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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)% Z6 u/ u t4 E( t7 Y& w, S5 L
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 $14.1 billion.
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/ j6 c0 I) z6 j8 jThe members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday9 W! m8 q5 u$ c
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they 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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The 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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: X# ^' @! c. G2 |' F* U, f( _& cBitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.8 a: ^, H7 I( |4 R T
2 T- z7 g/ a5 J) H3 t* cBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.
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Petro-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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