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Aerial photograph of the Horizon Oil Sands in 2013. Horizon Oil Sands is an oil sands mining and upgrading project in Bitumount, Alberta, Canada. The project includes a surface oil sands mining and bitumen extraction plant, complemented by on-site bitumen upgrading with associated infrastructure. [1] Initial examination of the Horizon project ...
Primary heavy crude oil – 8% of production; Pelican Lake heavy crude oil – 6% of production; The company's largest operation is the Horizon Oil Sands project which is 75 kilometres (47 mi) north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. It includes a surface oil sands mining and bitumen extraction plant and bitumen upgrading with associated infrastructure.
Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 MMbbl ...
Fort MacKay/Horizon Airport (IATA: HZP, ICAO: CYNR) is located 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) north-northwest of Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada. Fort Mackay/Horizon Airport is an airfield built to service the Horizon Oil Sands project of Canadian Natural Resources. It is built and certified for aircraft up to and including B737.
A large number of oil sands mines are currently in operation and more are in the stages of approval or development. The Syncrude Canada mine was the second to open in 1978, Shell Canada opened its Muskeg River mine (Albian Sands) in 2003 and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNRL) opened its Horizon Oil Sands project in 2009.
Horizon Oil Sands Project (Phase I) 12/2008 Canadian Natural Resources: LAND Bitumen Tar sands: 110 CA$7.7 B Mining&Upgrading, first phase at 135 kbpd [56] [61] [62] Canada Christina Lake Ph 1B 9/2008 EnCana LAND Bitumen Tar Sands: 10 In-Situ, Approved [56] [63] Canada Christina Lake Ph 2 8/2008 MEG Energy (CNOOC interest) LAND Bitumen Tar ...
[26] The average daily oil collection rates is 2,000 barrels (84,000 US gallons; 320,000 litres) a day. [65] [66] May 22 – Obama signs an executive order establishing the bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling [67] [68] May 23 – BP rebuffs EPA order to change its dispersants.
The oil slick as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill in history.