Calgary—Canadian producer Cenovus Energy hopes to receive regulatory approval by mid- 2014 from the Alberta government for two new oil sands facilities in the province with a total capacity of 270,000 b/d, company chief operating officer John Brannan said Thursday. He said initial work is underway at the 180,000 b/d Grand Rapids and the 90,000 b/d Telephone Lake facilities in anticipation of regulatory approval. At Grand Rapids, work continues on a steam-assisted gravity drainage pilot project with two well pairs currently in production, Brannan said on a webcast call to discuss the company’s fourth-quarter 2013 earnings. A dewatering pilot project at Telephone Lake designed to remove an underground layer of non-potable water sitting on top of the oil sands deposit was also completed in the fourth quarter, he said.
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