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In 1980, a plant in Cold Lake was one of just two oil sands plants under construction in Alberta. [4] Although not developed as quickly and extensively as originally envisioned, an Imperial Oil plant in Cold Lake became the largest in situ oil sands project constructed in Alberta during the 1980s. By 1991, its daily oil production was 90,000 ...
The area serviced by area codes 204, 431, and 584 in blue with neighbouring provinces, territories, and U.S. states in other colours Area codes 204, 431, and 584 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Manitoba .
Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Ltée) is a Canadian petroleum company. [2] It is Canada's second-largest integrated oil company. It is majority-owned by American oil company ExxonMobil, with a 69.6% ownership stake in the company. [5]
The Athabasca oil sands is the only large oil field in the world suitable for surface mining, while the Cold Lake oil sands and the Peace River oil sands must be produced by drilling. [14] With the advancement of extraction methods, bitumen and economical synthetic crude are produced at costs nearing that of conventional crude.
The Athabasca oil sands, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) according to Government of Alberta's Ministry of Energy, [12] Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
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On May 17, 2017, Foster Creek and Christina Lake became 100 percent owned and operated by Cenovus. [7] In December 2021, Cenovus announced the sale of the Tucker oil sands project to Strathcona Resources. [12] In June 2022, Cenovus announced it would acquire the outstanding 50% interest in the Sunrise oil sands asset and assume full ownership. [13]
It is the biggest transporter of oil sands' bitumen (over 1 million bbls/d after the Cold Lake oil sands upgrade) [6] and in 2010 it was Alberta's 23rd fastest growing business. [7] Soon after the millennium, the energy infrastructure business was divided into 4 segments: conventional oil pipelines, natural gas extraction , liquid storage and ...