Home About Us Operations Responsibility ESTMA Reports Careers News Emergency Contact Operations Connacher has two SAGD facilities located on its Great Divide oil sands leases. Pod One and Algar have been producing since 2008 and 2010, respectively. The primary focus of the company is to continue to optimize operations. In Q2 2020, Connacher approached the AER and ABSA about plans to streamline our operations at our Pod One and Algar facilities. These facilities are physically separated by only 7 km but have operated as separate entities for years. Wherever safely possible this duplication has been eliminated. The most recent step in the “One Connacher” initiative was achieved in November 2020 through the combination of the Pod One and Algar control rooms. Connacher is engaged in the exploration, development, production, and marketing of bitumen. Connacher owns and operates 78,000 acres of oil sands leases at Great Divide, located southwest of Fort McMurray, AB. Connacher is focused on growth in Alberta’s oil sands. Connacher’s strategy is to build repeatable, expandable and sustainable projects on its lands. Connacher’s two in-situ plants, Pod One and Algar, located on our Great Divide leases are producing. Google Maps: Algar POD One Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Due to a high quality oil sands reservoir with critical cap rock spread over the area, Connacher is able to utilize the proven technology of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) for its projects to date. This allows us to extract bitumen from oil sands formations, which are located approximately 475 meters below the surface of our leases. Connacher is not engaged in oil sands mining. SAGD is demonstrated in the diagram below. The term in-situ refers to the process whereby bitumen is separated from the sands while still underground in the oil sands original location. This stands in contrast to oil sands mining operations, where the separation takes place after the oil sands are moved from their original location. Legal Privacy Emergency Contact Connacher Oil and Gas Limited 2021