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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
4 w% ~& n! O1 n' D& ]- O! ^- VVANCOUVER (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 Thursday0 j, D# ~0 |9 a
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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.‘‘
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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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Bitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.# D: d9 L) a4 o4 [- z/ ~
* Y0 O2 m8 v. I5 r8 F2 s! z: bBy 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.% j y0 M3 a- n0 a7 @% i
0 J0 G% |, x/ C |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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