Murphy Oil: Kaybob Duvernay Partnership agreement between Murphy Oil Corporation(70% ownership) and Athabasca Oil; long-term development of oil and natural gas resources in northwest Alberta (Fox Creek) region.  

Encana: The Cutbank Ridge Partnership agreement between Mitsubishi Corporation and Encana; long-term development of natural gas resources in northeast British Columbia

Syncrude: a joint venture of oil and gas companies mining the Athabasca oil sands – holds eight leases covering 258,000ha, 40km north of Fort McMurray. 

Imperial Oil: Kearl Lake is considered one of Canada’s highest-quality oil sands deposits and is being developed with technology innovations that reduce cost and enhance environmental performance.  Located 70 kilometres (43.5 miles) north of Fort McMurray, AB, Kearl is jointly owned by Imperial (71%) and ExxonMobil Canada (29%), Kearl has an estimated 4.6 billion barrels of recoverable bitumen resource. Production at Kearl’s initial development began in April 2013 while the start-up of the Kearl expansion in mid-2015 brought production capacity to 220,000 bpd.

Shell: Located in Strathcona County, 45 km northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Shell opened a refinery and chemical plant on the Scotford site in 1984. Scotford was the first refinery to exclusively process synthetic crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands. In 2000, a glycols plant was also opened at Scotford. In 2003, Shell opened an upgrader at Scotford to process bitumen from Shell Albian Sands north of Fort McMurray as part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, a joint venture among Shell Canada, Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil. The upgrader was expanded in 2011 and Shell’s flagship carbon capture and storage facility – called Quest – was added in 2015.