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...In a sign that investment in the oil sands could still pay off, Imperial last week announced it would spend C$2.6bn to develop the 75,000 b/d Aspen project in Alberta....
...Wildfires in Canada’s oil-producing Alberta province have knocked out about 1m b/d or more than a fifth of the country’s production....
...4.49m b/d this year....
...Imperial Oil recently doubled production capacity at its Kearl oil sands project to 220,000 b/d....
...Royal Dutch Shell, for example, withdrew its application to build a 200,000 b/d oil sands mine at Pierre River, Alberta....
...It has delayed by years a new 80,000 b/d in situ project at Carmon Creek, near Peace river, Alberta....
...It now expects output to rise by about 150,000 barrels per day this year to about 3.6m b/d, and by a further 150,000 b/d next year....
...Oil output also soared, with production from the Bakken alone rising from 100,000 barrels a day five years ago to more than 1m b/d in 2012....
...’d put together of privately owned art collections....
...Since 2000 until the middle of this year, oil producers in Alberta, the province where most of the oil sands mines are located, have added 1.4m b/d of new production to the market – equal to the total production...
...Output from the oil sands – much of it in Alberta – is set to more than double by 2021, to about 3.7 million barrels a day, 2m b/d more than in 2011, according to a forecast released in June by Alberta’s...
...Emerging economies have meanwhile added 4.2m b/d in capacity, with another 1.8m b/d coming this year. “It’s really a tale of two markets,” says Toril Bosoni, IEA senior oil analyst....
...A satellite project of Husky Energy’s White Rose field – North Amethyst – came into production last year, with a target output of 37,000 b/d....
...The first phase of that could add 35,000 b/d to Jackpine’s output of 255,000 b/d....
...A big, receptive market is on the doorstep. Canada shipped an average of 1.9m barrels of oil a day to the US last year, compared with 1.2m b/d from Mexico and 1.1m b/d from Saudi Arabia....
...Harptree Court, a Georgian manor house B&B in Somerset’s Mendip Hills, has just added a new yurt and treehouse in its landscaped grounds....
...The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has lowered its 2020 production projections from 3.8m b/d two years ago to a maximum of 2.9m b/d....
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