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r i Energy Development if Infrastructure IN-SITU MOVES TO THE MAINSTREAM LIGHT RAIL, BUILDINGS AND BRIDGE WILL SHAPE TACOMA’S NEW IMAGE A CANADIAN OIL COMPANYIS BIDDING TO become a major developer and refiner in northeast Alberta’s oil sands. Petro-Cana­ da, Calgary, has filed for permits for an I 80,000-barrel-per-day in-situ bitumen-pro­ duction project and a refinery conversion project Toted costs are estimated between 1 dQ $3 billion and $3.6 billion. The development, estimated between ■ J 4 $444 million and $500 million, would be r located at Meadow Creek, Alberta, about 45 kilometers south of Fort McMurray. It would extract bitumen using a state-of- the-art steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), which uses vertical pairs of hori­ zontal wells driven into deep seams of oil ll sands. Steam injected into the upper well i . I 1 heats the bitumen, causing it to flow into the lower well, from which it can be pumped to the surface. An alliance of Petro-Canada, Calgary­ ' A based Colt Engineering Corp, and Flint Energy Services Ltd., Edmonton, is con­ structing a similar 30,000-bpd SAGD proj­ GLASS BRIDGE Span of sculptures will link areas that are undergoing construction. ect at MacKay River, 60 km northwest of Fort McMurray. That will be only the TRACK-LAYING HAS BEGUN FOR A 1.6- The University of Washington, which second commercial application of SAGD mile light-rail segment in Tacoma, Wash., opened a Tacoma branch campus in technology, says Chris Dawson, Petro­ the latest in millions of dollars worth of 1990, has invested heavily in the port Canada spokesman. The first, Calgary­ new construction that the city hopes will neighborhood, spending $100 million based All^rta Energy Co. Ltd.’s 20,000- augment its new image. on new construction and conversion of bpd project at Foster Creek, Alberta, be­ By early 2003, the first operational seg- 120-year-old warehouses into campus gan production last month, says an AEG ment of Sound Transit’s $2.1-billion sys- facilities. The district will link to the spokesman. Production at MacKay River tern will open in Tacoma, making it the waterfront by a $16-million “Bridge of is scheduled for late 2002. first city in Washington state to have light Glass’* across State Rte. 507 that will be Dawson says the Meadow Creek proj­ rail. The segment will link the Tacoma adorned with glass works. In addition, ect probably will have features compara­ Dome arena and the city’s downtown, Simpson Timber Co. has invested nearly ble to MacKay River’s. These would and eventually would be linked to a 14- $300 million in its packaging plant at the include 60 well pairs on concrete pads, a mile system into Seatde. Port of Tacoma to minimize sulfurous steam line to the wellheads and a return Construction of five Tacoma light-rail discharges that generated what residents line for bitumen, holding tanks, a pipe­ stations will begin when the roadway is in call the Tacoma Aroma. ” line to market or to a refinery and a co­ place, says Martin L. Strong, project man- Tacoma officials also hope that a $100- generation plant to provide steam and ager for Sound Transit’s consultant, URS million investment by pity-owned Taco- electricity. “It’s reasonable to assume that Construction Services. A contract for ma Power in a city-wide fiber-optic system there will be an alliance of some sort. It’s installation of catenary wires and poles is will lure high-tech firms out of higher- working very well at MacKay River,” he likely to be let in January. Overall, Sound rent spaces in Seattle. The spark began adds. Petro-Canada owns 75% of the Transit now has 45 separate capital pro- several years ago when Tacoma Power Meadow Creek project, with Nexen Inc., jects under way, says spokesperson Lee automated control systems linking eight Calgary, owning the rest. Somerstein. hydroplants and installed computer-read Petro-Canada also is evaluating a con­ The system will wind into a downtown meters through its 180-sq-mile service version of its Edmonton refinery at a cost waterfront that is the focus of a major re- area. By 1998, nearly 800 miles of self- estimated between $2.6 billion and $3.1 vival. Projects under way include a $90- healing fiber had been installed and the billion. The two-phase program would million, 240,000-sq-ft convention center, utility invested heavily in cable and phone I convert the facility from refining 80,000 a $54-million, 75,000-sq-ft glass museum, systems. More than 125 businesses have § bpd of light crude feedstock to process- a $25-million relocated art museum, and tied into the fiber network, and ^est 3 ing 85,000 bpd of bitumen in the first a $100-million apartment and townhouse and AT&T, prodded by competition, I phase, with a subsequent possible expan- project There are 1,300 residential units have invested nearly $200 million in new I sion to 170,000 bpd. under construction or in planning in infrastructure. The city is now eyeing the “ Production at Meadow Creek and op- downtown Tacoma, says Eric Steinmeyer, voiceover Internet protocol phone mar- o eration of the converted refinery both are commercial account manager for the lo- ket □ I anticipated in 2007. □ cal Rainier Title Co. By Steve Daniels in Tacoma

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