Rare brand-new oil sands project starts operating in Alberta

Rare brand-new oil sands project starts operating in Alberta

For the first time in nearly eight years, a brand-new oil sands project is operating in Alberta. It’s a rare development even as oil sands production continues to set new records. That’s because Blackrod, located about 3.5 hours north of Edmonton, isn’t an expansion or optimization of an existing project.  It’s a new facility built on a site that previously had no large-scale oil sands operations.  The 30,000-barrel-per-day steam-assisted gravit…