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Summary
The leading business intelligence provider, has released its latest research Canadian Oil Sands Industry to 2015 Oil Price Recovery Providing Momentum. The study, which is an offering from the companys Energy Research Group, provides in-depth analysis of the Canadian Oil Sands Industry with bitumen production forecasts, key trends, some of the drivers and challenges for the oil sands industry participants until 2015. The study provides detailed analysis and forecasts of major economic and industry trends, both historic and forecast, affecting the Canadian oil sands industry. The report includes historic and future forecasts of bitumen production from various projects and distribution of oil sand projects based on location. The report discusses about major mergers and acquisitions in Canadian oil sands. The report also encompasses market share analysis in terms of bitumen produced. It also discusses about major NOC investments in Canadian oil sands. The report details about capital and operating expenditure for projects based process techniques used in bitumen extraction. The report discusses in detail about some of the major factors influencing the operating expenditure of the Canadian oil sands.
The research discusses current and planned oil sand projects, key trends and issues globally along with market share analysis of major participating companies. The report is built using the data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in house analysis by team of industry experts.
According to the report the production from oil sands is expected to reach 1.82 million barrels per day by 2015 due to rising crude oil prices stimulated by demand from developing nations in Asia Pacific. The production from conventional oil reserves in Canada is already in the declining phase and will further decline by 2015. The newly planned and upcoming oil sand exploration activities are likely to compensate for the decline in conventional oil reserves and the total oil production from the region will increase by 2015. Other than the newly planned and upcoming oil sand projects, the anticipated investments will further increase the bitumen production from the region. The economy recovery post 2010 will further increase bitumen production levels.
The three major bitumen production sites in Canada are Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River. Athabasca has the largest area for bitumen production from oil sands. Out of the twenty six projects (in the form of current project expansions and new projects) started between 2004 and 2009, twelve projects are in Athabasca, five in Cold Lake, two in Peace River and one in the North West. Capacity additions through new projects and current project expansions are likely to be the highest in Athabasca region followed by Cold Lake. A small portion of capacity additions will happen in Peace River and North West.
The bitumen from oil sands is extracted through mining and in-situ techniques and utilization of these technologies varies depending on the location and geology of the reservoir. The bitumen in Canadian oil sands is extracted mainly by mining and the use of other techniques has only increased after 2003. Among the in-situ techniques, SAGD is widely adopted due to the simplicity of the process and approximately 54 projects have employed it. Primary production follows SAGD in terms of most extensively used technique. Several novel techniques such as Solvent processing, Enhanced Recovery Electro-Thermal Dynamic Stripping Process (ET DSP TM), Toe to Heal Air Injection (THAI), N-SOLV and Vapor Exchange Process (VAPEX) are in proposed or demonstration stages.
The Canadian oil sands industry is capital intensive and the capital and operating expenditure depend on the reservoir geology, the bitumen fluid properties and on the type of technique used for extraction. The capital expenditure of CSS, SAGD, Standalone Mining and Integrated Mining was approximately the same from 200406.
The decline in oil production from the existing conventional oil reserves is prompting oil and gas majors to invest in new onshore and offshore reserves to maintain the production levels. Oil and Gas majors such as; ConocoPhillips, Chevron, EnCana, PetroChina, Shell and Statoil have invested in oil sands through various joint ventures and consortiums. The bitumen produced by Suncor Energy, Inc., Imperial Oil Limited, Shell Canada, Canadian Oil Sands Limited, ConocoPhillips, EnCana Corporation, Devon Energy, Chevron, Marathon and Nexen Inc accounted for 70.46% of the regions H1 2009 total.
Scope
The report provides detailed information and analysis on Canadian oil sands projects, production capacities of various projects, major in-situ recovery technologies, operational and capital expenditure and planned projects. Its scope includes:
- Current and Planned Canadian oil sand projects
- Production Capacities of various existing projects
- Projects by major in-situ recovery technologies
- Information on operation and capital expenditure based on process technique used and resource consumed
- Annual information covering historic data from 2000 to 2008 and forecasts to 2015
- Detailed project analysis of Athabasca, Cold Lake, North West, and Peace River regions
- Drivers and challenges for the Canadian oil sands industry
- Major mergers and acquisitions and asset transactions in the oil sands industry
- Project level information for all oil sand projects focusing on key statistics such as phase status, start year, regulatory status, technology, bitumen capacity (bbl/day), bitumen upgrader capacity (bbl/day), equity partners and equity stakes, operators, capital and operational expenditure, bitumen production (barrels/day), operational and capital expenditure per barrel.
- Project and production information of Athabasca Oil Sands Corp, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Chevron Canada, Shell Canada, Connacher Oil and Gas Limited, Devon Canada Corporation, Deven Energy, Encana Corporation, ConoccoPhillips, Husky Energy, Imperial Oil Limited, Korean National Oil Corporation, Nexen Inc., Petro-Canada, StatoilHydro ASA, Suncor Energy, Inc., Sunshine Oilsands Ltd, and others
- Market share analysis and competitive scenario of the top five oil sand companies (bitumen production equity weighted)
- Environmental impacts such as water footprint, natural gas usage, affects on habitat, carbon emissions due to increase in Canadian oil sands production
