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New ways to exploit oil sands
The coal industry is the traditional user of longwall mining, a highly mechanized system of underground mining. However, geological similarities between the intermediate depth oil sands and coal fields have led Dunbar to consider longwall mining in the oil sands. He writes: "A layer of oil sands would be selected and blocked out into a … panel.
Slurry Pumping in the Oil Sands Industry
When it comes to pumping slurry, there can be very few applications that are more challenging than the hydro-transport of heavy duty slurries in oil sands production. Earlier this year, GIW Industries Inc. commissioned its largest ever heavy duty centrifugal slurry pump for operation in Canada's oil sands; this week's Blog takes a look at this remarkable piece of …
Largest oil sands producers create alliance to reach net zero
Canada's largest oil sands producers, together responsible for 90% of bitumen production, have teamed up to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
New shovels for Suncor and Syncrude
This order for a P&H 4100BOSS follows closely on the heels of the startup of the initial BOSS model at Syncrude Canada's nearby oil sands mine. The "B" in the "BOSS" name stems from the powerful P&H 4100XPB shovel, many of whose advanced features it incorporates, and the "OSS" stands for "oil sands shovel".
Bold move into oil sands
The mining rate, too, is made up of big numbers. The first phase, getting a 170,000-bbl/day operation going, will mean moving 800,000 to 900,000 tonnes of material each day in the mine. If capacity is expanded to 270,000 bbl/day, the mining rate will be more than 1.2 million tonnes/day. "[Mining] is a material-handling problem," said Duthie.
Improvements to Production Planning in Oil Sands …
Improvements to Production Planning in Oil Sands Mining Through Analysis and Simulation of Truck Cycle Times1 Eduardo Goris Cervantes, Shiv Upadhyay and Hooman Askari-Nasab Mining Optimization Laboratory (MOL) ... as they solely rely on equipment manufacturers' performance data that are usually not representative of the complex nature of ...
OIL SANDS: Canadian Natural completes acquisition of Athabasca Oil
ALBERTA – Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. of Calgary has closed the $12-billion deal to boost its oil sands interests by purchasing assets of Marathon Oil and Shell Canada.CNRL now holds 70% of the Athabasca oil sands project north of Fort McMurray, 70% of the Scotford upgrader near Edmonton, and the Quest carbon capture and storage project.
OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT
ALBERTA - The Fort Hills Energy LP has selected the main parameters for its oil sands development 90 km north of Fort McMurray. The partnership (PETRO-CANADA 55%, TECK COMINCO 30% and UTS ENERGY 15%) will build an integrated oil sands mining project on leases in the Athabasca Basin, plus an upgrader in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton.
Behind the scenes at the oil sands
Suppliers & Equipment. Machinery and Equipment; Machinery and Equipment Maintenance ... of the newer dedicated oil sands truck bodies are designed from the floor up to meet the challenges specific to these mining operations. ... a cost-saving design has been engineered for an oil sands specific truck body that's expected to incease the life ...
The Oil Sands Explained … in 10 minutes | Oil Sands Magazine
Alberta's oil sands. It's the world's third largest oil reserves, 161 billion recoverable barrels in the ground. They're are huge part of Canada's economy, contributing trillions to Canada's GDP over the past 50 years, generating billions annually in government taxes, revenues and royalties, supporting small and medium-sized businesses from coast to coast and …
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A Tour of Alberta's Oil Sands Miners
All oil sands mining facilities have tailings reprocessing plants or drying areas, which helps facilitate this reclamation process. TECHNOLOGY SELECTION. While the general bitumen extraction process is the same across all operators, there are some differences in the types of equipment used. For example, ore storage facilities will look ...
PUMPS: All oilsands using GIW units for …
The customer was familiar with the success of a TBC-84 pump at another oil sands mine and was interested in replicating its impressive 6,000 hours of wear life. However, this particular application and its hydrotransport …
Evolution of Mining Equipment in the Oil Sands
Suppliers work closely with oil sands operators to optimize the design of their vehicles, constantly improving fuel efficiency and reducing downtime. A payload of 400 tonnes …
OIL SANDS EXPANSION: Syncrude's plans include Aurora …
ALBERTA - Calgary's Canadian Oil Sands Trust, 37% owner of the Syncrude project near Fort McMurray, has announced plans to expand synthetic crude oil production to 425,000 bbl/day by the end of this decade. No cost estimates have yet been made for the expansion. First, the existing Mildred Lake upgrading facility will be debottlenecked.
Newest oil sands mine on the Horizon
The latest oil sands development to be approved is the Horizon mine and on-site upgrader project 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Horizon is owned by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., a Calgary-based senior oil …
Insitu: Oil Sands Mining Goes Underground
The resource potential for in situ oil sands extraction is huge. Surface mining is only feasible for the shallow oil sands deposits found north of Fort McMurray, which means that 80 percent of the ...
Surface Mining Equipment Index – The Parker Bay Company
These will likely be replaced by Russian/CIS equipment suppliers and, perhaps, by imports increased from China. ... Shipments to oil sands mining (a substantially smaller and geographically more concentrated sector) have been extremely volatile but in general decline (-50% YoY) reflecting pandemic induced declines in oil demand and attendant ...
Oil Sands Tailings: What Needs to be Done
Oil sands operators have submitted their plans to comply with Directive 074, but each oil sands operator has his or her own plan. Production of CT with CaSO4 or CO2 additives to prevent ...
SMS Equipment to deliver 's largest hydraulic mining …
Germany Mining Division (KGM) and SMS Equipment will deliver what will be 's largest hydraulic mining excavator yet to a customer in Canada's oil sands. The PC9000 will be optimized for use with 830E through 980E mining trucks, with an eye for increased productivity, performance, and efficiency in mining operations.
Henan Wanda Industrial Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd …
Wanda specializes in the integration of oil, flour, chemical, edible oil, agrochemical and other preparation processing equipment services
Here's what Canadians think of the oil sands
The oil sands industry is possibly the most controversial subject in Canada today. Companies trying to develop, transport and sell Alberta's crude have faced fierce opposition from environmental ...
Oil Sands Haul Trucks
Reduce your costs and run more materials in the same amount of time with the efficient oil sands haul trucks offered by Wajax. You can find open pit long haul dump trucks that are well suited …
Mining the Oil Sands — Outlook to 2030 and beyond
Alberta's oil sands miners produced a record 1.6 million bbl/day of bitumen in 2022, double the average of 2009. Growth in output has averaged 10% a year over the past two decades, although the past few years have been more volatile due to lack of pipeline space, curtailment orders and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wildfires erupt in Canada crude patch in threat to …
One 3-hectare (7-acre) fire is within about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of MEG Energy Corp.'s Christina Lake site, which produced almost 100,000 barrels a day in May, according to Alberta Energy ...
Henan Kellen Machinery Equipment Co.,Ltd
Our sand sifter motors are high quality copper wire motors. The sand screening machine is suitable for sand mining, construction plants, coal mines, and grain screening. The leveling …
SMS Equipment, sells first large PC9000 …
Earlier this month Germany Mining Division (KGM) and SMS Equipment revealed the latest development in 's fleet of hydraulic mining excavators for surface mining, the PC9000.KGM confirms the new …
CANADA'S Oil Sands
growth in supply from the oil sands. CANADIAN OIL PRODUCTION BARRELS PER DAY 1985 2020 Crude Oil 1.5 million 4.04 million (incl. oil sands) Oil Sands 0.2 million 2.84 million In 2020 about 70% of Canada's crude oil production was from the oil sands. Source: CAPP, 2021 Source: Based on IEA data from the IEA 2021
Delivering Solutions for Mining Productivity
In one instance, selecting the right lubricant for Kearl Oil Sands' saved more than US $1.6 million by safely extending the oil drain intervals of its hydraulic equipment by six times the OEM-recommended limit.* Disclaimer: * This Proof of Performance is based on the experience of a single customer. Actual results can vary depending upon the ...
Equipment
KMC owns and operates one of the largest fleets of ultra-class haul trucks in Canada. These pieces of equipment range in size from a small 30-ton articulated truck to our large 930E (320 ton) fleet. KMC primarily utilizes our haul fleet in …
Petro-Can Opens MacKay River Oil Sands Project
It's official: Petro-Canada's $290-million MacKay River steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil sands facility is on stream. The opening celebrations were attended by Alberta energy minister Murray Smith, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo's mayor Doug Faulkner, Fort McKay First Nations chief Jim Boucher, and Petro-Can senior vice-president of …