10 Facts About Petro-Canada

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

Petro-Canada retained the Suncor Energy name for the merged corporation and its upstream operations.

Petro-Canada was founded as a Crown Corporation in 1975 by an act of Parliament.

In 1976, Petro-Canada purchased Atlantic Richfield Canada, in 1978 Pacific Petroleums, and in 1981 the Canadian operations of Petrofina.

Petro-Canada had a lubricants plant in Mississauga, Ontario, but Suncor sold the unit to HollyFrontier in late 2016.

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In January 2019, Petro-Canada installed electric vehicle charging stations at one of their gas stations in Milton, Ontario, making it the company's first EV chargers.

In 2006, Petro-Canada launched a pre-paid wireless carrier known as Petro-Canada Mobility.

Petro-Canada previously offered a co-branded Petro Points MasterCard in partnership with Citibank Canada.

Around 220 Petro-Canada outlets include a "SuperWash" car wash; the majority of these operations use soft touch systems, but some feature touchless equipment instead.

In February 2019, Suncor, the parent company of Petro-Canada, announced that it would be installing a national electric vehicle charging network at Petro-Canada stations at over 50 locations across the country.