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
Barrel bombs in Palestine and Israel Three of the attackers were killed and two taken prisoner [see image right]. Meanwhile, in the oil port of Haifa, where the first barrel bomb had been used in September against the British, Irgun turned the weapon against Arab civilians. On December 30, 1947, Jewish assailants rolled a barrel bomb from the back of a fast moving taxi into a group of Arabs waiting in line to enter an oil refinery where they were employed. The refinery employed Jewish and Arab workers and after the bombing distraught Arabs "went berserk". They killed fellow workers by beating, stabbing and kicking them