Cold Lake Oil Sands Project
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Summary Information
- Operator: Imperial Oil
- Country: Canada
- Location: northeastern Alberta
- Production start:
- Partners:
- Type: Oil / Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume: 150,000 bpd
Description
- Cold Lake operations is the largest and longest-running thermal in-situ heavy oil operation in the world.
- The leases at Cold Lake cover about 780 square kilometers of oil sands
- The development includes five steam generation and bitumen production plants, Dene, Leming, Maskwa, Mahihkan and Mahkeses
- Cold Lake bitumen is located more than 400 metres below the surface out of the ground
- It is extracted by injecting steam into the oil sands to thin the heavy bitumen and enable it to flow to the surface through wellbores. (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage SAGD)
- The latest investment, the Nabiye expansion, included the development of a new steam generation and bitumen-processing plant, field production pads and associated facilities
- Oil is transported on the Cold Lake Pipeline System to Edmonton & Hardisty
Contractors
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History
- 1999 - Permission granted for Mahkeses project
- 2003 - Mahkeses project completed
- 2012 - Imperial Oil makes FID for Nabiye expansion project
- 2015 - Expansion project completed
Geology
Links
- Imperial marks official start-up of new Mahkeses facility at Cold Lake
- Imperial Oil Sanctions Cold Lake Expansion Project
- ExxonMobil Announces Cold Lake Project Expansion Starts Production on Schedule
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