Husky Energy brings Alberta's Sunrise Energy project online
CALGARY, Alberta -- Husky Energy has started oil production at the Sunrise Energy project in northern Alberta.
Asim Ghosh, CEO of Husky Energy said, "Sunrise is the latest in a series of resilient, low sustaining capital projects to come online from our diverse portfolio. We are expecting more than forty years of production from this reservoir with very low ongoing capital costs."
Steam operations began in December 2014. Total production is expected to ramp up to full capacity of 60,000 bopd (30,000 bopd net to Husky) around the end of 2016.
Husky is the operator of Sunrise, which is located approximately 60 km northeast of Fort McMurray.
The company has a 50% working interest in the steam-assisted gravity drainage project with BP, which operates the jointly-owned BP-Husky Toledo refinery. Bitumen from Sunrise can be processed at the Toledo refinery.
