Kearl Oil Sands Project
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| Country | Canada |
| Region | Alberta |
| Location | Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin |
| Offshore/onshore | Onshore, unconventional |
| Coordinates | 57°17′43″N 111°14′47″W / 57.29524°N 111.24644°WCoordinates: 57°17′43″N 111°14′47″W / 57.29524°N 111.24644°W |
| Partners |
ExxonMobil Imperial Oil |
The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. The project is being developed in three phases with the first phase completed mid-2013.
The development is an open-pit mining operation, which will be developed in three stages. At the first stage it will produce approximately 110,000-barrel-per-day (17,000 m3/d), with later expansions to more than 300,000 barrels per day (48,000 m3/d). It uses a froth treatment technology producing blended bitumen which will be transported to the Edmonton area by Enbridge's pipeline system.Diluent would be provided from Edmonton through the Inter Pipeline owned 454 kilometres (282 mi) long 12 inches (300 mm) diameter pipeline supplying the Athabasca Oil Sands Project. The Kearl oil sands facilities would be connected with this pipeline by a 50 kilometres (31 mi) long new branch.
At the first stage the development would involve capital spending of about C$8 billion, with the final estimate being highly dependent on the final upgrading option selected. An engineering, procurement, and construction management contract for the first phase was awarded to AMEC while Fluor Corp. is responsible for the development of infrastructure and facilities.
When ExxonMobil proposed the Kearl project in 1997, estimated recoverable bitumen resources were 1.2 to 1.4 billion barrels (220×106 m3). Later revisions place the actual established reserves at over 5.5 billion barrels (870×106 m3) (Energy Resources Conservation Board 2010).
The development is located on the following oil-sands leases:
Imperial Oil Resources owns 70% of the project and ExxonMobil Canada Ltd. owns 30%.
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