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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)( L3 C4 Q0 g4 f0 {) z1 [
VANCOUVER (CP) _ Petro-Canada (TSX:PCS), Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) and UTS Energy Corp. (TSX:UTS) have conceptualized the design for the Fort Hills oilsands project, with the first phase budgeted at $14.1 billion.2 {/ g7 f& m" ~
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The members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday4 \$ R. Y( p* v/ w
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they are committed to proceed with front-end engineering and design. This will take about a year, “producing a definitive cost estimate and the basis upon which the final go-ahead decision on the project will be made.‘‘6 B" {; s! h5 `# I
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The project _ an oilsands mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and upgrader northeast of Edmonton _ is expected to produce 140,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil in its first phase.
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# [8 g- {9 q2 ^- kBitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.) O/ \* R! f) e
. ?) [1 r9 i) P, f$ t! j4 rBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.3 W" i5 \7 D6 [8 ?$ s
, Z+ b3 v) V: Z b8 pPetro-Canada has a 55 per cent interest in the Fort Hills partnership, with 30 per cent held by UTS Energy and 15 per cent by Teck Cominco. |
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