Horizon Oil Sands Upgrader

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Canadian Natural Resources
• Website: http://www.cnrl.com/
• Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
• Capacity: 5.5 million tons/annum & 110,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A bitumen upgrading complex that converts natural bitumen into sweet synthetic crude oil

Refining Units

• Delayed Coker,
• Diluent recovery unit (DRU)
• Hydrotreater *3
• Hydrogen Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• -

Products Produced

• low-sulphur, 34° API, sweet synthetic crude oil (SCO)

Ongoing Projects

• Horizon Oil Sands Upgrader Expansion Project

Other Information

• SNC Lavalin, Technip

History

• 2005 - Board of Directors sanctioned the Horizon Oil Sands Project
• 2009 - First production
• 2011 - Fire in the Coker led to a several month shutdown

Relevant Links

• Horizon Oil Sands, CNR
• Canadian Natural Resources Limited Announces the Resumption of Shipment of Synthetic Crude Oil From Horizon
• Technip awarded two major contracts for the horizon oil sands project in Canada
• SNC-LAVALIN AWARDED CONTRACT ON HORIZON OIL SANDS UPGRADER PROJECT IN ALBERTA
• Oil Sands Process

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