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Connacher Oil and Gas Limited is a Calgary-based exploration, development and production company active in the production and sale of bitumen in the Athabasca oil sands region. Connacher’s shares trade on the TSX under the symbol CLL. Connacher's principal asset is a 100 percent interest in approximately 500 million barrels of proved and probable bitumen reserves located on the company's Great Divide oil sands 50 miles south of Fort McMurray, Alberta.() The company’s first notional 10,000 bbl/d Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil sands project at Great Divide, Pod One, commenced commercial production in March 2008, just four short years from our first purchase of lands in the region. Algar, the company's second notional 10,000 bbl/d SAGD oil sands project at Great Divide was completed in April 2010, ahead of schedule and under budget, with commerciality achieved effective October 1, 2010. In September 2012, Connacher received approval from the Energy Resources Conservation Board for the development of its 24,000 bbl/d Great Divide Expansion Project. () == History == In 2004 founder and CEO Richard Gusella, a veteran in the oil sands, began to build Connacher Oil and Gas Limited in increments by purchasing "one 10,000-barrel-per-day SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) plant at a time," starting with underground oil sands leases south of Fort McMurray. He acquired Montana Refining Company, Inc. in Great Falls, Montana ", to hedge against a huge spread between bitumen and synthetic crude oil prices."〔 This was sold to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT) in 2012. Connacher also sold the Great Divide Pipeline Company at the same time to Calumet for a combined price of about C$120 million.〔 In 2007 Connacher's state-of-the-art SAGD Great Divide plant was opened at its Great Divide Pod One, its first 10,000 bpd oil sands project. By 2007, Connacher self-defined as a crude and natural gas exploration, development and production company" with an "extensive reserve, resource and acreage position in the oil sands of Alberta."〔 By 2007 Connacher owned "considerable conventional resources in the Marten Creek, Three Hills and Battrum regions of western Canada; owns and operates a 9,500 barrel per day refinery in Great Falls, Montana and maintains a valuable 26 percent equity stake in Petrolifera Petroleum Limited (PDP - TSX), a public company active in Argentina, Colombia and Peru in South America."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Connacher Oil and Gas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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