Petro-Canada: The National Oil Company as a Tool of Canadian Energy Policy.

Abstract

Canada utilizes its national oil company--Petro-Canada--to address important energy issues which are similar to those facing the United States. This study describes four principal functions which Petro-Canada has been assigned and how it performs them. Information on the Canadian experience may help in evaluating U.S. energy policy approaches and possible options for attaining U.S. energy goals in the future. The study, however, makes no direct comparisons or assessments of the value of the Canadian versus the U.S. approach to similar energy problems, nor does it address directly the many issues which would have to be examined in considering the establishment of some form of national oil company in the United States. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1981
Accession Number
ADA107981

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • British Columbia
  • Commerce
  • Economic Analysis
  • Fuel Oils
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Law
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Natural Gas
  • Negotiations
  • Petroleum
  • Public Policy
  • Renewable Energy

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Canadian European Scientific Immigration and Epilepsy Clearance Studies
  • Economics
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.