Oil sand industry thermal energy intensity factors Canada 2019

This statistic shows the Canadian oil sands industry median and latest empirical values of thermal energy intensity factors of different projects. As of 2019, the median thermal energy intensity for mining operations was 0.33 gigajoules per barrel of output, while the latest empirical value was 0.35 gigajoules per barrel of output.

Canadian oil sand industry thermal energy intensity factors as of 2019, by project (in gigajoule per barrel of output)

Characteristic	Median value	Latest emprical value
Mining	0.33	0.35
In-situ: SAGD	1.18	0.97
In-situ: CSS	1.43	1.4
In-situ: Primary (CHOPS)/Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)	0.5	-
In-situ: Electric heating technologies	1.34	-
Coking	0.45	-
Hydrocracking (HC)	0.38	0.77
Integrated Mining & Upgrading	1.45	0.95
Integrated In-situ & Upgrading	2.58	2.45

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July 2019

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Canada

Survey time period

2019

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Missing values mean that no data was available.

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