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Northern Alberta, home to one of the greatest oil deposits in the world.
While others have been working in the oil sands for over 40 years...
Shell is a newer player. We successfully built and have operated...
the Athabasca oil sands project since 2003.
Our Muskeg river mine near Fort McMurray and Scotford Upgrader...
near Edmonton, can produce 155,000 barrels of synthetic crude per day.
Now we've expanded. To meet the world's growing energy needs...
we've added 100,000 barrels per day to our operation.
Back in August and September of last year...
we announced the successful start-up of the Jackpine mine.
In fact, this was one of the safest and the fastest start-ups...
to date in the industry.
That's something that we're really proud of.
More recently, we announced the start-up of our upgrading facilities...
near Edmonton.
Over the last decade, we have delivered almost 250,000 barrels a day...
of mining and upgrading capacity.
Shell strives to be the most competitive and innovative energy company.
As the world's demand for secure energy increases...
oil sands has an important role to play.
With a robust resource base and technological expertise...
Shell can meet future energy needs and develop oil sands responsibly.
But building AOSP wasn't easy.
This is a testimony to every man and woman who worked on the project.
At the peak of construction, we had 6,500 workers at our Albian site...
and 10,000 workers at our Scotford site.
This project has been going for five years.
And over this five-year period, we have trained 34,000 people...
who have worked on our Albian site...
and 45,000 people who have worked on this project at our Scotford site.
We've also built for the future.
Forty percent of our workers at Albian were apprentices.
And thirty percent of the workers at Scotford.
We were able to encourage women to work in the trades.
In fact, 30 percent of those construction workers at Albian, were female.
Aboriginal staff are also a big part of our work force.
And I'm also pleased to say that over the last five years...
we have passed through in excess of one billion dollars of work...
to our Aboriginal contractors.
That's been achieved in five years...
many of our competitors have only achieved that over a 20-year period.
One thing that's notable about this project is safety.
Back in 2010 we achieved 43 million work hours without a lost-time injury.
That was something which set an internal record within Shell...
but has also been recognised externally...
with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers...
who also accredited this an HSE award.
Of particular importance is continuing to reduce our environmental footprint.
With that in mind, we have recently developed strategies...
which will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions...
our water consumption...
and which will enable us to better manage the land.
We will be able to build upon our base operations...
as well as our expansion operations...
to de-bottleneck our facilities and increase our production...
over the next seven to ten years, by up to 85,000 barrels a day.
But it isn't just about increasing our production.
This de-bottlenecking will also enable us to reduce our carbon-intensity...
as well as to reduce our unit costs.
Shell is proud to be an operator of the Athabasca oil sands project.
To be part of Alberta and to be part of business in Canada.
We work here, we live here and we will continue...
to develop this resource in a responsible manner.