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Firebag Mine

Location: 65 km NE from Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Regional Office:


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

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Summary

Mine TypeIn-Situ
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Bitumen
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SnapshotFirebag produce bitumen from oil sands deposits and includes supporting infrastructure: a central processing facilities, cogeneration units, and product transportation infrastructure.

Firebag is an essential part of Suncor's regionally integrated oil sands portfolio, providing bitumen product to upgrading facilities at Base Plant, where bitumen is either upgraded into synthetic crude oil (SCO) or blended with diluent for refinery feedstock or direct sale to market.

Firebag in situ asset continues to achieve production growth through targeted improvements. A series of low to no cost debottlenecking actions have successfully increased the asset’s capacity, resulting in record annual production in 2024.

Economic investment expenditures for 2025 are primarily focused on ongoing design and construction of well pads to develop additional reserves that are expected to maintain existing production levels at Firebag in future years.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Suncor Energy Inc. 100 % Indirect
Suncor Energy owns 100% of Firebag mine.
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Deposit type

  • Sediment-hosted

Summary:

Oil sands are deposits of sand, sandstone or other sedimentary rocks that contain crude bitumen.

Reserves

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Mining Methods

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Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Commodity Production

Annual production estimates are based on the daily production volumes of 233.8 mbbls/d (2024), 217.4 mbbls/d (2023), 198.9 mbbls/d (2022), 206.4 mbbls/d (2021), 182.4 mbbls/d (2020), 187 mbbls/d (2019) and 204 mbbls/d (2018).
CommodityUnits2024202320222021202020192018
Bitumen k barrels  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe68,25574,460

Operational metrics

Metrics202420232022202120202019
Daily production capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe203 k barrels of bitumen

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

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Workforce

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