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president & ceo 3 4 products petrochemical 2 products revenue 31.188 billion cad 2012 2 net income 3.766 billion cad 2012 2 total assets 2.364 billion cad 2012 2 total equity 16.377 billion cad 2012 2 owner exxonmobil 69.6 % 2012 2 number of employees 5 263 2012 2 website www.imperialoil.ca imperial oil limited french l imp riale is a canadian petroleum company . 2 it is canada s second biggest integrated oil company . 3 exxon mobil corp. had a 69.6 percent ownership stake in the company as of december 31 2012 . 2 it is a significant producer of crude oil diluted bitumen and natural gas canada s major petroleum refiner a key petrochemical producer and a national marketer with coast to coast supply and retail networks . 2 its retail operations include esso brand service stations and on the run march express and tiger express brand convenience stores . 2 5 it is also known for its holdings in the alberta oil sands . 3 imperial owns 25 percent of syncrude which is one of the world s largest oil sands operations . 2 imperial is also in a joint venture oil sands mining operation with exxonmobil corp. called kearl oil sands . 6 currently headquartered in calgary alberta imperial oil was based in toronto ontario until 2005 . 7 most of imperial s production is from its vast natural resource holdings in the alberta oil sands 8 and the norman wells oil field in the northwest territories . 9 contents 1 history 1.1 involvement with hockey night in canada 2 corporate governance 3 retail 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the company was incorporated in london ontario in 1880 filey 1998 62 . 10 imperial oil discovered the leduc woodbend devonian oil reef in 1947 marking the beginning of the contemporary period in canadian oil and gas development . 11 drilling began on the landmark discovery well leduc no. 1 on november 20 1946 . 11 in 1989 imperial oil acquired texaco s canadian operations . 12 involvement with hockey night in canada edit from the 1934 35 season through the 1975 76 season imperial oil was a sponsor of the canadian broadcasting corp. program hockey night in canada for both radio and television broadcasts . 13 14 corporate governance edit in february 2013 richard kruger president of exxonmobil production co. and a vice president of exxon mobil corp. was appointed to be chief executive of imperial oil . 3 his predecessor bruce march left to become senior vice president of global operations for exxonmobil chemical co. 3 besides richard kruger other members of the board of directors of imperial oil are krystyna hoeg jack mintz david sutherland darren woods sheelagh whittaker and victor young . 4 retail edit imperial oil has 1700 service stations with majority owned third parties and sold 497 stations in 2016 . 15 in the late early 1990s imperial oil acquired retail operations from texaco s canadian unit texaco canada incorporated . see also edit companies portal an esso branded service station with on the run convenience store in kanata ontario . exxonmobil esso imperial oil dartmouth refinery imperial oil nanticoke refinery imperial oil strathcona refinery imperial oil building former toronto headquarters building nuns island gas station an esso station designed by ludwig mies van der rohe in 1969 ioco port moody references edit s & p tsx 60 index . xls . standard & poor s. june 28 2013 . retrieved july 14 2013 . a b c d e f g h i j k l m 2012 summary annual report pdf . imperial oil ltd. 2012 . retrieved july 7 2013 . a b c d e bhaswati mukhopadhyay february 21 2013 . sriraj kalluvila ed . imperial oil names exxon veteran kruger as ceo . reuters . retrieved july 7 2013 . a b board of directors . imperial oil ltd. retrieved july 13 2013 . on the run . imperial oil ltd. retrieved july 13 2013 . imperial oil kearl overview . www.imperialoil.ca . retrieved 2016 05 19 . stephen ewart october 2 2012 . ewart imperial oil faces urban suburban challenge . calgary herald . retrieved july 13 2013 . operations overview . www.imperialoil.ca . retrieved 2016 05 19 . conventional oil . www.imperialoil.ca . retrieved 2016 05 19 . mike filey april 1 1998 . discover and explore toronto s waterfront . dundurn ontario . p. 144 . a b frank dabbs director petroleum history society march 2004 . before leduc and some musings on the meaning of history pdf . petroleum history society archives . calgary alberta . xv 3 . retrieved july 13 2013 . texaco canada inc . the canadian encyclopedia . retrieved july 13 2013 . j. lyman potts january 2002 . saturday night hockey hockey night in canada . canadian communications foundation . retrieved july 13 2013 . paul patskou august 2007 . hockey night in canada the television years . canadian communications foundation . retrieved july 13 2013 . http www.theglobeandmail.com report on business industry news energy and resources imperial oil to sell 497 esso gas stations for 28 billion article29084354 external links edit imperial oil homepage v t e exxonmobil divisions 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