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Suncor was created by Sun Oil in 1979 by the merger of its Canadian conventional and heavy oil companies, the Sun Oil Company and Great Canadian Oil Sands. Until 2010, Suncor marketed products and services to retail customers in Ontario through a downstream network of 780 company-owned, and 700 customer-operated retail and Diesel fuel sites ...
Suncor hoped this would reduce the time for water reclamation from tailings to weeks rather than years, with the recovered water being recycled into the oil sands plant. Suncor claimed the mature fines tailings process would reduce the number of tailing ponds and shorten the time to reclaim a tailing pond from 40 years at present to 7–10 ...
The Canadian oil sands produced an average of 1.9 million barrels per day (mmbpd) in 2012. This equates to a little more than 10% of America's 2012 oil consumption. Not only do the oil sands ...
The Alberta oil sands have been in commercial production since the original Great Canadian Oil Sands (now Suncor Energy) mine began operation in 1967. Syncrude 's second mine began operation in 1978 and is the biggest mine of any type in the world.
The Base Plant in northern Alberta is Suncor's largest oil sands project, producing 357,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude from its two upgraders. Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's second-largest ...
Two workers were killed in a vehicle collision at Suncor Energy's Fort Hills oil sands mine in northern Alberta, a Suncor spokeswoman said on Wednesday, prompting the company to halt mine ...
The Suncor plant was a landmark in oil sands development. It pioneered technology for bitumen extraction and upgrading, and it was the world's first large-scale commercial plant. It pioneered technology for bitumen extraction and upgrading, and it was the world's first large-scale commercial plant.
Suncor Energy is one of the cheapest integrated oil companies today, as lack of pipeline capacity is keeping bitumen prices low compared to other worldwide crude benchmarks. The Canadian giant ...