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- With high value production and improvement actions ongoing, Syncrude is a strategic asset in our company's portfolio. Syncrude is a joint venture established to recover shallow deposits of oil sands using open-pit mining methods to extract bitumen and upgrade it to produce a high-quality, light (32 degree API), sweet, synthetic crude oil.
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Based north of Fort McMurray, and with a large research and development facility in Edmonton, Syncrude is a joint venture operated by Suncor that includes the Mildred Lake and Aurora oil sands facilities.
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.
Jul 1, 2016 · There are actually only three marketable crude oil blends derived from the oil sands: Dilbit, Synbit and Synthetic Crude. Dilbit is a relatively clean bitumen (containing less than 0.5% water and solids) diluted with condensate, in the order of 20 to 40% by volume.
Apr 21, 2022 · Synthetic crude is virtually free of impurities, contains very little sulphur (even less than conventional light oil) and no residue. It is very easy to refine, and can be sold to simpler refineries. For this reason, synthetic crude sells at a premium to conventional light oil in Western Canada.
Apr 11, 2019 · The Syncrude oil sands plant is seen north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The oil sands give Alberta the third largest reserves in the world, but extracting the oil is energy-intensive and...
Syncrude is a joint venture established to recover shallow deposits of oil sands using open-pit mining methods to extract bitumen and upgrade it to produce a high-quality, light (32 degree API), sweet, synthetic crude oil. Syncrude leases cover about 63,000 net acres.
Learn how oil is produced from one of the largest operators in Canada's growing oil sands industry. Based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and with a large researc...
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