Suncor Energy has brought forward a planned eight-week maintenance turnaround at a Syncrude site because a separate line maintenance issue needed to be resolved that required the plant to be shutdown.
Conducting the turnaround at the same time as resolving the line issue was deemed to ensure efficient use of resources and cause less impact on production.
As a result of the changed plans, Q1 production is anticipated to reduce to around 140,000 barrels of oil per day (bbls/d). However, the 2018 annual production is expected to remain within the annual guidance range.
The Syncrude Project is a joint venture (JV) between Imperial Oil Resources, Nexen Oil Sands Partnership, Sinopec Oil Sands Partnership, and Suncor Energy.
Suncor Energy noted that Syncrude Oil Sands’ production operations have been supported by reliable operations at the Firebag and MacKay River in-situ plants.
Linked to weather issues in January, the total outage at Suncor Energy’s base plant operations is projected to result in a fall of Q1 production to around 400,000bbls/d.
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By GlobalDataHowever, a secondary extraction train commenced operations at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills facility on 27 January this year will lead to an average Q1 production of around 25,000bbls/d.
Aggregate output for Q1 from Suncor Energy’s exploration and production (E&P) portfolio is forecast to be around 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).
