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CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES
Grobably the most significant event to occur in the barrels per day. The next step is the Primrose East expansion,
oilsands industry in 2008 is the scheduled start-up which will increase production by 32,000 barrels per day, but
of Canadian Natural’s integrated Horizon project. this drilling will not occur until 2009. Canadian Natural says
Horizon will be the fourth mining operation to open after it is taking advantage of low natural gas prices to steam mature
Suncor, Syncrude, and the Athabasca Oil Sands Project.
wells where steam-to-oil ratios are higher, and productivity is
Horizon will be executed in phases, with the first phase lower. It has also announced a follow-up process to CSS that
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producing 110,000 barrels per day. Phases 2 and 3—which are
approved—will be conducted together, upping production to
between 232,000 and 250,000 barrels per day in 2013.
In addition to its mine and upgrader, Canadian Natural
has in situ assets in the Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Wabasca
regions. Its primary in situ asset is Primrose, where it uses
a combination of cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and steam
will provide an additional 30,000 barrels per day in 2018.
At Wabasca, Canadian Natural has its Pelican in situ proj-
ect, where it uses horizontal wells to produce about 34,000
barrels per day. In 2008, the company plans to convert many
of these producing wells to polymer injection wells, which
will provide production gains in the future.
assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to produce about 88,000
In the Athabasca region, Canadian Natural has applied for
a 30,000-barrel-per-day SAGD project called Kirby. »
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