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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
6 }% `$ h4 }; N3 {6 N' a1 xVANCOUVER (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 $14.1 billion.
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The members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday: L' b! G; I5 G/ g0 ~% v" F+ B3 q
0 b8 _# y4 i% Mthey are committed to proceed with front-end engineering and design. This will take about a year, “producing a definitive cost estimate and the basis upon which the final go-ahead decision on the project will be made.‘‘5 \; E8 I1 ] x8 Z+ u
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The project _ an oilsands mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and upgrader northeast of Edmonton _ is expected to produce 140,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil in its first phase./ j+ {* ?3 s3 f! z( c" E
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Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.0 E$ U+ Q& t) c7 }' ]* Q# i
/ o: E* ^+ x& j+ z( QBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.
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Petro-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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