Petro-Canada
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Petro-Canada (colloquially known as Petro-Can) is a retail and wholesale marketing brand subsidiary of Suncor Energy. Until 1991, it was a federal Crown corporation (a state-owned enterprise). In August 2009, Petro-Canada merged with Suncor Energy, with Suncor shareholders receiving approximately 60 percent ownership of the combined company and Petro-Canada shareholders receiving approximately 40 percent. The company retained the Suncor Energy name for the merged corporation and its upstream operations. It continues to use the Petro-Canada name nationwide.
History
Founding
In 1973,
Trudeau's Liberals were then in a minority government and dependent upon the support of the NDP to stay in power. The idea also fit with the growing movement toward economic nationalism within the Liberals. The Liberals and NDP passed the bill over the opposition of the Progressive Conservative Party led by Robert Stanfield.
Crown Corporation (1975–1991)
Petro-Canada was founded as a
With the establishment of Petro-Canada, the federal government transferred its 45% stake in
The company became popular outside of Alberta as a symbol of Canadian nationalism[citation needed]. It quickly grew to become one of the largest players in the traditional oil fields of the west as well as in the oil sands and the East coast offshore oil fields.
When the Liberals returned to power in 1980, energy policy was an important focus, and the sweeping National Energy Program was created. This expanded Petro-Canada, but was seen as detrimental to Alberta's economy. The PC government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) stopped using Petro-Canada as a policy tool (also abandoning the National Energy Program with it), and it began to compete fully and successfully[according to whom?] with the private sector companies while abandoning its founding principles of economic nationalism.
Private, Independent Company (1991–2009)
In 1990, the Mulroney government announced its intention to privatize Petro-Canada, and the first shares were sold on the open market in July 1991 at $13 each.[citation needed] The government began to slowly sell its majority control, but kept a 19% stake in the company. No other shareholder was allowed to own more than 10%, however. Also, foreigners could not control more than 25% of the company.
During the first year, the value of the shares gradually dropped to $8 as Petro-Canada suffered a loss of $603 million, primarily because of the devaluation of some assets.[citation needed] The newly private company significantly reduced the number of properties in which it had a direct interest. It reduced its annual operating costs by $300 million and it went from a staff of close to 11,000 to only about 5,000 employees. Many of these laid-off employees went on to work and start up other oil companies in Alberta, creating a new group of Canadian producers. But many did not work in other oil companies and some left Alberta to find work elsewhere.[citation needed]
In his 2004 federal budget, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale pledged to sell the government's remaining stake in the company and by the end of the year it had sold its 19% stake, 49 million shares in all, for net proceeds of $3.2 billion.[3] As of June 2007, the company's largest shareholders were Capital Research and Management Company (a Capital Group company), with 7.3%, and Barclays, with 4%.[4]
Subsidiary of Suncor (2009–present)
On March 23, 2009, Suncor Energy announced its intent to acquire Petro-Canada, which would form a company with a combined market capitalization of C$43.3 billion. Suncor planned to rebrand its existing Sunoco-branded retail operations in Ontario under the Petro-Canada name following the completion of the acquisition.[5][6][7][8]
The sale was approved by shareholders in June 2009,[9][10] and completed on August 1, 2009.[11][12] As a condition of the purchase, Suncor was required to divest some of its retail outlets. In December 2009, 98 Suncor-owned gas stations in Ontario (68 Sunoco and 30 Petro-Canada) were sold to Husky Energy.[13]
Operations
As of 2008, Petro-Canada was Canada's 11th largest company and the second-largest
Petro-Canada had a lubricants plant in
At one time, the company had international operations in
.In January 2019, Petro-Canada installed electric vehicle charging stations at one of their gas stations in Milton, Ontario, making it the company's first EV chargers.[15] The following month, Suncor announced that it would develop a national network of charging stations serving the Trans-Canada Highway.[16]
Retail
As early as the mid-1990s in some Alberta locations, Petro-Canada started opening a new fast-food deli-oriented branded convenience store called Neighbours. Most of these stores are in the GTA.[17] The kitchen provided freshly made sandwiches as well as breakfast and burgers heated from frozen, and in most cases was open from early morning till 9 or 10 in the evening. As of 2013, many of these Neighbours stores have had their kitchens' afternoon and dinner hours drastically slashed and some have been permanently closed and are being rebranded to A&W.[citation needed]
In 2006, Petro-Canada launched a pre-paid wireless carrier known as Petro-Canada Mobility. It is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) on the Rogers Wireless network.[citation needed]
Petro Points is the chain's
Around 220 Petro-Canada outlets include a "SuperWash" car wash; the majority of these operations use soft touch systems, but some (particularly those that were formerly Sunoco stations) feature touchless equipment instead. Some newer locations feature a "Glide Auto Wash"—a soft touch tunnel that utilizes a flat conveyor belt rather than the roller-based systems traditionally used.
In May 2023, Suncor announced an agreement with
Leadership
President
Wilbert H. Hopper, 1976–1979
Andrew Janisch, 1979–1982
Edward M. Lakusta, 1982–1990
James M. Stanford, 1990–2000
Ronald A. Brenneman, 2000–2009
Chairman of the Board
Maurice F. Strong, 1976–1978
Wilbert H. Hopper, 1978–1993
A. Edwin Barroll, 1993–1995
James T. Black, 1995–1996
Thomas E. Kierans, 1996–2000
James M. Stanford, 2000
Brian F. MacNeill, 2000–2009
See also
- List of automotive fuel brands
- OPEC
- List of oil-producing states
- History of the petroleum industry in Canada
References
- ^ "Company Profile for Petro-Canada (PCZ)". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ Mr. T. C. Douglas, Member of Parliament and Leader of the NDP (March 12, 1975). "House of Commons Debates, 30th Parliament, 1st Session : Vol. 4". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Canada: House of Commons. p. 4042.
- ^ Petro-Canada.ca Archived November 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Yahoo Finance". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ^ "Suncor, Petro-Canada merge". Canoe. March 23, 2009. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012.
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- ^ Tait, Carrie. "Mixed reviews for Suncor expansion project plan". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ "Competition Bureau OK's Suncor, Petro-Canada merger". CBC News. 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
- ^ Suncor shareholders add support to Petrocan deal, CTV, June 4, 2009, archived from the original on May 2, 2014
- ^ "Suncor, Petro Canada complete merger". bizjournals. August 6, 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-02. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
- ^ "A united Petro-Canada and Suncor: Canada's second-biggest company, after the Royal Bank of Canada?". National Post. March 23, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Husky buys 98 stations from Suncor". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- ^ Petro-Canada deal helps HollyFrontier's offerings Archived 2019-08-13 at the Wayback Machine - Kyle Brown, Rubber & Plastic News, 19 January 2018
- ^ Lambert, Fred (21 January 2019). "Petro Canada starts deploying its own electric vehicle chargers at gas stations". Electrek. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ "Petro-Canada installing 50 fast-charging EV stations across the country — but is there demand?". Global News. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
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