The Imperial Strathcona refinery near Edmonton
Alberta’s petrochemicals advantage
Canada’s oil hub looks to the future amid a supportive geological and investment environment
Alberta could “have one of the biggest petrochemical industries in the world”, the province’s premier, Danielle Smith, told the PetroChem Canada West conference in Calgary in early April. The Canadian province has received C$30b ($22b) in applications for its Alberta Petrochemical Incentives Program (APIP), which pays up to 12% of a project’s capital costs upon completion, since the programme was announced in October 2020, she said. To date, one project has been completed under APIP, Calgary-based Inter Pipeline’s C$5b Heartland Petrochemical Complex in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland (AIH) near Edmonton, in July 2022. “The operation is the only one of its kind in North America, offering the
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