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Suncor Energy Oil Sands Overview
Teck Oil Sands Tour September 9, 2015
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Core Business
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Available Resource
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Only 20% of world reserves
available for development by
public companies
55% of reserves available
to public companies
found in the oil sands
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Crude Oil Life Cycle
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Satellite View of Suncor’s Base Mining & Upgrading Operations
5 Pipeline connections to
Edmonton and Hardisty
Tailings Reclamation
facilities
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Suncor Base Operations
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Fort Hills Operations- Paraffinic Froth Treatment Replaces Upgrading
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Mining Prep - Tree Clearing Mine Preparation: Clearing the Forest, Sequestering Muskeg and Draining
the Surface
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Mine Preparation: Building Access Roads and Utilities
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Overburden Mining Mine Preparation: Removal of Overburden
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Mine Face
muskeg
overburden
oilsand
limestone
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Mining – Delivering Ore to Extraction Delivering Ore to the Processing Plant
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Delivering Ore to the Dump Pocket
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Ore Processing Plant – Primary Extraction
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Delivery point
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Secondary extraction
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Primary
extraction
Secondary
extraction
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Oil Sands Processing- Separation
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Photo courtesy of Syncrude
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Oil Sands Processing- Separation
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Primary Extraction – Hot Water Flotation Bitumen froth secondary extraction
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Bitumen is Sent to Storage Tanks - Material Settles Before Being Upgraded
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Secondary
extraction
tanks &
upgrading
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Tailings is Sent to Tailings Ponds
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Tailings Reduction and Remediation
• Tails are the leftovers after the oil is removed
• Sand (coarse tails), clays (fine tails, mature fine tails), trace oils & kerogens
• The sand is received in sands dumps
• Fine tails become clay suspensions
• Water must be removed to reclaim land
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Step 1: Native Seed Collection Step 2: Soil Salvage & Placement
Step 3: Barley Nurse Crop Step 4: Tree & Shrub Planting
Reclamation Preparing for Reclamation
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• Suncor is the first oil sands company to complete surface reclamation of a tailings pond.
• This 220-hectare site was Suncor’s first settling pond for oil sands tailings in 1967.
Wapisiw Lookout: First reclaimed tailings pond