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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands) _- ~5 M- D, ~
VANCOUVER (CP) _ Petro-Canada (TSX:PCS), Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) and UTS Energy Corp. (TSX:UTS) have conceptualized the design for the Fort Hills oilsands project, with the first phase budgeted at $14.1 billion.
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7 ~4 s. [. F( C7 [' z9 }# b: ZThe members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday
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, y: n; M% M, O& u% _$ Sthey are committed to proceed with front-end engineering and design. This will take about a year, “producing a definitive cost estimate and the basis upon which the final go-ahead decision on the project will be made.‘‘
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0 B8 M8 ?8 R( ]; i4 V! KThe project _ an oilsands mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and upgrader northeast of Edmonton _ is expected to produce 140,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil in its first phase.
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Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.% Z- l6 y, g; l+ M* d1 R7 q8 ~) `
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By 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.1 s' c6 |' j E
% j. z/ U* Y& s6 S; F3 BPetro-Canada has a 55 per cent interest in the Fort Hills partnership, with 30 per cent held by UTS Energy and 15 per cent by Teck Cominco. |
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