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The Alberta Stock Exchange (ASE) was a stock exchange based in Calgary, Alberta, established in 1913. [1] It featured mostly mining, resource exploration, and oil sands stocks. The ASE was the original listing exchange for Bre-X, one of the biggest corporate frauds in Canadian history. [2]
Oil sands were by then the source of 62% of Alberta's total oil production and 47% of all oil produced in Canada. [33] As of 2010, oil sands production had increased to over 1.6 million barrels per day (250,000 m 3 /d) to exceed conventional oil production in Canada. 53% of this was produced by surface mining and 47% by in-situ techniques.
As of 2009, Syncrude and Irving Oil were leaders in the Canadian industry, with Syncrude being the top producer of oil sands crude and Irving Oil operating the largest oil refinery in the country. [5] Canadian oil company profits quickly recovered following the 2008 financial crisis; In 2009 they were down 90% but in 2010 they reached $8.4 billion.
MEG Energy is a pure play Canadian oil sands producer engaged in exploration in Northern Alberta.All of its oil reserves are more than 1,000 feet (300 m) below the surface, so they depend on steam-assisted gravity drainage and associated technology to produce (heavy bitumen must first be brought to the surface).
However the biggest constraint on oil sands development is a serious labor and housing shortage in Alberta as a whole and the oil sands centre of Fort McMurray in particular. According to Statistics Canada , by September, 2006 unemployment rates in Alberta had fallen to record low levels [ 7 ] and per-capita incomes had risen to double the ...
JACOS started oil sands activities in the Athabasca area in 1978 on leases held by Petro-Canada, Canadian Occidental (Nexen) and Imperial Oil to form the PCEJ group. [2] It was the first Asian-owned oil company to exploit the Athabasca oil sands. [3]
Suncor is the world's largest producer of bitumen, and owns and operates an oil sands upgrading plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Originally developed by Great Canadian Oil Sands, a majority-owned subsidiary of Sun Oil, it is now wholly owned by the independent Suncor.
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]