Cenovus Power’s oil sands manufacturing website at Christina Lake. Picture: Cenovus Power
(Bloomberg) – Alberta’s oil manufacturing rose to a report 4.32 million barrels a day (bpd) in July as oil sands corporations boosted output from nicely websites to fill the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline.
Output from the oil sands additionally climbed to a report of three.67 million bpd, based on Alberta Power Regulator knowledge launched Tuesday, pushed by a bounce in manufacturing from wells that use steam to loosen and extract bitumen from underground. July’s output was the best in knowledge relationship again to 2010.
Oil sands producers together with Cenovus Power Inc. and Canadian Pure Assets Ltd. are growing output after final yr’s enlargement of the Trans Mountain pipeline added virtually 600,000 bpd of export capability and supported native crude costs.
Alberta’s oil sands are the highest supply of crude from Canada, the world’s fourth-largest producer. Complete oil manufacturing in Alberta was up 154,000 bpd within the first seven months of the yr versus a yr earlier, the info present.
