Timeline of the petroleum industry in Alberta

This is a brief timeline covering the history of the petroleum industry Alberta and its predecessor states.

2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests begin as members of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation blockade a Canadian National Railway rail line just north of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

Site commemorating the drilling of Lineham Discovery Well No. 1

Bitumount in 2017.

Dr. Karl Clark and guide Romeo Eymundson on the back of the Athabasca River during one of Clark's oil expeditions.

Map of all pipelines regulated by the Canadian Energy Regulator that originate from Alberta.

Graph outlining oil prices and breakevens for different extraction. methods used in Alberta.

Planned production in the Athabasca oil sands .

Map of oil sand deposits in Alberta.