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Article: DRILLING OFFSHORE BRITISH COLUMBIA MAY LIGHT ITS FIRE
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- Hart's Petroleum Finance Week
- Article date:
- June 30, 2003
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British Columbia is excited about its possible new offshore gas- exploration program--and its bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Canadian province's capital, Vancouver, is competing with Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the games. If it wins, "we hope to light the torch at those Olympics with gas from our offshore energy industry," says Rick Thorpe, British Columbia's minister of competition, science and enterprise.
The province is readying to offer offshore drilling permits. The only drilling done off Canada's west coast was one well in 1949 and a few wells in the 1960s by Shell Canada, resulting in noncommercial levels of oil and some gas shows, according ...