page_title: Athabasca oil sands
section_title: Oil sand companies
hierarchical_section_title: Athabasca oil sands / Oil sand companies
caption_attribution_description: English: A chart of the planned increases in oil production from mining operations in the Athabasca Oil Sands. Made with the data in the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_oil_sands#Oil_sand_companies added by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RockyMtnGuy. Recreated in Excel 2011 and exported to PNG. Original version created by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TastyCakes
context_page_description: The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada – roughly centred on the boomtown of Fort McMurray. These oil sands, hosted primarily in the McMurray Formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen, silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen in the world and the largest of three major oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits.
  Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres of boreal forest and muskeg and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum. The International Energy Agency lists the economically recoverable reserves, at 2007 prices and modern unconventional oil production technology, to be 178 billion barrels, or about 10% of these deposits. These contribute to Canada's total proven reserves being the third largest in the world, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela's Orinoco Belt.
context_section_description: There are currently three large oil sands mining operations in the area run by Syncrude Canada Limited, Suncor Energy and Albian Sands owned by Shell Canada, Chevron, and Marathon Oil Corp.
  Major producing or planned developments in the Athabasca Oil Sands include the following projects:
  Suncor Energy's Steepbank and Millennium mines currently produce 263,000 barrels per day (41,800 m³/d) and its Firebag in-situ project produces 35,000 bbl/d (5,600 m³/d).
  Syncrude's Mildred Lake and Aurora mines currently can produce 360,000 bbl/d (57,000 m³/d).
  Shell Canada currently operates its Muskeg River Mine producing 155,000 bbl/d (24,600 m³/d) and the Scotford Upgrader at Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.
  Nexen's in-situ Long Lake SAGD project is now producing 70,000 bbl/d (11,000 m³/d).
  Total S.A.'s subsidiary Deer Creek Energy was operating a SAGD project on its Joslyn lease, producing 10,000 bbl/d (1,600 m³/d). It intended on constructing its mine by 2010 to expand its production by 100,000 bbl/d (16,000 m³/d), however this had not occurred by May 2014 when the company shelved the project while it reviewed the economic viability of the project.
  Wojciech Moskwa (2007-04-27). "Statoil to buy North American Oil Sands for 2 bln". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2007-12-09.</ref>
caption: Planned mining operation oil production by various companies. Data from table below.
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