A brief history of the Alberta oil sands ... from early explorers to over 3 million bbl/day.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:10 Introduction
1:38 1715 • Early pioneers
2:53 1926 • The Clark Hot Water Process
3:05 1929 • First commercial plant (Bitumount)
3:25 1959 • First in-situ trial in Athabasca (Shell)
3:48 1964 • First in-situ trial in Cold Lake (Imperial)
4:45 1967 • First commercial oil sands mine (Suncor Base Plant)
5:47 1975 • First CSS pilot (Imperial Cold Lake)
5:30 1985 • First commercial CSS facility (Imperial Cold Lake)
5:46 1987 • The Underground Test Facility (UTF)
6:22 2001 • First commercial SAGD facility (Foster Creek)
7:20 2012 • In-situ production overtakes mining
8:09 2022 • Record oil sands production (3.3M bbl/day)

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