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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
4 u' j Q1 K/ W, T" S0 a0 }; \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.# E9 Q5 T0 P2 z
% x( { c) S; y) V3 zThe members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday
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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.0 ?6 k1 d& e! C" i x' e6 p
9 D, W2 H- U- R8 o: y. ^Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.
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By 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.2 L6 F% K5 X+ d" G1 Y2 a: H
/ b6 Q( J! L6 ?4 T: [; _, DPetro-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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