P R O J E C T STATUS
project status
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Athabasca Region Industrial Heartland Region Cold Lake Region
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Peace River Region Northwestern Saskatchewan
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CURRENT PROJECT
CAPACITY
START-UP
REGULATORY STATUS
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION
SASKATCHEWAN REGION
SOUTH ATHABASCA REGION
INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND REGION
COLD LAKE REGION
NEW Export Pipelines
PEACE RIVER REGION
CURRENT PROJECT
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New information this month
CAPACITY
START-UP
REGULATORY STATUS
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION — MINING
Canadian Natural Resources Limited
Suncor considers Voyageur South to be a “longer-term” project and has not confirmed a start-up date.
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Horizon
Updated: Mar 2013
Canadian Natural says reliability at the Horizon plant continues to steadily improve. The company continues its strategy of staged, flexibly scheduled expansion to 250,000 barrels per day and work remains on track. Projects currently under construction are trending at or below estimates.
Voyageur South Phase 1
Updated: May 2012 120,000
TBD
Application
Syncrude Canada Ltd. Mildred Lake/Aurora
Updated: Mar 2013
Phase 1
135,000
2008
Operating
Canadian Oil Sands Limited says Syncrude is expected to produce between 105 million and 115 million barrels in 2013, incorporating a planned turnaround of Coker 8-1 in the second half of the year.
Phase 2A
10,000
2014
Construction
Base Mine Stage 1 & 2 Expansion
Phase 2B
45,000
TBD
Approved
Stage 3 Expansion
Phase 3
80,000
2017
Approved
Tranche 2
5,000
2012
Operating
290,700
1978
Operating
116,300
2006
Operating
Aurora South Train 1
100,000
2016
Approved
Aurora South Train 2
100,000
2018
Approved
Teck Resources Limited
Imperial Oil Limited Kearl
Frontier
Updated: Mar 2013
Updated: Mar 2013
Phase 1
110,000
2013
Construction
Phase 2
110,000
2015
Construction
Teck says it received the final supplemental information requests relating to the Frontier regulatory application in Q3/2012 and filed its responses in January 2013. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency estimates the federal review schedule for the project application to be approximately two years, so 2015 would be the earliest approval would be granted. A field exploration program is being developed for 2013 to acquire additional resource delineation and geotechnical information to support future engineering studies.
Phase 3 Debottleneck
70,000
2020
Approved
Phase 1
75,000
2021
Application
Phase 2
80,000
2024
Application
Phase 3
80,000
2027
Application
A decision from the federal joint review panel on the Jackpine project is expected in 2013.
Phase 4 Equinox
40,000
2030
Application
Phase 1A
100,000
2010
Operating
Total E&P Canada Ltd.
Phase 1B
100,000
TBD
Approved
Expansion
100,000
2017
Muskeg River
Commercial
155,000
2002
Expansion & Debottlenecking
115,000
TBD
Pierre River
Imperial Oil says construction on Phase 1 is complete and start-up activities are underway. The project is now expected to cost $12.9 billion, a $2-billion increase from previous estimates. At the end of Q4/2012, the company said Kearl Phase 2 was 27 per cent complete.
Shell Albian Sands
Jackpine
Updated: Dec 2012
Application Updated: Nov 2012
Joslyn North Mine
Phase 1
Operating
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION — IN SITU
Approved
Athabasca Oil Corporation
Updated: Aug 2012
Birch
A joint review panel of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and ERCB has been established to review the proposed Pierre River mine project. The timeline for the joint review panel to submit its report is 550 days (18 months) from coming into force in July 2012.
Phase 1
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Dover West Carbonates (Leduc)
Phase 1
100,000
2018
Application
Phase 2
100,000
TBD
Application
Suncor Energy Inc. •
Base Operations
Updated: Mar 2013
In March 2013, Suncor and Alberta Environment reported a release of process-affected water from its oilsands base plant into the Athabasca River, the result of a frozen and broken pipeline. The company says the incident is unacceptable and is investigating.
TBD
Updated: Dec 2012 Announced Updated: Mar 2013
AOS says it has completed a third production phase at its Dover West TAGD pilot, confirming the production of bitumen from between the two horizontal wellbores, indicating good mobilization at temperatures around 90 degress Celsius. AOS says it is very encouraged by these results and will seek corporate sanction of the demonstration project as soon as regulatory approval (anticipated this year) is received.
Phase 1 Demonstration
6,000
2015
Phase 2 Demonstration
6,000
TBD
Dover West Sands & Clastics
Application Application Updated: Dec 2012
4,000
2007
Operating
23,000
2008
Operating
In 2012, AOS acquired approximately 30,000 acres of oilsands leases contiguous to its existing Dover West assets. The company says its Dover West Sands project could now eventually support development up to 270,000 barrels per day. Regulatory approval and internal sanction for the first 12,000-barrel-per-day phase are expected in 2013. AOS says it is leveraging work done on FEED for its Hangingstone project for Dover West.
Operating
Phase 1
12,000
2015
Application
Phase 2
35,000
2018
Announced
Phase 3
35,000
2020
Announced
Steepbank Debottleneck Phase 3
Millennium Debottlenecking
North Steepbank Extension
180,000
2012
Fort Hills
Updated: Mar 2013
A sanction decision on Fort Hills is expected in the second half of 2013.
Debottleneck
12,000
Approved
Operating
2018
1967
Millennium Mine
Phase 1
100,000
294,000
Updated: Mar 2013
Project partner Suncor Energy says an updated timing for the Joslyn sanction decision will be made available when it is ready.
165,000
2016
Approved
Phase 4
35,000
2022
Announced
25,000
TBD
Approved
Phase 5
35,000
2024
Announced
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