Contact
PO Box 2397
Virden Manitoba
R0M 2C0
ManitobaOilMuseum@gmail.com
History of Extraction
Exploration for oil and gas reserves has been occurring since April 1877! Only seven years after the birth of Manitoba through the Manitoba Act of 1870. This is when a company called the Manitoba Oil Company received a charter for petroleum exploration. Exploring entails using different technology such as seismic readers, and samples from drilling, to find layers of shale where oil and gas might be found. In 1987 the Manitoba Government published a detailed account of oil and gas in Manitoba in this small book titled, “Oil in Manitoba.”