Whois & Analysis for petro-canada.ca

Petro-Canada is a retail and wholesale marketing brand of Suncor Energy.

Until 1990, it was a crown corporation of Canada (as a state trading enterprise), headquartered at the Petro-Canada Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

In August 2009, Petro-Canada merged with Suncor Energy, with Suncor shareholders receiving approximately 60 percent ownership of the combined company and Petro-Canada shareholders receiving approximately 40 percent.

The company retained the Suncor Energy name for the merged corporation and its upstream operations.

It continues to use the Petro-Canada brand nationwide, except in Newfoundland and Labrador, for downstream retail operations.

A car wash (also written as "carwash") or auto wash is a facility used to clean the exterior and, in some cases, the interior of motor vehicles.

Car washes can be self-serve, fully automated, or full-service with attendants who wash the vehicle.

A filling station is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles.

The most common fuels sold in the 2010s are gasoline (gasoline or gas in the U.S. and Canada, generally petrol elsewhere) and diesel fuel.

A filling station that sells only electric energy is also known as a charging station, while a typical filling station can also be known as a fuelling station, garage (South Africa and United Kingdom), gasbar (Canada), gas station (United States and Canada), gasoline stand (Japan), petrol pump or petrol bunk (India), petrol garage, petrol station (Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and United Kingdom), service station (Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom), a services (United Kingdom), or servo (Australia).

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases chemical or nuclear energy as heat or to be used for work.

The concept was originally applied solely to those materials capable of releasing chemical energy but has since also been applied to other sources of heat energy such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission and nuclear fusion).

Diesel fuel in general is any liquid fuel used in diesel engines, whose fuel ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel.

(Glow plugs, grid heaters and heater blocks help achieve high temperatures for combustion during engine startup in cold weather) Diesel engines have found broad use as a result of higher thermodynamic efficiency and thus fuel efficiency.

This is particularly noted where diesel engines are run at part-load; as their air supply is not throttled as in a petrol engine, their efficiency still remains very high.