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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
From the article linked, the claims from both Cenovus (“oil sands emissions intensity that is less than the average barrel of oil refined in the US”) and CNRL (“GHG emissions intensity for oil sands operations are approximately 5% higher than emissions intensity for global crude”) would seem to contradict that they’re in the top third. I’m sure there are some ops that are worse than others and there is a distinction between mining and SAGD but on average, unless these companies are lying, they around average. That probabaly also doesn’t include the carbon sequestration CNRL has, they’re the fifth largest sequester of any oil and gas company in the world taking 750,000 cars off the road annually.
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Cenovous has Christian Lake which is a crazy good asset driving down SOR. So while Cenovous is excellent compare it with say Imperials Cold Lake cyclic steam asset or the CNRL Cyclic steam assets where the SOR is much higher.
For GHG production I think you really need to look asset by asset. What would be nice would be an approximate SOR equating a per barrel emmissions intensity for easy comparisons for in situ production.