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Canada's Oil Sands: highlights from Q1 2016 results
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Report summary
The oil sands industry continued an uphill battle in Q1 2016 as benchmark WTI oil prices continued their decline to prices not seen since the early millennium. Even though oil sands operators have reduced operating costs, bitumen realisations declined to the lowest prices yet in the current downturn. The depreciating Canadian dollar throughout the quarter helped producers mitigate some of the damage. An industry that has already been hit hard by prices will be further impacted by the massive wildfires in Fort McMurray. At the time of writing more than one million boe/d of production has been shut down. Projects impacted include the Suncor mine and upgrader, Firebag, MacKay River, Athabasca Oil Sands Project, Syncrude, Sunrise, Surmont, Hangingstone, and Long Lake. The fire is aggressive and has the potential to threaten further shut down of projects in the region.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Benchmark oil prices and bitumen realisations
- In situ operating netbacks
- Mining production
- Mining production
- In situ production
- Operating costs
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Significant events in the oil sands
- Wildfires force project shut downs
- Suncor increases exposure to Syncrude mining project
- Husky divests Lloydminster midstream assets for Cdn$1.7 billion
- Fatal explosion at Nexen's Long Lake facility
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Benchmark prices vs. bitumen realisationsBitumen discount relative to benchmark pricesCanada's Oil Sands: highlights from Q1 2016 results: Image 3
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Cenovus Foster Creek Q1 2016 netbackCanada's Oil Sands: highlights from Q1 2016 results: Image 5In situ projects producing >30,000 b/dIn situ projects producing <30,000 b/dQuarterly operating costs for reporting projectsCanada's Oil Sands: highlights from Q1 2016 results: Image 9
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