EnCana Corporation

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EnCana Corporation

Type	Public (TSX: ECA, NYSE: ECA)
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta
Key people	Randy Eresman, President & CEO
Industry	Oil and Gas
Revenue	$3.426 billion CAD (2005) ^[1]
Employees	4,090
Website	www.encana.com

EnCana Corporation is one of the largest independently owned oil and gas companies in the world. In both 2003 and 2004 it was Canada's most profitable company. With some $3.5 billion (U.S.) in profits on $12.2 billion in revenue. Its name comes from a combination of the words "Energy", "Canada", and "Alberta". The company was formed in 2002 with the merger of PanCanadian Energy and Alberta Energy^[2], and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

EnCana is involved in operations in Alberta, northeast British Columbia, the U.S. Rocky Mountains and Nova Scotia. There have also been explorations in Brazil, Oman and Qatar. EnCana also maintains operations in Chad, France and Greenland.^[3]

On October 12th of 2006, EnCana unveiled the project of their new 59-story office headquarters building in downtown Calgary, the Bow Building. This proposed building would become Canada's second largest office building.

[edit] Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of the company are: Michael Chernoff, Ralph Cunningham, Patrick Daniel, Ian Delaney, William Fatt, Michael Grandin, Barry Harrison, Dale Lucas, Ken McCready, Valerie Nielsen, David O'Brien (EnCana), Jane Peverett, Dennis Sharp (EnCana), and James Stanford.