Oil sands capex ran at about C$30bn annually before 2014, according to Alberta's energy regulator. It was a period of high crude prices and a rush of inward investment. By 2021, though, the ...

Oil Sands. Energy companies use surface mining to recover resources from about 20 per cent of Alberta's oil sands. It's our job to ensure that companies extract oil from the sand responsibly. Once a company has finished mining in an area, we also regulate how the land is returned to its original (or equivalent) state.

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The Motley Fool recently compiled a list of the some very interesting oil-sands statistics. Here are a few of them, plus a few from MINING: 168 billion barrels. Canada hs 173 billion barrels ...

check out our latest online course mining the oil sands. 2024 monthly bitumen production [3] from mining thousand bbl/day • data by aer. annual bitumen production [3] from mining thousand bbl/day • data by capp & aer. 2023 ytd bitumen production [3] by mine operator (gross)

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Although open-pit oil sands mines have a lot in common with traditional hard-rock mines (such as gold or copper), oil sands operators have some unique challenges due to the softness of the …

CALGARY - The CANADIAN AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL gave an award of merit to SYNCRUDE, and FINNING (CANADA) for their collaborative work to develop technologically advanced mining equipment for use by the oil sands industry. The council made the award at a luncheon on Nov. 8.

Recovering the Oil MINING METHOD STAGE 1: Large shovels scoop the oil sands into trucks. STAGE 2: Crushers break down clumps of material to enable transportion to the plant for extraction. STAGE 3: Bitumen is extracted from the oil sands using separation processes. Of the oil sands reserves, 20% are close enough to the

Interest in building full upgraders dwindled prior to the 2014 downturn in oil prices amid soaring costs and as the U.S. fracking boom sent a surge of light oil onto the market, depressing prices ...

Last week the Fort McKay First Nation (FMFN) and Suncor Energy (TSX: SU; NYSE: SU) said they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a prospective oil sands lease opportunity on Fort McKay reserves lands in Wood Buffalo, Alta., and Fort McKay Traditional Territory. Under the MOU, Suncor is undertaking early …

Original equipment manufacturers: Turning mining challenges into advantages. ... KSB understood that when it came to tailings management in remote areas – such as the Canadian oil sands – a key solution was needed that combined innovation and efficiency. Mollie Timmerman, oil sands business development manager at GIW …

Suncor Energy implements first commercial fleet of autonomous haul trucks in the oil sands - MINING. Suncor | January 31, 2018 | 12:18 am Energy Canada. At the Suncor oil sands mine,...

JWN Energy | August 1, 2018 | 12:49 pm Energy Canada. Image: Adobe Stock Photos. Imperial Oil says it has commenced and is ready to expand field testing of driverless oilsands heavy haulers....

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Suppliers Equipment; TOP 50; USA; Canada; Australia; Regions. Africa; ... At the Suncor oil sands mine, huge 240 to 380 tonne trucks deliver about 500,000 tonnes of oil sand per day to the ore ...

By Canadian Mining Journal Staff October 1, 2006 At 5:00 pm. ALBERTA - CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES (CNRL) of Calgary has order three new 4100C Boss rope shovels from P&H MINEPRO SERVICES CANADA. The shovels will be used to mine oil sands at CNRL's $6.8-billion Horizon project near Fort McMurray. The new Boss …

New ways to exploit oil sands. It takes a very rich prize to attract serious research dollars, but the bitumen (oil sands) resources of northern Alberta (and Saskatchewan) are just that. According to 2004 figures from the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, this region contains a resource of 270 billion m3 of bitumen–equivalent to the ...

Quick Facts. Program Director: Dr. Gary Fisher. Focused on improving equipment reliability and durability in oilsands mining. Applied research, development and deployment driven and directed by industry. Membership includes four oilsands mining companies and more than 40 equipment and materials manufacturers. Consortium established in 2008.

External factors include unexpected equipment downtime and weather events that affect the characteristics of the road and performance of the equipment. Weather events such as large amounts of rainfall or thawing snow make the material on oil sands haul roads even softer, and can create ruts on the surface that increase rolling resistance

Data. Disturbed oil sands surface mineable area equalled roughly 895 km² in 2013, accounting for less than 1% of the total oil sands area. This makes up about 0.2% of Alberta's boreal forest, which covers over 381,000 km². Oil sands mine reclamation and disturbance tracking by year is a sustainability indicator found in the oil sands ...

The large oil sands mine currently leverages Argus on its six P&H shovels to optimize payload performance. This case study details how the Key Account Manager (KAM) team helped the mine implement the Argus Payload Management system on their remaining CAT495 electric rope shovels, which led to substantial improvements in under …

The NDP government in Alberta has appointed a well-known climate change activist and anti-oil sands campaigner to co-chair an advisory board on climate change. The move by the Rachel Notley-led ...

Think of oil sands mining, and images of mammoth machinery, digging and hauling bitumensoaked sand from pits to processing plants, immediately spring to ... 3:48 pm Energy Suppliers & Equipment .

Oil sands technology questioned after series of leaks polluting aquifers. Cecilia Jamasmie | December 22, 2014 | 5:19 pm.

By a slim majority, Canadians agree that the "overall, the benefits of development of the oil sands in Canada outweigh the negatives.". But despite frequent and widely-publicized anti-oil ...

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Imperial's Kearl Project was the next mega-project in the oil sands, consisting of a mine and bitumen production plant. The facility was built in two phases, and now has a production capacity of about 240,000 …

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Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A | TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada's largest diversified miner, is exiting the oilsands business with the sale of its 21.3% stake in the Fort Hills project to Suncor Energy (TSX: …