Image Library

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General
1 Enormous wood bison sculptures mark the entrance to the Syncrude site.	2 Syncrude plant gate, Mildred Lake.	3 Syncrude plant site.
4 Syncrude's Expansion Facilities	5 The co-generation unit at the Aurora project.	6 Aerial view of Fort McMurray
7 Syncrude Sweet Blend is a high quality, light sweet crude oil.	8 In its raw state, bitumen is a black, asphalt-like oil.
Environment
1 Bison grazing on reclaimed land.	2 Land reclaimed with jack pine on the Syncrude site.	3 Land that was seeded with a mixture of native grasses and trees in the 1990's.
4 Around 300 wood bison call Syncrude home.	5 Gateway Hill: Syncrude has built a network of interpretive trails through reclaimed land.	6 Gateway Hill: This 104-hectare parcel of land is among Syncrude's most mature reclamation areas. To date, Syncrude has reclaimed more than 4,500 hectares at its operation north of Fort McMurray
7 Gateway Hill: The public is welcome to see land reclamation themselves on the 4.5-km interpretative trail through Gateway Hill. It's called Matcheetawin Trail, which is Cree for beginning place.
Mining
1 P&H electric cable shovel loads CAT 797 haul truck	2 Komatsu Heavy Hauler in North Mine	3 O&K hydraulic shovel loads a CAT 797 truck.
4 Liebherr Heavy Hauler in North Mine	5 One of the world's largest trucks, the CAT 797.
Extraction and Upgrading
1 Oil sand feed to the cyclofeeder (North mine).	2 Hydrotransport pipeline leads to the Aurora Primary Separation Vessel.	3 The Primary Separation Vessel, heart of the extraction plant at Aurora.
4 Inside a flotation cell at Aurora extraction facility.	5 Froth booster pumps at the Aurora project.	6 Upgrading employees with one of the world's largest Vacuum Distillation Units in the background.