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Fort Hills Mine

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 Location:
22 km NE from Fort Mackay, Alberta, Canada

  Regional Office:
Tar Island
P.O. Box 4015, Main Mailroom
Fort McMurray
Alberta, Canada
T9H 3E3
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Bitumen
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Gravity separation
Mine Life35 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)


Owners

Source: p. 51
CompanyInterestOwnership
Teck Resources Ltd. 21.3 % Indirect
Total E&P Canada Ltd. 24.6 % Indirect
Suncor Energy Inc. (operator) 54.1 % Indirect
Teck Resources Ltd. holds a 21.3% limited partnership interest in Fort Hills Energy L.P (the Fort Hills Partnership), which owns the Fort Hills mine. The other limited partners are Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) with a 54.1% interest and Total E&P Canada Ltd. (Total) with a 24.6% interest.
Suncor Energy Operating Inc., an affiliate of Suncor, acts as contract operator of Fort Hills pursuant to an operating services contract. The contract operator has exclusive authority to operate Fort Hills, subject to the oversight of a management committee on which each of the shareholders of the general partner are represented.

Deposit Type

  • Sediment-hosted


Summary:


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Fort Hills is an oil sands mining area comprising leases on the east side of the Athabasca River, north of Oil Sands Base operations. Fort Hills operations are substantially similar to those of Suncor’s Oil Sands Base mining and extraction assets; however, Fort Hills uses a paraffinic froth treatment process to produce a marketable bitumen product that is partially decarbonized, resulting in a higher-quality bitumen requiring less diluent and eliminating the need for on-site upgrading
facilities.

Fort Hills is an open-pit truck and shovel mine.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation

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Summary:

The mine will deliver oil sands feed to two ore crushing plants, where oil sand material will be crushed and processed. Ore from the crushing plants will be mixed with warm water and conditioned to create slurry, which will be transported to primary extraction via three hydrotransport lines.

Extraction process
In primary extraction, the conditioned oil sands slurry is fed to two trains of separation cells. The separation cells remove the bitumen from the sand, which yields a froth mixture of bitumen, water and clay.

Froth is then sent for further treatment in secondary extraction where it is mixed with solvent and sent through two stages of counter-current settlers to remove asphaltenes and excess sand and water. The bitumen is then sent to a solvent recovery unit to remove the solvent and prepare the bitumen for shipping. The final product is marketable bitumen.


Production:

CommodityUnits202120202019
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics2021
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Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits202120202019
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Financials:

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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of June 2, 2020:
HME TypeModelQuantity
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Quarterly Report 2022
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