Based north of Fort McMurray, and with a large research and development facility in Edmonton, Syncrude is a joint venture operated by Suncor that includes the Mildred Lake and Aurora oil sands facilities.

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is one of the world's largest producers of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada. It is located just outside Fort McMurray in the Athabasca Oil Sands, and has a nameplate capacity of 350,000 barrels per day (56,000 m 3 /d) of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption. [1]

Syncrude Mildred Lake Extension (MLX) project will provide a replacement supply of bitumen for upgrading when the current North Mine approaches the end of its oil sands deposit. It is designed to allow Syncrude to sustain its current production capacity.

Syncrude is a joint venture established to recover shallow deposits of oil sands using open-pit mining methods to extract bitumen and upgrade it to produce a high-quality, light (32 degree API), sweet, synthetic crude oil.

Synthetic crude oil, also known as Syncrude, is a type of crude oil that is produced from a mixture of hydrocarbons through a process called upgrading. This process typically involves the conversion of heavy or extra-heavy crude oil, oil sands, bitumen, kerogen or shale oil and other substances such as coal, or derived from gas to liquid ...

The Syncrude Tailings Dam, impounding the Mildred Lake Settling Basin (MLSB), is an embankment dam that is, by volume of construction material, the largest earth structure in the world in 2001. [1] It is located 40 km (25 mi) north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, at the northern end of the Mildred Lake lease area owned by Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Oct 13, 2006 · Syncrude operates the largest oil sands crude oil production facility in the world and produces over 13 percent of Canada’s total oil requirements. To do this, Syncrude mines oil sand from a surface mine, extracts the raw oil, or bitumen, from the sand using steam and hot water, and upgrades it into crude oil by fluid coking, hydroprocessing ...

Syncrude: Transforming Sand into Oil. Syncrude, a term ubiquitous in the oil and gas industry, refers to a synthetic crude oil produced from upgrading mined hydrocarbons, primarily bitumen, a thick, viscous form of petroleum found in oil sands. This process involves a complex series of steps designed to transform the heavy, high-viscosity ...

Syncrude is one of the largest producers of crude oil from Canada’s oil sands. The company operates a large oil sand mine, utilities plant, bitumen extraction plant and upgrading facility that processes bitumen and produces value-added light, sweet crude oil called Syncrude Crude Oil (SCO) for domestic consumption and export. The

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is the world’s largest producer of high quality light, sweet synthetic crude oil and is Canada’s largest industrial sector employer of native people.