Syncrude's Stage 3 expansion, also known as UE-1, includes the development of the Aurora 2 mine and the addition of a third, 100,000-barrel per day fluid coker.
Stage 3 also includes facilities to improve the quality of Syncrude's total site production, which will be increased to about 350,000 barrels per day on project completion in mid-2006.
All UE-1 personnel, upgrading, utilities and extraction shutdown crews and office personnel working in or in the vicinity of the Frank Spragins complex were asked to stay at home last Wednesday.
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