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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
4 h9 H6 r8 B3 l5 ?8 J6 HVANCOUVER (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 $14.1 billion.% s# t/ m7 h+ U( X
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The members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday
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& ^5 [3 C( A2 X$ qthey 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.‘‘
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; _ K. q# F' j$ `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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Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.: y& `/ i% }1 j
i- P6 v- M4 B- t* J" [. bBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.' b* a0 \9 g) \7 \
+ `$ c4 x) h: n) Q2 cPetro-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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