Project :
Horizon
Client: Canadian Natural Resources Limited
Owner: Canadian Natural Resources Limited
The oil sands of Alberta contain over 300 billion barrels of oil reserves. Canadian Natural Resources Limited is involved in the extraction of these reserves utilizing both open pit mining and in-situ techniques.
The Horizon Oil Sands Project will utilize open pit mining methods. The Project is located 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, where Canadian Natural owns and operates leases covering 115,000 acres through lease arrangements with the Province of Alberta. Drilling on the leases indicates an estimated 16 billion barrels of bitumen in place, with approximately 6 - 8 billion recoverable barrels under existing mining technologies. Production Life Span is expected to exceed 50 years.
Cahill Industrial has been the contractor of choice by Canadian Natural Resources Limited to perform electrical and instrumentation construction for both the Froth Treatment Plant and the Co-generation Plant. This work involves all the electrical and instrumentation (E&I) installation, the mechanical completion, and the commissioning of the E&I scope of work.
- Secondary Upgrading (SUG): Cahill Industrial was asked by CNRL to assist the contractor with Hydrotreating. This involved completing the electrical, instrumentation and heat trace installation.
- Froth Treatment Plant: The Froth Treatment Plant is located within the Bitumen Production Facilities. Canadian Natural's froth technology is proven to be a leader in environmental and economic performance, as it uses less energy in the form of lower water usage than current industry practices.
- Co-generation Plant: The 100 MW co-generation plant is located within the utilities and off sites facilities and will supply power to the oil sands site as an alternate source of energy generation.