P R O J E C T S TAT U S
P R O J E C T S TAT U S
12.11 PROJECT STATUS
Athabasca Region Industrial Heartland Region Cold Lake Region
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Peace River Region Northwestern Saskatchewan
CURRENT PROJECT
Phase 3
Dover West Leduc Carbonates
CAPACITY
35,000
START-UP
2021
REGULATORY STATUS
CURRENT PROJECT
Announced
Updated: Aug 2011
AOSC says that its first test (steam injection) last winter has added 140 million barrels of contingent resource to its profile. Construction of a thermal assisted gravity drainage heating test pilot is complete. Heating—using electrical cables—is underway and observation wells indicate that the heat is spreading, confirming predictions. Production results are expected once the area can be
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CAPACITY
START-UP
REGULATORY STATUS
Phase 1
60,000
2022
Announced
Phase 2
60,000
2026
Announced
The project, which would incorporate electrical heaters, has been delayed. Laricina Energy’s May
CURRENT PROJECT
CAPACITY
Phase 1 Demonstration
6,000
TBD
Application
Updated: Sep 2011
Cenovus expects to submit a revised application increasing Phase A production capacity from
10,000
2014
Approved
TBD
Approved
Phase 3
80,000
TBD
Approved
Tranche 1 (Engineering/Design)
--
2007
Complete
Tranche 2
5,000
2012
Construction
Imperial Oil Limited •
Kearl
Updated: Nov 2011
Imperial Oil says that construction is 79 per cent complete and is progressing on schedule, with start-up targeted for late 2012. In response to delays in obtaining U.S. states’ transportation permits for certain modules, Imperial says modules have been reduced in size and permits for additional interstate highway routes have been received. Transport increased in Q3 and re-assembly is underway.
Updated: Aug 2011
to a strong second half of the year. Millennium Debottlenecking
Millennium Mine
North Steepbank Extension
Steepbank Debottleneck Phase 3
Fort Hills
23,000 294,000 180,000 4,000
2008
Operating
1967
Operating
2012 2007
Construction Operating
Phase 1
110,000
2012
Construction
Phase 2
235,000
TBD
Approved
Shell Albian Sands Jackpine
Updated: Nov 2011
Shell says that the AOSP expansion 1 has ramped up and is expected to stabilize at plateau rates
Updated: Nov 2011
35,000 barrels per day to 90,000 barrels per day in the fourth quarter. The company says it is making progress on its plans for a transaction involving the project, and interested parties are now
Dover Operating Corp.
Dover
Updated: May 2011
AOSC filed its regulatory application for a 250,000-barrel-per-day project at Dover in December 2010. Approval anticipated in 2012.
Approved
Muskeg River
Commercial
155,000
2002
Operating
Expansion & Debottlenecking
115,000
TBD
Approved
Pierre River
Updated: Nov 2010
Updated: Sep 2011
Phase 1
100,000
2018
Application
Phase 2
100,000
TBD
Application
SilverBirch Energy Corporation
Updated: Aug 2011
Silverbirch has completed its design basis memorandum and cost estimate for the Frontier/Equinox project. All four phases cost up to $22.9 billion. The company remains open to partnering and other
Phase 1
12,000
2012
Construction
Phase 2A
12,000
2015
Announced
Phase 2B
12,000
TBD
Announced
Phase 1
Subsequent Phases
ing a 2016 start-up. Project still must be sanctioned and does not include upgrader portion.
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Mackay River
The result of the put/call agreement for the MacKay River assets between Dover OpCo owners
from infill wells. Construction of infastructure, well pads, and central plant and cogeneration
Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. and PetroChina should be known in the fourth quarter of January 2012.
facilities continues on Firebag Stage 4.
Phase 1
35,000
2014
Application
Cogeneration and Expansion
25,000
2007
Operating
Phase 2
40,000
2017
Application
Stage 1
35,000
2004
Operating
Phase 3
40,000
2019
Application
Stage 2
35,000
2006
Operating
Phase 4
35,000
TBD
Application
Stage 3
62,500
2011
Operating
Stage 3-6 Debottleneck
23,000
TBD
Application
Stage 4
62,500
2013
Construction
Stage 5
62,500
2018
Approved
Stage 6
62,500
2019
Approved
Application
Lewis
Operating
Phase 1
40,000
TBD
Application
Phase 2
40,000
TBD
Application
MacKay River
Suncor expects to progress with engineering and site preparation work at the Fort Hills mine, targetDebottleneck
Phase 1
Voyageur South
Phase 1
25,000 165,000
TBD 2016
Approved Approved Updated: Nov 2010
120,000
TBD
Application
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Mildred Lake/Aurora North & South
Updated: Nov 2011
Canadian Oil Sands reports that front-end engineering and design is now complete for its
E-T Energy Ltd.
$4.6-billion Mildred Lake mine train replacements. The target in-service date for the $1.6-billion
Syncrude Emissions Reduction Project has now been extended into the first quarter of 2012.
Aurora South Train 1
100,000
2016
Approved
Stage 3 Expansion
116,300
2006
Operating
Total E&P Canada Ltd.
50,000
2015
Application
200,000
TBD
Application Updated: Nov 2011
Poplar Creek
Updated: May 2011
E-T has announced a deal (undisclosed value) with Total E&P Canada for ongoing testing, as well as $6.86 million in funding from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. E-T
Joslyn North Mine
Phase 1
Joslyn South Mine
Phase 1
Northern Lights Mine
Phase 1
Phase 2
Updated: Aug 2011 100,000
2018
Approved Updated: Dec 2010
100,000
TBD
Announced Updated: Nov 2010
57,250 57,250
TBD TBD
On Hold On Hold
Athabasca Oil Sands Corp.
Phase 1 Pilot
10,000 1,000
2014 2007
Husky Energy Inc.
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION — IN SITU
Frontier
Suncor Energy Inc.
TBD
Updated: Aug 2011
equipment. Drilling of the first well pad is complete and the second is about 50 per cent complete.
Operating
100,000
STP McKay
including completion of central plant site and well pad civil work and procurement of all major
1978
Phase 1B
Announced
290,700
Southern Pacific Resource Corp.
Application
Base Mine Stage 1 & 2 Expansion
Operating
On Hold
TBD
2010
TBD
TBD
mines is deemed complete and has been referred to a joint-review panel.
100,000
TBD
15,000
anticipates regulatory approval for its commerical project in 2011.
Phase 1A
Pilot
35,000
Approved
Phase B
2018
Approved
Updated: May 2011
Phase A
100,000
2017
Grosmont
Aurora South Train 2
100,000
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Expansion
Application
Southern Pacific says construction is advancing on budget, with a number of milestones achieved,
shortly. The environmental impact assessment for both the Jackpine expansion and Pierre River
2013
Updated: May 2011
Syncrude Canada Ltd.
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Base Operations
Telephone Lake Borealis
viewing information about the opportunity.
Suncor says that with major maintenance now behind it at its oilsands facilities, it is looking forward
1,720
Canada’s Grosmont acreage.
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Pilot
purchase of additional leases in the Grosmont carbonate zone included “non-core” portions of Shell
REGULATORY STATUS
Suncor Energy Inc.
Oak Point Energy reports that engineering and procurement is ongoing.
START-UP
of August post-fire repairs. Saipem has been awarded the EPC contract for a secondary upgrader
45,000
Updated: Nov 2011
Canadian Natural is reporting that synthetic crude oil shipments from Horizon resumed at the end
Phase 2B
Lewis
Birch Mountain
Announced
Phase 2A
Oak Point Energy Ltd.
TBD
Announced
New information this month
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PEACE RIVER REGION
40,000
Updated: Sep 2011
Canadian Natural Resources Limited
Phase 4 Equinox
Operating
2016
NEW Export Pipelines
2008
12,000
COLD LAKE REGION
Canadian Natural Resources Limited
135,000
Pilot
Announced
Phase 1
Birchwood
INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND REGION
TBD
SOUTH ATHABASCA REGION
80,000
with production capacity of 42,599 bpd of hydrotreated gas oil as part of the Hydrotreater Phase 2.
Application
accessed on winter roads.
Phase 3
Updated: Sep 2011
TBD
SASKATCHEWAN REGION
Horizon
20,000
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION
NORTH ATHABASCA REGION — MINING
REGULATORY STATUS
Marathon Oil Corporation
•
Cenovus Energy Inc. CURRENT PROJECT
Phase 2
START-UP
CAPACITY
Dover West Clastics
Updated: Aug 2011
Sunrise
Updated: Aug 2011
Firebag
Updated: Aug 2011
First oil from Firebag Stage 3 achieved as planned in July. Production volumes expected to ramp up to capacity of 62,500 barrels per day over the next 24 months. In July, it also started production
Updated: Dec 2010
Updated: Mar 2011
Husky says that the Sunrise project continues to achieve its milestones, with the first 12 of 49 SAGD
Suncor says that higher bitumen supply from its in situ and mining projects and greater upgrader
well pairs recently completed on schedule. The full drilling program is forecast to be complete in the
reliability resulted in record production rates in the fourth quarter of 2010. The company has
third quarter of 2012. A full field development plan including Sunrise expansions is expected by the
confirmed that the MacKay River expansion is a key part of its near-term plans and will spend
end of the year.
$70 million on the project in 2011.
Phase 1
60,000
2014
Construction
MR2
40,000
2016
Application
Phase 2
50,000
2016
Approved
Phase 1
33,000
2002
Operating
Phase 3
50,000
TBD
Approved
Sunshine Oilsands Ltd.
Phase 4
50,000
TBD
Approved
Ivanhoe Energy Inc.
Harper
Updated: May 2011
Sunshine Oilsands has raised $230 million and secured significant investments including from
options to progress its projects to commercialization. Regulatory application to be filed before the
AOSC reports that it is on track to submit regulatory applications for its Dover West projects before
Tamarack
end of 2011.
year-end 2011.
Ivanhoe has been issued a new Canadian patent for its HTL (heavy-to-light) oil technology, broad-
single-well CSS test. Results from the test were presented to the ERCB, which subsequently encouraged the company to continue investigation of the formation through extension of its pilot permit.
Phase 1
80,000
2020
Announced
Phase 1
12,000
2015
Announced
ening and expanding its IP in Canada.
Phase 2
80,000
TBD
Announced
Phase 2
35,000
2018
Announced
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Phase 1
Updated: Aug 2011
20,000
2013
Application
China Life Overseas and Bank of China Group. At Harper, it reports it has successfully conducted a
Carbonate Pilot
1,000
2011
Operating
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