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Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Limitée) is Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
's largest petroleum

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
company. The company is engaged in the exploration, production and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It is controlled by ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil

The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an United States petroleum and natural gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D....
, which owns 69.6% of its stock. Imperial owns 25% of Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Syncrude

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is the world's largest producer of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada. It is located just outside Fort McMurray, Alberta in the Athabasca Oil Sands, and supplies about 13% of Canada's oil requirements....
, the world's largest producer of synthetic crude

Synthetic crude

Synthetic crude is the output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production. It is also the output from an oil shale extraction....
oil from strip mining of oil sands. Imperial Oil operates service station

Service station

Service station is a term with different meanings in different parts of the world:* Filling station, in the United States, Australia, France and New Zealand, a gas/petrol station that also may offer such services as oil change and mechanical repairs to automobiles...
s in Canada under the trade name

Trade name

A trade name, also known as a trading name or a business name, is the name which a business trades under for commercial purposes, although its registered, Legal name , used for contracts and other formal situations, may be another....
Esso

Esso

Esso is an international trade name for ExxonMobil and its related companies. Pronounced , it is derived from the initials of the pre-1911 Standard Oil, and as such became the focus of much litigation and regulatory restriction in the United States....
as well as other brand

Brand

A brand is a collection of symbols, experiences and associations connected with a product, a service, a person or any other artifact or entity....
names.

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Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Limitée) is Canada

Canada

Petroleum

ExxonMobil

Syncrude

Synthetic crude

Service station

Trade name

Esso

Brand

A brand is a collection of symbols, experiences and associations connected with a product, a service, a person or any other artifact or entity....
names. Its owned-and-operated convenience store

Convenience store

A convenience store is a small store or shop that sells candy, ice-cream, soft drinks, lottery tickets, newspapers and magazines, along with a small selection of food and grocery supplies....
s use the On the Run / Marché Express or Tiger Express brands.

The company was incorporated

Incorporation (business)

Incorporation is the forming of a new corporation . The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organization, sports club or a government of a new city or town....
in 1880. Currently headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Imperial Oil was based in Toronto, Ontario until 2005.

Imperial is one of Canada's top natural gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
producers, the country's major refiner

Refining

Refining is the process of purification of a chemical compound. The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, but which is more useful in its pure form....
and marketer

Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
of petroleum products and an important manufacturer

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machine, tool and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to Industry production, in which raw material are transformed into finished good on a large scale....
of petrochemical

Petrochemical

Petrochemicals are chemical products made from raw materials of petroleum or other hydrocarbon origin. Although some of the chemical compounds that originate from petroleum may also be derived from coal and natural gas, petroleum is the major source....
s. Most of Imperial's production is from its vast natural resource

Natural resource

Renewable resources Renewable resources are sometimes living resources,, which can restock themselves if used sustainably and not over- harvested....
holdings in Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
and the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories are a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.Located in northern Canada, it borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south....
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Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors

Board of directors

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed persons who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. The body sometimes has a different name, such as board of trustees, board of governors, board of managers, or executive board....
of Imperial Oil are: Krystyna Hoeg, Bruce March, Jack Mintz, Robert Olsen, Roger Phillips, Paul Smith, Sheelagh Whittaker and Victor Young.

Bruce March is the current Chairman, President and CEO since 2008, replacing Tim Hearn who retired effective March 31, 2008.

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