Petrochemical Industry

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Prosperous petrochemical cluster

Central Alberta is home to an extensive petrochemical cluster of approximately 36 chemical and petrochemical manufacturers, including Nova Chemicals, the world's largest ethylene production facility.

This cluster's competitive advantage comes from access to abundant low-cost feed stocks and the sharing of ancillary services such as utilities, co-generation storage, emergency services and waste disposal. These businesses are also tied into an intricate transportation network of rail, road and pipeline routes.

Talented specialists

Central Alberta's petrochemical industry employs over 1,600 people and each job is estimated to create a spin-off of another 2.5 jobs in the local economy (Canadian Chemical Producers Association PDF).

Our petrochemical sector workers are educated and highly skilled. In fact, this industry has the largest percentage of workers with university degrees than any other. (Central Alberta Economic Partnership PDF). More on Central Alberta's talented workforce. 

The future of petrochemicals

The success of this industry is built on a secure supply of feedstock, low cost natural gas and access to global markets with competitively-priced products (Alberta Energy: Value Added Development). And Central Alberta's access to the oil sands will prove increasingly important as research continues into the use of off-gases from bitumen upgrading as an additional feedstock. (Alberta Energy: Petrochemicals)

Please contact us for more information on Central Alberta's thriving petrochemical cluster and how your business will fit in.