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The Scotford Upgrader is a part of a larger site known as Shell Scotford located 40 km northeast of Edmonton, Alberta. Shell Scotford comprises three operating units: the Upgrader, a Refinery, and a Chemical plant. The Scotford Cogeneration Plant is also located on the site. Currently, work is being done on the first Upgrader expansion.
The plant is located in Strathcona County, just northeast of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada at the Scotford Upgrader site. The plant is primarily used to supply steam and electricity to the Athabasca Oilsands Upgrader (a joint venture between Shell Canada, Chevron Canada Resources Limited and Western Oilsands LP). The Upgrader utilizes two ...
Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Project at Scotford has the capacity to capture approximately one-third of the CO 2 emissions from the Scotford Upgrader. [5] The cumulative stored volume is expected to be greater than 27 million tonnes of CO 2 over the anticipated 25 year life of the Scotford Upgrader.
Motiva Enterprises owns and operates the Port Arthur Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. On 25 May 2012, Motiva officially completed its expansion of the refinery to a capacity of 600,000 bbl/d (95,000 m 3 /d) making it the largest refinery in North America and the fifth largest in the world.
The Shell Canada Scotford Refinery near Edmonton has a capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (16,000 m 3 /d). It is located adjacent to the Shell Scotford Upgrader, which provides it with feedstock. The Husky Lloydminster Refinery at Lloydminster, in eastern Alberta has a capacity of 29,000 barrels per day (4,600 m 3 /d). It is located across the ...
Aera is a participant in Newport Banning Ranch, LLC, which has submitted a proposal to build 1,375 homes, parks, a coastal inn, and a small commercial center on about 153 acres (0.62 km 2) of the site, while preserving and restoring more than 55 percent of the property for open space and wildlife habitat uses.
Heavy oil differentials explain the large cost discrepancies between the Husky Upgrader ($1.6 billion for 46,000 barrels per day (7,300 m 3 /d) capacity) and the Co-op upgrader ($600 million for 50,000 barrels per day (7,900 m 3 /d).) The Husky facility was designed to process heavier grades of oil than the Co-op upgrader, and its output was ...
At the turn of the 21st century, oil sands development in Canada started to take off, with an expansion at the Suncor mine, a new mine and expansion at Syncrude, and a new mine by Royal Dutch Shell associated with their new Scotford Upgrader near Edmonton. Three new large steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects were added – Foster ...