Imperial Oil Oil discovered the Leduc Woodbend Devonian oil reef in 1947, marking the beginning of the contemporary period in Canadian oil and gas development. Drilling began on the landmark discovery well Leduc No. 1 on November 20, 1946. In 1989, Imperial Oil acquired Texaco's Canadian operations. From the 1934-35 season through the 1975-76 season, Imperial Oil was a sponsor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. program "Hockey Night in Canada" for both radio and television broadcasts. In February 2013, Richard Kruger, President of ExxonMobil Production Co. and a Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corp., was appointed to be Chief Executive of Imperial
Imperial Oil Oil. His predecessor, Bruce March, left to become senior vice president of global operations for ExxonMobil Chemical Co. Besides Richard Kruger, other members of the board of directors of Imperial Oil are Krystyna Hoeg, Jack Mintz, David Sutherland, Darren Woods, Sheelagh Whittaker and Victor Young. Imperial Oil has 1700 service stations with majority owned third parties and sold 497 stations in 2016. In the late early 1990s Imperial Oil acquired retail operations from Texaco's Canadian unit Texaco Canada Incorporated. With ExxonMobil having majority ownership, Imperial Oil uses its parent company's brands, including the Esso and Mobil names for service stations,