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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
9 Z) R& z3 \6 D& Q9 ^1 _; A' XVANCOUVER (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 $14.1 billion.
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0 W {$ B; m6 m: E7 ^* rThe members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday1 Y, ]" s5 |; _/ ^
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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.‘‘! U/ g. a) }. R; v6 f. y+ k
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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.* R' N+ V/ Y2 P4 ~4 u" f
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Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.
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* v/ N. I8 \5 }: M( }( j5 d' m) kBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.
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5 f' b" G* w( `' I2 ^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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