(a) carry on other business that seems to the corporation capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with its business or calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of or make profitable the property or rights of the corporation;
(b) acquire and undertake the assets, business, property, privileges, contracts, rights, obligations and liabilities of another person carrying on a business that the corporation is authorized to carry on, or possessed of property suitable for the purposes of the corporation;
(c) apply for or acquire patents, patent rights, copyrights, trade marks, formulae, licences, concessions and the like, conferring a right to use, or secret or other information as to, an invention that seems capable of being used for the purposes of the corporation, or the acquisition of which seems calculated directly or indirectly to benefit the corporation, and use, exercise, develop or grant licences in respect of, or otherwise turn to account, the property, rights or information acquired;
(d) acquire a right, title or interest as set out in the petroleum regulations;
(e) participate in provincial leases in the form of direct participation or carried interest in accordance with the petroleum regulations;
(f) enter into partnership or into an arrangement for sharing of profits, union of interests, co-operation, joint venture, reciprocal concession or otherwise, with another person carrying on or engaged in or about to carry on or engage in a business or transaction that the corporation is authorized to carry on or engage in, or a business or transaction capable of being conducted so as to directly or indirectly benefit the corporation; and lend money to, guarantee the contracts of, or otherwise help that person;
(g) acquire and hold shares, debentures or other securities of another corporation having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the corporation, or carrying on a business capable of being conducted so as, directly or indirectly, to benefit the corporation, and sell or otherwise deal with the shares, debentures or other securities;
(h) obtain, purchase and sell an interest in petroleum permits, leases or other petroleum rights;
(i) assign for financing or other purposes part of its holdings, in the form of farm outs, overriding royalties or through other methods, to a company, financial institution or other organization;
(j) obtain royalties in kind on behalf of the province with the approval of the minister, but the corporation shall pay the province the full value of those royalties under the petroleum regulations;
(k) notwithstanding the bidding procedure set out in the petroleum regulations, acquire upon application 1 or more permits up to a total of 10 permits on the basis of the conditions set out in the petroleum regulations;
(l) enter into arrangements with a government or authority that seem conducive to the attainment of the objects of the corporation and obtain from the government or authority rights, privileges and concessions, and carry out, exercise and comply with those arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions;
(m) establish and support or help in the establishment and support of associations calculated to benefit employees or former employees of the corporation, or the dependants or connections of those persons, and make payments towards insurance in respect of those persons;
(n) subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects, or for an exhibition or for a public, general or useful object;
(o) promote a corporation for the purpose of acquiring or taking over a part of the property and liabilities of the corporation, or for another purpose that seems directly or indirectly calculated to benefit the corporation;
(p) acquire, hold, sell, lease, exchange or otherwise deal with real and personal property and rights or privileges that the corporation thinks necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business;
(q) construct, improve, maintain, work, manage, carry out or control works and conveniences that seem calculated directly or indirectly to advance the interests of the corporation, and contribute to, subsidize or otherwise help or take part in the construction, improvement, maintenance, working, management, carrying out or control of those works and conveniences;
(r) lend money to persons having dealings with the corporation or with whom the corporation proposes to have dealings or to another corporation whose shares are held by the corporation;
(s) draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants and other negotiable or transferable instruments;
(t) sell or dispose of a part of the undertaking of the corporation for the consideration that the corporation thinks appropriate;
(u) apply for, secure, acquire by grant, legislative enactment, assignment, transfer, purchase or otherwise and exercise, carry out and enjoy a charter, licence, power, authority, franchise, concession, right or privilege that a government or authority or a corporation or other public body may be empowered to grant, and pay for, help in and contribute toward carrying the charter, licence, power, authority, franchise, concession, right or privilege into effect, and appropriate the corporation's debentures and assets to defray the necessary costs, charges and expenses;
(v) procure the registration and recognition of the corporation in a province, foreign country or place, and designate persons there according to the laws of the province, foreign country or place to represent the corporation and to accept service for and on behalf of the corporation of a process or suit;
(w) remunerate a person for services rendered, or to be rendered, in placing or helping to place or guaranteeing the placing of debentures or other securities of the corporation;
(x) raise and help in raising money for, and to help by way of bonus, promise, endorsement, guarantee or otherwise, another corporation with which the corporation may have business relations or whose shares, debentures or other securities are held by the corporation and to guarantee the performance or fulfilment of contracts or obligations of such a corporation or of other persons with whom the corporation may have business relations, and in particular to guarantee the payment of the principal of and interest on debentures or other securities, mortgages and liabilities of such a corporation;
(y) adopt the means of making known the products of the corporation that seem expedient;
(z) distribute to the shareholders of the corporation in kind, specie or otherwise, property or assets of the corporation including proceeds of the sale or disposition of property of the corporation and in particular shares, debentures, or other securities of or in another corporation belonging to the corporation, or of which it may have power to dispose, if the distribution, apart from this paragraph, would have been lawful if made in cash;
(aa) establish agencies, subsidiaries and branches;
(bb) invest and deal with the money of the corporation;
(cc) apply for, promote and obtain a statute, ordinance, order, regulation or other authorization or enactment that seems calculated directly or indirectly to benefit the corporation; and oppose a proceeding or application that seems calculated directly or indirectly to prejudice the interests of the corporation;
(dd) take or hold mortgages, liens and charges to secure payment of the purchase price, or for an unpaid balance of the purchase price of a part of the property of the corporation of whatever kind sold by the corporation or money due to the corporation from purchasers and others and sell or otherwise dispose of the mortgages, liens and charges;
(ee) promote education and training, research and development and economical, managerial and technical knowledge about the petroleum industry in the province;
(ff) carry out the objects of the corporation and do the things set out in this subsection as principal, agent, contractor, or otherwise, either alone or in conjunction with others; and
(gg) do those things that are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objects and the exercise of the powers of the corporation.