A Tour of Alberta's Oil Sands Miners - Course Preview
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- There are 6 oil sands mining projects in Alberta that collectively produce 1.6 million bbl/day of bitumen:
1 Suncor’s Base Plant, operated by @suncorenergy
2 The Syncrude Project, operated by @SyncrudeCanada
3 Albian Sands, operated by @CanadianNaturalCNRL
4 Horizon, also operated by @CanadianNaturalCNRL
5 Kearl, operated by @ImperialOil
6 Fort Hills, operated by @suncorenergy
Mining accounts for half of all output from the oil sands, and one-third of Canada’s total crude oil production. But how exactly do miners get oil from the oil sands?
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Lease map - the big 6 mines
1:26 Mining pit and oil sands geology
1:42 Five components of an oil sands mine
2:24 Upgrader integration - integrated vs non-integrated mines
3:02 The bitumen production process
4:08 Tailings storage and reclamation
4:55 Differences in technology selection
5:47 Froth Treatment - naphthenic vs paraffinic
6:13 Tailings reclamation technologies
7:43 Bitumen production profile (annual to 2022)
SHORT COURSE - A Practical Guide To Alberta’s Oil Sands Miners
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I worked as an operator at both Suncor and Syncrude in the 1980's. Great jobs but very cold in the winter and not many dates for single men.
Did you work as a refinery operator or a Haul Truck operator? Fort Mc Murray is different now. Plenty gorgeous women living there...😄🍻
Very interesting and very clear in telling what happens! Well done and thank you!
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing that informative video. I've lived in Alberta all my life. And I've never really made an effort to find out how they do it.
Great Video, Thank You!
Came here cause I'm reading ducks by kate beaton. Very interesting video, didn't know that Canada was the second oil producer in the world
Same here.. i actually am romanticing the idea to work there too. Good money right? :P
What is the demand for labour like? I'm moving to Canada next year and would love a job being an equipment operator in the oil sands.
its all over the place -- tons of civil work going on (highways and infrastructure throughout bc and ab -- not sure on the OT though) as for oil sands it rides the economic dragon so its up and down never hurts to apply though.
the refineries pretty much all have non-stop active maintenance going on throughout the year (BC/AB/SASK) so its not too hard to get into these places as long as you work for one of the companies that is doing maintenance and projects in these facilities.
wouldnt recommend moving to canada atm though tbh due to cost of living and housing shortages might find your self living in your car or looking for a ticket back to where you came from id wait till the next election and see how the economics are looking moving forward from there tbh.
Rent is sky hi in Ft McMurray
@@DotADBX Rent there is out of this world IF you can find it.
Mining or excavation oil sand to produce bitumen is really effective technology because these achieve high coefficient on bitumen recovery. This old technology has improvement during decades, but a) is capital intensive, b) cost intensive, c) energy intensive and emission intensive, d) water use intensive even the water partly is reused, e) tailing ponds need decades reclamation, f) pollution and land disturbance harms habitat and humans.
Industry has the highest emission and highest cost, but has advantages when bitumen are upgraded.
The mining technology used on industry must phase out many operations, starting from excavation, crushing and other processes. The bitumen must be and can be produced underground without disturbing the environment and without tailing ponds. Keep only upgrading plants which must increase the API of bitumen produced from underground.
"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system.
No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).
How hot is the water used to extract the bitumen?
500 degrees
Open Oil Pipelines from Canada to USA. You Tube.
Has a pro mining tilt ignoring the how bad oil sand production really is.
Crawl back in your cave
@@wkhunter68 and yet if it wasn’t for oil nobody would survive
Still waiting for arc reactor technology or cold fusion?
😅
Did you even watch the video? They take oil out of the sand then put back clean sand. Basically a large scale environmental cleanup.
Very very dirty for the enviroment to extract
You ever wondered where your 💩goes after you wipe your bum
The oil is already IN the sand, has been for centuries. How dirty is that.
Did you even watch the video? They take oil out of the sand then put back clean sand. Basically a large scale environmental cleanup.