Official website (https://www.syncrude.ca/)
Syncrude
Sign in to saveSyncrude 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 of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption. It has approximately of proven and probable reserves (11.9 billion when including contingent and prospective resources) situated on 8 leases over 3 contiguous sites. Including fully realized prospective reserves, current production capacity could be sustained for well over 90 years.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1964
- Location
- Fort McMurray, Canada
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.292947.3 · ISNI 0000 0001 0747 0580
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- joint venture
- Country
- Canada
- Headquarters
- Fort McMurray
- Industry
- petroleum industry
- Legal form
- corporation
- Official website
- www.syncrude.ca
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- inception
- 1964-01-01
- product or material produced
- petroleum
- social media followers
- 19138
- Commons category
- Syncrude Mildred Lake site
- number of viewers/listeners
- 2630758
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Ownership
- Controversies
- Pollution
- Oil sands tailings pond water
- Greenpeace lawsuit
- Sponsorships
- Keyano College
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption. It has approximately of proven and probable reserves (11.9 billion when including contingent and prospective resources) situated on 8 leases over 3 contiguous sites. Including fully realized prospective reserves, current production capacity could be sustained for well over 90 years.
As of 2021, Syncrude's Mildred Lake site remains the largest single greenhouse gas emitter in Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Syncrude” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.