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Syncrude Tailings Dam, Fort McMurray, Alberta. A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive. Solid tailings are often used as ...
Syncrude Canada Ltd. is one of the world's largest producers of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada.It is located just outside Fort McMurray in the Athabasca Oil Sands, and has a nameplate capacity of 350,000 barrels per day (56,000 m 3 /d) of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption. [1]
The Syncrude Tailings Dam, impounding the Mildred Lake Settling Basin (MLSB), is an embankment dam that is, by volume of construction material, the largest earth structure in the world in 2001. [1] It is located 40 km (25 mi) north of Fort McMurray , Alberta, Canada, at the northern end of the Mildred Lake lease area owned by Syncrude Canada Ltd .
The Alberta Energy Company Ltd. was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed from 1973 to 2002. The AEC was created by the Government of Alberta under Premier Peter Lougheed as a mechanism for Albertans to invest in the Syncrude oil sands project.
Oil sand tailings or oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), have a highly variable composition and a complex mixture of compounds. [4] In his oft-cited 2008 journal article, E. W. Allen wrote that typically tailings ponds consist of c. 75% water, c. 25% sand, silt and clay, c.2% of residual bitumen, as well as dissolved salts, organics, and minerals.
Western Canada is the source of all products transported by Pembina pipeline systems which include the Syncrude pipeline, Horizon pipeline, and Cheecham oilsands pipelines. Pembina Pipeline Corporation became an income fund (trust) in 1997 joining the Toronto Stock Exchange with an IPO of $600 million.
English: Aerial view from 40,000 feet, looking southeast, of Syncrude Mildred Lake site, an Athabasca oil sands mine works in northeast Alberta, including the Syncrude Tailings Dam and basin (to left of the bright yellow sulfur stockpiles), with Mildred Lake and the Athabasca River in the background (partially obscured by clouds), and other oil sands works in the area
Synthetic crude is the output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production. It may also refer to shale oil, an output from an oil shale pyrolysis.