Syncrude

This article is about Syncrude Canada Ltd. For synthetic crude oil, see synthetic crude.
Syncrude Canada Ltd.
Company typeJoint Venture
IndustryPetroleum
FoundedDecember 1964; 59 years ago (1964-12)
HeadquartersFort McMurray, Alberta
Productssynthetic crude oil
Owner
Number of employees
5,600 (2009)
Websitesyncrude.ca

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 m3/d) of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption.[1] It has approximately 5.1 billion barrels (810,000,000 m3) of proven and probable reserves (11.9 billion when including contingent and prospective resources) situated on 8 leases over 3 contiguous sites.[2] Including fully realized prospective reserves, current production capacity could be sustained for well over 90 years.[3]

As of 2021, Syncrude's Mildred Lake site remains the largest single greenhouse gas emitter in Canada. [4]

  1. ^ "Syncrude Project". Canada Oil Sands Trust. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Canadian Oil Sands Trust: Syncrude Project". Archived from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Review of Syncrude Operations". Canada Oil Sands Trust - pg 2. Retrieved 16 September 2009.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Canada.ca".[dead link]