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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.
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]
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.
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 .
In 2015 Suncor courted Canadian Oil Sands, the largest owner of the Syncrude project with 37% ownership (compared with Suncor's 12%), with proposals for acquisition and hostile takeover. [17] In January 2016 they reached an agreement with Suncor acquiring COS for C$6.6 billion, raising its Syncrude ownership to 49%. [18]
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.
Mine's was started by Tsuzo Niikura in 1985. It attracted attention in 1988 by being among the first Japanese companies to sell re-programmed ECU systems for popular Japanese sports cars. Today it sells many products, ranging from injectors to complete engines. Mine's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI
Deca Sports 2, known as Deca Sporta 2: Wii de Sports "10" Shumoku! (デカスポルタ2 Wiiでスポーツ“10”種目！, Deka Suporuta 2 Wii de Supōtsu "10" Shumoku!) in Japan, Deca Sporta 2 in Australia, and Sports Island 2 in Europe, is a sports video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Wii as the sequel to Deca Sports.