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Petro Canada, Teck, UTS proceed on design of $14B Fort Hills oilsands project (Fort-Hills-Oilsands)
, M3 \, b$ ?9 @' B& `5 qVANCOUVER (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 $14.1 billion.( z3 X: }) \* a) {4 t' I& b+ ^9 q
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The members of the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership said Thursday
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' k3 C7 A J( N! o2 }they are committed to proceed with front-end engineering and design. This will take about a year, “producing a definitive cost estimate and the basis upon which the final go-ahead decision on the project will be made.‘‘
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The project _ an oilsands mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and upgrader northeast of Edmonton _ is expected to produce 140,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil in its first phase.! A: j( u8 t$ P5 U) l
- e1 e4 q* s2 LBitumen production is targeted for late 2011, with oil output from the upgrader expected to start around mid-2012.* }" x3 J6 ~; C" Z
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By 2014, Fort Hills is projected to produce up to 280,000 barrels per day.2 _2 p) x4 m" y% F' d
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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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