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Canadian oil production: conventional crude oil in red, and total petroleum liquids, including from oil sands, in black Total oil production in Canada in TWh. Petroleum production in Canada is a major industry which is important to the overall economy of North America.
In 1962 (the same year the Great Canadian Oil Sands proposal went up for approval) Cities Service Athabasca Inc. proposed a 16,000 cubic metre per day plant at the site of its Mildred Lake pilot project. Including a pipeline to Edmonton, the plant was to cost $56 million, with construction beginning in 1965 and completion in 1968.
Bituminous sands are a major source of unconventional oil, although only Canada has a large-scale commercial oil sands industry. In 2006, bitumen production in Canada averaged 1.25 Mbbl/d (200,000 m 3 /d) through 81 oil sands projects. 44% of Canadian oil production in 2007 was from oil sands. [47]
Along with U.S. tight oil plays, Canada's oil sands are one of the most promising unconventional oil resources in North America. Alberta's oil sands industry supports tens of thousands of Canadian ...
As of 2023, Canada's oil sands industry, along with Western Canada and offshore petroleum facilities near Newfoundland and Labrador, continued to increase production and were projected to increase by an estimated 10% in 2024 representing a potential record high at the end of the year of approximately 5.3 million barrels per day (bpd). [4]
The boom in Alberta's oil sands was initially hailed as a hugely promising development for Canada's economy and energy security. Recently, though, major threats challenging the economic viability ...
According to former Suncor Energy CEO, Rick George, oil sands producers need to do a better job improving the image of this particular type of oil. While the unflattering image that oil sands ...
The great oil age: the petroleum industry in Canada. Detselig Enterprises. ISBN 978-1-55059-072-2. Mir-Babayev, M.F. (2017). "Brief history of the first drilled oil well; and people involved". Oil-industry History. 18 (1): 25– 34. ISSN 1546-9573. Taylor, Graham D. (2019). Imperial standard : Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian oil industry ...