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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]
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
Gold mine tailings near Krugersdorp, South Africa. Tailings stratification is the layering of tailings due to the distribution in particle size as well as the difference in specific density . The compactness of the sandy to silty tailings [ 13 ] influences the permeability, which will influence the drainage ability of the tailings and thus the ...
"With a long history of successful project delivery for Syncrude, we are pleased to collaborate once again with one of our premier clients on FFT-CFSP," said Karl Roberts, Senior Vice President ...
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 Syncrude mine is now the largest mine (by area) in the world, with mines potentially covering 140,000 km 2 (54,000 sq mi). [ citation needed ] (Although there is oil underlying 142,200 km 2 (54,900 sq mi), which may be disturbed by drilling and in situ extraction, only 4,800 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) may potentially be surface mined, and 904 km 2 ...
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.
Syncrude Ltd. has a full-scale, operational EPL known as Base Mine Lake, which has been under reclamation since 2012. [25] Originally West-In Pit, a tailings pond, Base Mine Lake contains 45 meters of fluid tailings are weighted down by 5 meters of water, compressing the tailings so much that the water cap is now 12 meters in depth. [57]