Sheer necessity, the proper parent of an
art so nearly allied to invention. From: The
Critic. Act i. Sc. 2. by Richard Brinsley
Sheridan (1751–1816)
In the petroleum industry, the sheer necessity of
increasing access to oil and gas reserves served as the
impetus to many inventions. The world's petroleum
industry started in Canada when New Brunswick
geologist, Albert Gesner, developed the technology
to distill
kerosene. The first drilling oil well in the world
may have been in China and Europe, but the
technological advances were made in Canada. With the
invention of the drilling platform and artificial
islands, the industry was able to develop remote
areas. In Canada, the offshore industry has expanded
to the artic with the help of these two inventions.
Canada’s petroleum industry has been driven by these
inventions and energy of their inventors.
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