Welding a Section of Oil Pipeline, Turner Valley to Calgary, Macleod Trail, 1930.
With the discovery of the Royalite field in the mid-twenties and the construction of the Imperial Oil refinery in east Calgary, a more assured all-weather form of transportation of the oil was required. The first 25.4-centimetre gas line delivering scrubbed natural gas to Calgary was constructed in 1925, and in the same year, a small 10-centimetre oil line connected the Royalite field with the Imperial Oil Refinery. In the 1930s the larger oil line seen here was built to carry the increased oil production from the Turner Valley field.
Courtesy: Provincial Archives of Alberta, H. Pollard Collection (P 1973)
