Operations
As of 2008, Petro-Canada was Canada's 11th largest company and the second-largest downstream company, with important interests in such projects as Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose; its gas stations remained a presence in most Canadian cities. It owned refineries in Edmonton, Alberta (135,000 bpd) and Montreal, Quebec (160,000 bpd), accounting for 16% of the Canadian industry's total refining capacity. Its lubricants plant in Mississauga, Ontario (15,600 bpd) refined crude oil feedstock to produce lubricating oil-based stocks (13,600 bpd of API Group II capacity and 2,000 bpd of API Group III capacity) and other specialized products. All these facilities are currently run by Suncor.
At one time, the company had international operations in Algeria, the Netherlands, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, Syria, Italy, Libya, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Morocco and Norway. These sites outside of North America were run by the International and Offshore Business Unit of Petro-Canada with its headquarters in London. This was the largest business unit, and much of its assets were part of the former Veba Oel company based in Essen, Germany.
In 2006, the company entered the mobile phone market with a prepaid service called Petro-Canada Mobility.
In recent years, Petro-Canada has been opening a new fast-food oriented branded convenience store called Neighbours. Many of these new stores are in the GTA with a new store slated for Stittsville in Ottawa. Some of these locations include drive-thrus and the "Glide Auto Wash", a hybrid car wash allowing the customer a choice of either a soft cloth wash or a touchless wash. As of December 2011, there are 11 Glide car washes in Ontario, one Glide car wash in Alberta and 220 "SuperWash" locations from British Columbia to Quebec. Some other locations include an A&W restaurant within its stores.
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