Wells
The first oil well in Western Canada is located in which National Park?
What is Waterton Lakes National Park
The percentage of oil sand reserves recovered from surface mining.
What is 3%?
These compounds contain only hydrogen and carbon in their structures
What are hydrocarbons?
The name of Connacher's oilsands project.
What is Great Divide?
Most in situ bitumen and heavy oil production comes from deposits buried at this depth.
What is 350 to 600m?
Parameter used to monitor the efficiency of oil production processes based on steam injection
What is steam-to-oil ratio?
Adding hydrogen or removes carbon in order to achieve a balanced, lighter hydrocarbon that is more valuable and easier to refine
What is upgrading?
The year Connacher first produced oil.
What is 2007?
SAGD
What is steam-assisted gravity drainage?
The first commercial oil sands plant was constructed in this year.
What is 1967?
This process removes contaminants such as sulphur.
What is hydrotreating?
The names of Connacher's two SAGD facilities.
What are Pod One and Algar?
This well type reduces the ratio of steam to oil for Oilsand producers.
What are infill wells?
This Calgary based company became the first commercial oil sands project to use SAGD.
What is Cenovus?
This process separates hydrocarbons by heating until the various components vaporize
What is fractional distillation?
The approved daily production capacity of the project.
What is 44,000 bbl/day?
This process uses steam to heat bitumen in the reservoir.
What is in situ recovery?
The daily production limit mandated by the Alberta Government in 2019.
What is 3.8 million barrels per day?
This University of Alberta patented the first hot water separation technology used for oil sands projects.
Who is Karl Clark?
The benchmark price for WTI where Connacher begins to pay royalties to Burgess.
What is USD $60/bbl?