55,60) Imperial Oil’s Lougheed Terminal, Vancouver, British Columbia. IP-14c-74-61 Adgo, the second well drilled from an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. IP-14c-74-62 Steam injection line, Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-65 Rig at Cold Lake, Alberta, February, 1974. IP-14c-74-448 Service rig installing bottom hole pumps at Judy Creek field, Alberta. IP-14c-74-(456,457) Activity on Imperial Oil’s Strathcona Refinery construction site, July, 1974. IP-14c-74-1-(66-69) Views of well site at Imperial Leduc No. 1; born February 13, 1947; died June 5, 1973. IP-14c-74-1-(70-77) Crew with service rig replacing pump at well in Leduc-Woodbend field, Alberta. IP-14c-74-1-(78-80) Aerial view of Redwater Gas Plant. IP-14c-74-1-(81-83) Aerial view of Redwater Fertilizer Plant. IP-14c-74-2-(84-90) Aerial view of Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-2-(91-102) Construction of Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-3-(103-115) Construction of Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-4-(116-117) Tracked vehicles provide access to the muddy forest near Judy Creek where Imperial Oil is exploring for coal. IP-14c-74-4-(118-122) Crew with mobile rig drilling for coal near Judy Creek. Water sludge is pumped up and screened residue is bagged and coded for analysis. IP-14c-74-4-(123-124) Data from coal samples is assessed in mobile field office near Judy Creek. IP-14c-74-4-(125-131) Judy Creek Fieldgate battery. IP-14c-74-4-(132-133) Installing fire tube at Judy Creek Fieldgate battery. IP-14c-74-5-(134-138) Aerial views of Judy Creek Gas Plant. IP-14c-74-5-(139-140) Jim Couzens sending and receiving well test data via computer at Judy Creek Gas Plant office. IP-14c-74-5(141-143) Laying additional gas pipeline near fieldgate at Judy Creek. IP-14c-74-5-(144-147) Long views of Judy Creek Gas Plant showing expansion construction in the foreground. IP-14c-74-5-(148-150) Dave Brannick inspecting pumps and turbines for water injection at Judy Creek. IP-14c-74-6-((151-161) Construction activity during Judy Creek Gas Plant expansion. IP-14c-74-6-(162-167) General view in existing Judy Creek Gas Plant. IP-14c-74-7-(168-171) Road building and improvement near Judy Creek Fieldgate battery. IP-14c-74-7-(172-173) Satellite battery near Judy Creek Fieldgate. IP-14c-74-7-(174-179) Large horsehead pump at well in Judy Creek field. IP-14c-74-7-(180-183) Bottom hole pumps to boost production being installed by service rig at wellsite in Judy Creek field. IP-14c-74-8-(184-189) Bottom hole pumps to boost production being installed by service rig at wellsite in Judy Creek field. The last three slides show electrical cable to operate pump being strapped to the drill pipe. IP-14c-74-8-(190-192) Water flood installation on shore of Carson Lake, near Judy Creek. This is the source of water piped to well for injection to boost recovery. IP-14c-74-8-(193-200) A seeding lease, located at a wellsite near Judy Creek, is treated to prevent soil erosion. Fertilizer and a mixture of grass and clover seed are scattered over the now barren area where the drilling activity once took place. The last two slides contrast the dry, cracked soil with the lush, new growth which will result. IP-14c-74-9-(201-219) Drilling crew at new infill wellsite near Judy Creek fieldgate. Infill drilling, a system to increase production from the Judy Creek field, puts down new wells spaced between existing wells in an established pattern. IP-14c-74-10-(220-229) Leming pilot plant under construction on the shore of Ethel Lake, in the Cold Lake field. IP-14c-74-10-(230-232) Aerial views of new Leming pilot plant under construction at Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-10-(233-236) Contract drilling rig used to drill new pattern of wells near new Leming plant site at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-11-(237-239) Survey crew at Leming pilot plant site, Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-11-(240-245) Erecting and welding steel plates for new storage tanks at Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-11-(246-254) General views of construction at new Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-12-(255-256) Stockpile of horsehead pump parts near Leming pilot plant for new wells at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-12-(257-262) Moving and welding pipe at Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-12-263 New Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake. In the foreground is a stockpile of hangars which support long lengths of pipe which carry steam to wells in the Cold Lake field. IP-14c-74-12-(264-268) Aerial views of satellites and field pattern at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-12-(269-272) Aerial views of original steam plant at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-13-(273-275) Tank truck loading heavy crude at Cold Lake plant for delivery to customer’s refinery. IP-14c-74-13-(276-277) Student taking pressure tests at satellite station in Cold Lake field. IP-14c-74-13-(278-279) Steam generating equipment inside Cold Lake plant. IP-14c-74-13-(280-281) Walter quality tests are carefully checked at Cold Lake steam plant. IP-14c-74-13-282 One of several air quality control monitors in the Cold Lake area. IP-14c-74-13-(283-285) Long distance views of Cold Lake steam plant. IP-14c-74-13-(286-288) Long distance views of Cold Lake steam plant with pump jack in foreground. IP-14c-74-13-289 Pattern of steam lines with pump jack and steam plant in the background, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-13-(290-291) Steam line and wellhead pump in Cold Lake field with Ethel Lake in the background. IP-14c-74-14-(292-299) Views of wellhead pumps with patterns formed by steam lines at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-14-(300-301) Views of pump at well #11, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-14-(302-304) Views of three wellhead pumps in a line indicating straight-line pattern of o drilling new wells at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-14-(305-310) Views of Imperial Oil’s Electra Turbo Jet at Inuvik airport, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-15-311 One of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters refueling at Inuvik airport. IP-14c-74-15-(312-315) One of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters loading baggage and crew for transfer to Bar-C base camp from Inuvik airport. IP-14c-74-15-316 Crews for northern camps debarking from Imperial’s Electra aircraft at Inuvik airport. IP-14c-74-15-317 Terminal building and tower at Inuvik airport. IP-14c-74-16-318 Twin Otter lands at Bar-C base camp and taxis across the airstrip to warehouse area to unload, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-16-(319-321) Twin Otter is unloaded at Bar-C base camp, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-16-322 Supplies flown in by Twin Otter are transferred from truck to warehouse at Bar- C base camp, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-16-(323-331) General views of activity at Bar-C base camp in summer when foundations for new storage buildings are laid, equipment is stored and maintained, and painting can be done, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-16-(332-333) Bert Harvey, radio operator and medic in the radio room at Bar-C base camp, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. This is the hectic nerve centre of the camp. IP-14c-74-16-(334-336) Section of Bar-C base camp taken from atop the fuel product storage tanks, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-17-(337-341) A barge docked at Bar-C base camp is unloaded by front-end loader, squeezing between rows of tightly packed crates and camp units., Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-17-342 Well after midnight, swarms of mosquitoes blur across and Arctic twilight where cranes and heavy equipment have unloaded a barge docked at Bar-C base camp, Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-17-(343-350) Imperial Oil’s Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories. Several views of stockpiles of drill pipe and heavy equipment to be moved out to the island building sites in the Beaufort Sea and other operations in the Mackenzie Delta. IP-14c-74-17-(351-354) Tug pushing a flotilla of six barges plies its way through the Mackenzie River, passing Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-18-(355-362) Slowly but powerfully, at tug with six barges navigates the Mackenzie River near Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, en route to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories where the ponderous load of equipment and supplies will be unloaded the next day. IP-14c-74-18-(363-365) Aerial views of Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories. This is the main base camp for Imperial Oil’s island building projects in the Beaufort Sea and will eventually include most of the former operations carried out from Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-74-18-(366-368) A hovercraft approaches Bar-C base camp late on a summer evening, although the sun is still quite high here after 10 o’clock pm. The hovercraft has arrived for groceries and supplies for Camp 3, the base for construction of Netserk, a new island in the Beaufort Sea. Fog and bad weather had closed in on Camp 3, preventing the usual deliveries by helicopter. IP-14c-74-18-(369-371) A jet boat used on the Mackenzie River during the short summer operates from Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-19-(372-377) Loaded with supplies for Camp 3 in the Beaufort Sea, a hovercraft revs its engines creating a swirl of dust and gravel and moves offshore and down the Mackenzie River across the shimmer from the late evening sun. IP-14c-74-19-(378-385) A hovercraft lands at Bar-C base camp, Tununuk, Northwest Territories to pick up supplies for Camp 3 in the Beaufort Sea. Barc-C men hurry to load the hovercraft amid hordes of mosquitoes appearing as pecks or blurs in some of these pictures. IP-14c-74-19-(386-389) Pingos near Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Pingos are volcano-shaped mounds in parts of the Arctic (especially in the Mackenzie Delta area) having a permanent core of solid ice and an outer coating of soil that may support vegetation. Pingos may rise some hundreds of feet above the surrounding terrain and are a result from pressures on layers of unfrozen material that are lying between a substratum of permafrost and a frozen surface. IP-14c-74-20-(390-392) The Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula with the town of Tuktoyaktuk and Imperial Oil’s base camp in the distance. IP-14c-74-20-(393-397) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s base camp at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-20-(398-402) Views of barge unloading and stockpiles at Tuktoyaktuk. IP-14c-74-20-(403-408) Pullen Island, Imperial Oil’s third artificial island. It was declared a dry hole after the winter 1973-1974 drilling, and dismantled and removed in late summer 1974. IP-14c-74-21-(409-413) Pullen Island, Imperial Oil’s third artificial island. It was declared a dry hole after the winter 1973-1974 drilling, and dismantled and removed in late summer 1974. IP-14c-74-21-(414-424) Immerk Island being used as a sandbagging base for the newer islands. Sand and gravel are barged here, filled into oversize, heavy plastic bags, then bound in pairs into wire mesh and loaded onto barges by crane. The bags are then taken to island building locations. IP-14c-74-21-425 Pullen Island. IP-14c-74-22-(425-426) Camp 3, base for the building of Imperial Oil’s Netserk B-44 artificial island. As the entire living quarters are constructed on barges, a helicopter landing pad was erected directly over the camp units. IP-14c-74-22-(427-430) Dredge and loading barges during construction of Netserk B-44 artificial island. IP-14c-74-22-(431-433) Barge being towed to dumping location for construction of Netserk B-44 artificial island. IP-14c-74-22-(434-439) Barge dumping load near cranes for construction of Netserk B-44 artificial island. IP-14c-74-23-(440-447) Cranes moving fill from dump location to spot where new artificial island Netserk B-44 is just appearing above the surface of the water. IP-14c-74-24-(613-614) Exterior views of Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery with landscaping and administration building in foreground. IP-14c-74-24-(615-616) Strathcona refinery’s crowded parking lot against a backdrop of one of the new storage tanks. IP-14c-74-24-(617-620) A section of the lobby and reception area in the new administration building at Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-24-(621-631) Angles and views of the product lines and new storage tanks at Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-25-(632-636) Angles and views of the product lines and new storage tanks at Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-25-(637-638) Smaller steam lines run adjacent to the product lines for cold weather protection at Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-25-(639-640) Work on the dykes in the storage tank area during construction of Strathcona refinery in late 1974. IP-14c-74-25-(642-647) Views of lights and towers in gray November weather at Strathcona refinery. IP-14c-74-26-(648-650) Concrete basin for ice testing at Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. IP-14c-74-26-(651-652) Battery-powered RTU relay units which transmit data from thermistor probes in the Arctic to Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. IP-14c-74-26-(653-655) Technician Ron Hedley checking a thermistor probe in Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. These probes, eight to ten feet in length, are implanted in permafrost and ice in the Arctic. The control box at the top of each probe transmits data on ice movement and thickness, water temperature, etc. through a system of RTU relay units to the Calgary laboratory for analysis. IP-14c-74-26-(656-659) Core samples from the oil-bearing strata taken from a well in the Cold Lake field. IP-14c-74-26-(660-666) Research on Cold Lake being carried out in Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. Slides 660 and 662 show technologist James Bell. Slides 661, and 663-666 show Aurel Bobar who is in charge of the project. The equipment in the room represents a scaled model of a well in the Cold Lake field. IP-14c-74-27-667 Technician Jim Collyer works on mineral analysis at Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. The printout records the parts per million of mineral in samples. IP-14c-74-27-(668-669) Technician Kathy Corry weighs samples to be analyzed at Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. IP-14c-74-27-(670-671) Technician Kathy Corry works on mineral analysis at Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. IP-14c-74-27-673 Apparatus in Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory providing automated atomic absorption analysis of mineral samples. IP-14c-74-27-(674,676) Mineral exploration research in Imperial Oil’s Calgary laboratory. The circle of small pans contains samples being prepared for fluormetric analysis of uranium content. IP-14c-74-28-677 Group of wellheads on a pad in new directional drilling system at Cold Lake field. From a single pad, one well is drilled straight down, and four, five or six more are drilled outward at angles in this more efficient drilling system which conserves not only time but the landscape as well. IP-14c-74-28-(678-679) New storage tanks at Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake, Alberta. IP-14c-74-28-(680-682) View of storage tanks and construction site at new Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake taken from atop one of the new storage tanks. IP-14c-74-28-(683-684) A pattern of gas and steam injection lines and return product lines at new Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-28-685 A conduit ditch during construction at Leming Pilot plant, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-28-686 Typical steam line and its supporting bracket at Leming pilot plant construction site, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-28-(687-688) New wellheads on a pad at Cold Lake awaiting the erection of horsehead pumps. IP-14c-74-28-689 Crude oil treaters installed at the new Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-28-(690-695) Erection of horsehead pumps on a pad in the Cold Lake field. A mobile drilling rig is doing completion work on this group of wells. IP-14c-74-29-(697-700) Groups of wellheads on single pad at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-29-(701-712) Angles and views of groups of pumps on various pads at Cold Lake, reflecting the system of directional drilling of several wells from one pad. IP-14c-74-29-(713-714) Dramatic silhouettes formed by close view of horsehead pumps at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-30-(715-716) Sun and silhouettes provide an unusual view of a group of pumps on pad at Cold Lake. IP-14c-74-30-(717-718) Group of pumps on a single pad at Cold Lake, the result of directional drilling of several wells from one pad. IP-14c-74-30-(719-730) Angles and views of new storage tanks at Leming pilot plant, Cold Lake. Finishing touches are being done to the steel covering insulation of the tanks. IP-14c-74-31-(731-732) Town of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, the hub of activity in the Athabasca tar sands. Construction and heavy oil recovery projects in the area have created a boom in business and housing for the rapidly growing population. IP-14c-74-31-(733-734) Housing development in Fort McMurray, November, 1974. Northward Developments Limited, a subsidiary of Syncrude, is constructing more than 200 housing units for growing staff at the Syncrude plant operation. IP-14c-74-31-(735-739) The power plant at the Syncrude site is being constructed in the shelter of this air-filled tent in November, 1974. IP-14c-74-31-740 Part of the framework of the extraction plant at the Syncrude site in November, 1974. IP-14c-74-31-(741-742) Gigantic crane used in erecting the coker structures at the Syncrude plant site. The base or platform of the derrick is 90 feet high, the crane itself is 210 feet making the total mechanism 300 feet in height. The lifting capacity is 200 tons. IP-14c-74-31-743 Prefabricated reinforced steel at the Syncrude plant site. IP-14c-74-31-744 Plates and framework of the coker units in the foreground and a portion of the extraction plant framework in the background at the Syncrude plant site. IP-14c-74-31-(745-746) Reinforced steel rods for the base of the 600 foot stack at the Syncrude plant site. IP-14c-74-31-(747-749) Gigantic crane used in erecting the coker structures at the Syncrude plant site. The base or platform of the derrick is 90 feet high, the crane itself is 210 feet making the total mechanism 300 feet in height. The lifting capacity is 200 tons. IP-14c-74-32-(750-752) Around noon, shortly after sunrise in November 1974, a PWA commercial flight prepares to leave for Edmonton, Alberta from Inuvik airport in the Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-32-753 In the twilight of a November day, one of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters is refueled at Inuvik airport. IP-14c-74-32-(754-755) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories, November, 1974. IP-14c-74-32-(756-757) About 6 miles from Tuktoyaktuk base camp at Mayogiak, rig 49 is laid down after drilling. IP-14c-74-32-(758-760) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s base camp at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-74-32-(761-764) Almost indiscernible in the frozen vastness of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, are the graders carrying the winter road building crews, 10-20 miles from the base camp. IP-14c-74-32-(765-768) Aerial views of Netserk Island in November, 1974, with the rig up and being prepared for drilling. IP-14c-74-33-(769-772) Aerial views of Netserk Island in November, 1974, with the rig up and being prepared for drilling. IP-14c-74-33-(773-787) Views of the rig and activity on Netserk Island in November 1974, during the preparations for the winter drilling program. IP-14c-74-34-788 Helicopter on the landing pad on Netserk Island, November, 1974. IP-14c-74-34-789 Tracked vehicle in the foreground, rig in the background being prepared for drilling on Netserk Island, November, 1974. IP-14c-74-34-(790-799) Model of Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery.

IP-14c-75-1-1 Imperial Oil’s Electra plane lands at Inuvik airport, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-75-1-(2-5) Unloading cargo from Imperial Oil’s Electra at Inuvik airport, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-75-1-6 Checking the tires on Imperial Oil’s Electra at Inuvik airport, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-75-1-(7-8) One of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters outside hangar at Inuvik airport, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-75-1-(9-12) Imperial Oil’s grocery van, known locally as the “Turkey Truck” transfers food supplies from a warehouse in the town of Inuvik to an Otter aircraft. The Otter will fly the supplies to various base camps in the Mackenzie Delta. IP-14c-75-1-(13-14) Unloading supplies from a barge at Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Barges bring the supplies up the Mackenzie River from the south; they are transferred by truck to Inuvik airport and then flown to various camps by Otter aircraft. IP-14c-75-1-(15-18) Supplies brought to Inuvik in shipping containers by barge are transferred to the “Turkey Truck” and moved to Imperial Oil’s warehouse in town. IP-14c-75-1-19 The “Turkey Truck” transfers groceries to a warehouse in Inuvik. IP-14c-75-2-20 Imperial Oil expediters unloading groceries from “Turkey Truck” at the warehouse in Inuvik. IP-14c-75-2-(21-22) Aerial view of Bar-C base camp at Tununuk, Northwest Territories. IP-14c-75-2-23 Trailer units for field camps stored at Bar-C base camp, seen with fuel tanks in the background. IP-14c-75-2-24 A chartered helicopter takes off from Bar-C base camp, taking personnel to field camps. IP-14c-75-2-25 Storage area for trailer units at Bar-C base camp seen through a foreground of fireweed, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-2-(26-27) Heavy motorized equipment lined up at Bar-C base camp. IP-14c-75-2-(28-29) Foremost tracked vehicle being serviced at Bar-C base camp. IP-14c-75-2-(30-36) Randy Schrader, shop serviceman (dark coveralls) and A.E. Nelson, mechanic, removing oil during servicing of Foremost vehicle at Bar-C. IP-14c-75-2-38 Floating pipeline for dredge snakes across the harbour at Tuktoyaktuk base camp on a calm Arctic summer morning in August. IP-14c-75-3-39 Floating pipeline in harbour at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-40 Activity around airstrip at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-41 One of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters coming in for a landing behind Rig #3 at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-42 One of Imperial Oil’s Twin Otters taking off at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-43 Rig #3 being modified at Tuktoyaktuk base to enable drilling on a smaller island in the Beaufort Sea. IP-14c-75-3-44 Rig #3, behind framework for structure that will store drill pipe and equipment, during rig modification at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-(45-47) Crane and men hoisting and fastening heavy tarpaulins to framework for roofing of storage building, at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-(48-49) Phil Rawe (in background, facing camera) briefs his crew on procedure during rig modification at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-(50-53) Phil Rawe and drill crew working on floor of rig at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-54 Phil Rawe leaves Rig #3 at the end of his shift at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-(55-56) Heating units being assembled dureing modification of Rig #3 at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-3-57 Shapes and patterns amidst heavy equipment stored at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-(59-62) Randy Zuberbier, trainee operator, checking condition of drill pipe stores at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-63 Randy Zuberbier checking the oil in huge Kenworth truck called “sow” at the Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-(64-65) Randy Zuberbier and storage tank at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-(66-68) Welding and construction of helicopter landing pad to be installed on barge camp #4 at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-(69-73) Huge crane lifting framework for helicopter landing pad into place on barge camp #4 at Tuktoyaktuk base. IP-14c-75-4-(75-76) Floatation collars for floating pipeline to be assembled at Tuktoyaktuk base for eventual use by dredge/ship Beaver Mackenzie. IP-14c-75-5-(77-81) Assembling the 1700-foot floating pipeline at Tuktoyaktuk base in August 1975. The pipeline will be tested and eventually connected to the Beaver Mackenzie dredge/ship for use in constructing artificial islands. IP-14c-75-5-(82-83) Floatation collars having been attached to the floating pipeline, one end is hosted by crane for attachment to a shore barge, the blue metal structure in the background at Tuktoyaktuk base, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-5-(84-86) Floating pipeline completely assembled and connected to the shore barge, is checked along it 1700-foot length at Tuktoyaktuk base, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-5-87 New barge camp #4, two stories high, is moored while helicopter landing pad is constructed and installed. The camp is the backdrop in this view of the harbour with the floating pipelines snaking out to the horizon at Tuktoyaktuk base, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-5-(89-92) Silhouetted against the sky, workmen prepare the shore barge connections for attachment to the floating pipeline at Tuktoyaktuk base, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-5-(93-94) Aerial views of camp #16 at Langley Island, Northwest Territories on an early morning in August, 1975. IP-14c-75-5-95 In preparation for an early morning flight, a helicopter is refueled at Langley Island with the living quarters of camp #16 in the background, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-6-96 View of camp #16 at Langley Island, Northwest Territories, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-6-(97-98) Barge camp #4, anchored offshore in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Used as a base for those working on artificial islands nearby. IP-14c-75-6-99 Floating camp anchored in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Near Gary island and Pelly Spit where gravel for artificial islands is dredged and loaded into barges and sandbags. IP-14c-75-6-(100-101) Aerial views of abandoned Pullen Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Viewed through an offshore fog. IP-14c-75-6-(102-103) Artificial island Adgo F-28 in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Now abandoned and washing away, it is viewed through an offshore fog. IP-14c-75-6-(104-105) Aerial view of artificial island Adgo C-15 in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Drilling is completed and Rig #3 is shown on its side, awaiting removal to a new island, Ikattok, which is just being completed. IP-14c-75-6-(106-107) A new artificial island, Ikattok, is being completed in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Rig #3 will be moved from Adgo C-15. IP-14c-75-6-108 A crew boat in the Beaufort Sea on a foggy morning in August, 1975. The boat is used to make the rounds of artificial island sites. IP-14c-75-6-109 Heavy equipment on barges moving gravel to machine which makes huge sandbags used for shoring up artificial islands, near Gary Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-6-110 Stones too large for sandbagging machines are removed by hand from a conveyor belt feeding gravel to the machine, on a barge near Gary Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-6-111 Gravel for artificial islands is loaded onto barges at Gary Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-6-(112-114) A huge crane lifts sandbags filled by machine onto barges for transfer to artificial island site, at Gary Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-115 A huge crane lifts sandbags filled by machine onto barges for transfer to artificial island site, at Gary Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-116 Long view of Pelly Spit where gravel is being dredged and loaded into barges for construction of artificial islands in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-(117-118) Near Pelly Island in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. Gravel is being dredged for constructing artificial islands. From the dredge, slurry is pumped into barges that will be towed to island site. IP-14c-75-7-(119-120) Tugs towing gravel barges to and from site during construction of artificial island Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-(121-123) Barge-mounted cranes moving gravel to designated construction of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-124 Crane lifting sandbags from barge to bank up the perimeter of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-125 Tug towing gravel barge approaching site of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-126 Another barge of gravel approaching Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. The sandbag perimeter of the island is now above the waterline. IP-14c-75-7-127 Tug approaching as close as possible to dump gravel from barge at site of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-128 Barge opening to dump gravel at island site of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-129 Crane moving gravel at Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-130 Clenched teeth of a “clamshell” crane bucket at rest on a barge at Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-(131-132) “Clamshell” crane moving gravel with sandbag for perimeter of Netserk North in the Beaufort Sea, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-7-133 An ant-like barge plies its way down the Mackenzie River at Norman Wells, Northwest Territories in the shimmer of an August sun, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-(134-137) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-138 New tank farm in the foreground of this aerial view of Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-139 Service rig at well on Goose Island, across the Mackenzie River from Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-(140-141) Loading a barge with crude oil at Bear Island, to be brought across the Mackenzie River to Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-(142-144) Barge bringing crude oil across the Mackenzie River from Bear Island to Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-145 Close view of well head at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. The refinery is in the background. IP-14c-75-8-146 Close-up view of wellhead with tank farm in the background at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-(147-148) Views from atop a storage tank with the Mackenzie River in the background at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-149 View of tank farm from atop a storage tank at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-150 Some of the newly painted tanks at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-151 Painting the product lines and tank farm at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-8-152 Portion of the tank farm at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-153 Portion of the tank farm framed by a loop in the product lines at Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-(155-158) Native employees sorting drums at the drum reconditioning plant, Imperial Oil’s refinery at Norman Wells, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-159 An earth mover grading the area for new fertilizer storage pads at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer plant at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-(160-163) Construction work during expansion of the phosphatic plant at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer complex at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-164 Emission stack of the sulphuric acid unit in the phosphatic plant at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer complex at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-(165-169) Construction and welding during expansion of the phosphatic plant at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer plant at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-9-170 Welder at phosphatic plant at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer complex at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14-75-9-171 Norm Roe, welder at the phosphatic plant, travels the site by bicycle at Imperial Oil’s fertilizer plant at Redwater, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-172 View from atop a storage tank at Imperial Oil’s Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-173 Bob Heide, assistant engineer, atop a storage tank, views Imperial Oil’s Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-(174-175) Newly finished storage tanks at Imperial Oil’s Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-176 Steam line and cluster of horsehead pumps with storage tanks in background at Imperial Oil’s Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-(177-178) Tank trucks loading crude at Imperial Oil’s Leming pilot plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-179 View of steam line to well in the Cold Lake heavy oil field, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-(180-182) Bud Heide, assistant engineer, checking stockpile of horsehead pump components at Cold Lake, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-(183-186) Bud Heide, assistant engineer, making rounds to check out various wells at Cold Lake, where groups of wells are drilled directionally form one pad, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-(187-189) Checking valves on well in the Cold Lake field, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-10-190 Drilling rig in Cold Lake field, August, 1975. A group of 14 new wells being drilled directionally. IP-14c-75-11-191 Drilling rig at Cold Lake field, August, 1975. 14 new wells are being drilled directionally from this site and eventually a cluster of horsehead pumps will be mounted there. IP-14c-75-11-(192-205) Series of action shots of drill crew in Cold Lake field, August, 1975. 14 new wells are being drilled directionally from this site. IP-14c-75-11-(206-209) Views of Imperial Oil’s Judy Creek gas plant, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-210 Number 5 gas plant at Judy Creek, Alberta, which came on stream in January, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-(212-215) Gerrit Van Haaften, mechanical foreman, making routine checks at Number 5 gas plant, Judy Creek, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-(216-217) Number 5 gas plant, Judy Creek, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-218 Gerrit Van Haaften, mechanical foreman, making routine checks at Number 5 gas plant, Judy Creek, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-(219-221) Overhead pipe rack at Number 5 gas plant, Judy Creek, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-222 Gerrit Van Haaften, mechanical foreman, making routine checks at Number 5 gas plant, Judy Creek, Alberta, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-(223-225) Inlet separators at Judy Creek gas plant, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-12-(226-228) Brightly painted valves provide interesting colour, shapes and patterns at Judy Creek gas plant, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-(229-234) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-236 Grasses and wildflowers flourish in a field skirting Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-(237-240) Street signs in the Strathcona Refinery complex, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-241 Skylight and greenery in the lobby of the Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-(242-243) Rows of steam traps at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-244 Checking preheat exchangers at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-245 Light ends towers at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-246 Cat cracker at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-13-247 Powerformer at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-248 Preheat exchangers at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-249 Crude stills pipeway at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-250 Crude light ends tower at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-251 Vacuum furnace at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-252 Checking the pipestill lines and valves at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-253 Checking steam lines and valves at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. Airfin coolers and the main crude tower in the background. IP-14c-75-14-254 Atmospheric preheat exchangers at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-(255-258) Views of the main crude tower at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-260 Debutanizer tower photographed through a fire water monitor at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-261 A fire water monitor with the debutanizer tower in the background at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-14-263 Bob Jenkins, senior engineer, checking the vacuum eductors at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. The crude and light ends towers are in the background. IP-14c-75-14-(264-265) Flare blowdown drum at Strathcona refinery, August, 1975. IP-14c-75-15-(266-284) Views of Syncrude plant under construction in December, 1975. IP-14c-75-16-(285-292) Views of Syncrude plant under construction in December, 1975. IP-14c-75-16-293 Fire being used to thaw the ground for excavation at Syncrude plant under construction in December, 1975. IP-14c-75-17-(431-438) Aerial views of Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-17-439 Welding storage tank at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-17-(440-445) Installing insulation on product lines in storage tank area at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-17-(446-449) Views and angles of coloured tanks and product lines at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-18-(450-468) Views and angles of coloured tanks and product lines at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-19-(469-473) Views and angles of coloured tanks and product lines at Imperial Oil’s Montreal East refinery. IP-14c-75-19-(474-477) Trainee C. Begg on the Fox 1 computer operating console in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-478 R. Ste. Croix, process controller, and J.P. Melancon, with the light ends and poly plant back-up panel in the background at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-479 The hydrofiner back-up panel at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-480 J.G. Gravel, an instrument man, at work on an instrument on the hydrofiner back-up panel at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-481 R. Ste. Croix, process controller, showing G.D. Williamson the back-up panel for the crude units at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-482 R. Germain, an instrument man, tuning an instrument using the Fox 1 computer engineer’s console, while A. Malo, an instrument technologist is working out a formula at the desk in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-19-(483-487) Group of OM&S employees inside the OM&S control room prior to the installation of the computer console at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. Sitting with a safety hat is J.G.F.L. Duclos; standing at the back-up panel is M.D. Leonard; on the phone is the controller F.P. Cadotte; and A.N. Nadeau. IP-14c-75-20-488 Process supervisor R.R. Desmarais (standing) and F.P. Cadotte comparing information in the OM&S control room at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-489 R. Ste. Croix, process controller, showing G.D. Williamson the back-up panel of the crude units in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-490 Process technician G.D Williamson on the phone at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-491 R. Ste. Croix, process controller, showing G.D. Williamson the back-up panel of the crude units in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-492 G. Williamson and A. Malo standing in front of the light ends and poly plant back-up panel in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-(493-495) F.P. Cadotte, OM&S controller, with the back-up panel matrix in the background at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-496 The bank of back-up controller instruments on the cat cracker back-up panel at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-497 Part of the crude system alarm panel on the back-up panel of the OM&S control room at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-(498-499) Part of the OM&S back-up panel matrix in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-500 Part of the OM&S back-up panel matrix showing the status of motor operated valves, pumps and tank mixers at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-501 G. Williamson at the Complex 2 – Fox 1 computer operating console in Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-(502-503) J.L.P. Cote (standing) instructing (from left to right): J.J. Marleau, T.O. Depres and E.I. Laporte on the use of the CDC computer keyboard at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-20-(504-505) J.L.P. Cote is teaching the utilization of the CDC computer keyboard and describing the different elements of the keyboard at Imperial Oil’s Montreal Computer Centre. IP-14c-75-21-(517-535) Geological exploration. IP-14c-75-22-(536-537) Geological exploration. IP-14c-75-22-(538-553) Adgo Island. IP-14c-75-23-(554-559) Adgo Island. IP-14c-75-23-560 Ikattok.