A Tour of Alberta's Oil Sands Miners - Course Preview

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There are 6 oil sands mining projects in Alberta that collectively produce 1.6 million bbl/day of bitumen:
1 Suncor’s Base Plant, operated by ‪@suncorenergy‬
2 The Syncrude Project, operated by ‪@SyncrudeCanada‬
3 Albian Sands, operated by ‪@CanadianNaturalCNRL‬
4 Horizon, also operated by ‪@CanadianNaturalCNRL‬
5 Kearl, operated by ‪@ImperialOil‬
6 Fort Hills, operated by ‪@suncorenergy‬
Mining accounts for half of all output from the oil sands, and one-third of Canada’s total crude oil production. But how exactly do miners get oil from the oil sands?
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Lease map - the big 6 mines
1:26 Mining pit and oil sands geology
1:42 Five components of an oil sands mine
2:24 Upgrader integration - integrated vs non-integrated mines
3:02 The bitumen production process
4:08 Tailings storage and reclamation
4:55 Differences in technology selection
5:47 Froth Treatment - naphthenic vs paraffinic
6:13 Tailings reclamation technologies
7:43 Bitumen production profile (annual to 2022)
SHORT COURSE - A Practical Guide To Alberta’s Oil Sands Miners
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17 июл 2024

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@RioSul50 7 месяцев назад

I worked as an operator at both Suncor and Syncrude in the 1980's. Great jobs but very cold in the winter and not many dates for single men.

@Brandon-305 2 месяца назад

Did you work as a refinery operator or a Haul Truck operator? Fort Mc Murray is different now. Plenty gorgeous women living there...😄🍻

@Anna-rg7hz Год назад

Great video. Thanks for sharing!

@neilreid9005 3 месяца назад

Very interesting and very clear in telling what happens! Well done and thank you!

@Arctic4D 7 месяцев назад

Great Video, Thank You!

@purplehazel2323 4 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing that informative video. I've lived in Alberta all my life. And I've never really made an effort to find out how they do it.

@foobeats 5 месяцев назад

Came here cause I'm reading ducks by kate beaton. Very interesting video, didn't know that Canada was the second oil producer in the world

@AdrianDeer 29 дней назад

Same here.. i actually am romanticing the idea to work there too. Good money right? :P

@BrendanDunne94 11 месяцев назад

What is the demand for labour like? I'm moving to Canada next year and would love a job being an equipment operator in the oil sands.

@DotADBX 10 месяцев назад

its all over the place -- tons of civil work going on (highways and infrastructure throughout bc and ab -- not sure on the OT though) as for oil sands it rides the economic dragon so its up and down never hurts to apply though. the refineries pretty much all have non-stop active maintenance going on throughout the year (BC/AB/SASK) so its not too hard to get into these places as long as you work for one of the companies that is doing maintenance and projects in these facilities. wouldnt recommend moving to canada atm though tbh due to cost of living and housing shortages might find your self living in your car or looking for a ticket back to where you came from id wait till the next election and see how the economics are looking moving forward from there tbh.

@TomokosEnterprize 4 месяца назад

Rent is sky hi in Ft McMurray

@TomokosEnterprize 4 месяца назад

@@DotADBX Rent there is out of this world IF you can find it.

@00purrington 6 месяцев назад

How hot is the water used to extract the bitumen?

@user-nz7vj8fe9c 4 месяца назад

500 degrees

@user-qs3mh4pp3b 4 месяца назад

Mining or excavation oil sand to produce bitumen is really effective technology because these achieve high coefficient on bitumen recovery. This old technology has improvement during decades, but a) is capital intensive, b) cost intensive, c) energy intensive and emission intensive, d) water use intensive even the water partly is reused, e) tailing ponds need decades reclamation, f) pollution and land disturbance harms habitat and humans. Industry has the highest emission and highest cost, but has advantages when bitumen are upgraded. The mining technology used on industry must phase out many operations, starting from excavation, crushing and other processes. The bitumen must be and can be produced underground without disturbing the environment and without tailing ponds. Keep only upgrading plants which must increase the API of bitumen produced from underground.

@sunroad7228 11 месяцев назад

"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).