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Canada’s major oil sands producers are boosting crude production even if they aren’t starting up new projects. The secret sauce appears to be reducing maintenance times and extending maintenance cycles to squeeze more oil and raise efficiencies, Bloomberg reports. Suncor Energy, for example, completed ahead of schedule a multi-year effort to replace eight coke drums at its Base Plant…
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How Canada’s Oil Sands Producers Pump More Crude from the Same Assets
Christeen Schildgen
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Canada’s major oil sands producers are boosting crude production even if they aren’t starting up new projects. The secret sauce appears to be reducing maintenance times and extending maintenance cycles to squeeze more oil and raise efficiencies, Bloomberg reports. Suncor Energy, for example, completed ahead of schedule a multi-year effort to replace eight coke drums
