Shell Canada closer to expanding oil sands project

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Shell Canada Ltd. (SHC.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , the country’s No. 2 oil producer and refiner, said on Friday it has filed regulatory applications to expand capacity at its Athabasca oil sands project in northern Alberta.

The company plans to increase capacity at the Muskeg River mine to about 300,000 barrels a day from 155,000 by enlarging its mining area and by adding another bitumen extraction train to its existing plant.

The expansion projects are expected to increase synthetic crude production to about 300,000 barrels a day by 2010.