Sturgeon Refinery

• The Sturgeon Refinery currently employs over 500 Albertans
  
  
• Peak construction of the refinery saw over 8,500 workers on the project daily, in addition to thousands of jobs in engineering firms and fabrication shops

The refinery maximizes value for Albertans by converting raw bitumen into lower carbon, ultra-low sulphur diesel and other products. It generates higher margins on raw materials while making fuel needed to meet growing demand for cleaner energy products.

Higher value products the refinery processes:

• low-carbon ultra-low sulphur diesel
• diluent
• naphtha
• low sulphur vacuum gas oil
• light ends

• The NWRP executes excellence in health, safety and environmental (HSE) performance with a Goal Zero approach – protecting personnel and the environment – and is the world’s only refinery designed from inception to minimize its environmental footprint through carbon capture
  
  
• Since June 2020, the refinery has captured an estimated 2.3 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The CO2 captured from the refinery serves as an anchor supply to the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL). At full capacity, the ACTL is the largest carbon capture, transportation, utilization and storage system in the world that exclusively uses captured industrial CO2.
  
  
• The refinery has some of the most effective sulphur recovery technology which reduces sulphur dioxide emissions during the refining process and allows an otherwise waste stream to be used as a valuable commodity that can be used in fertilizer production and other industrial processes
  
  
• Water management at the refinery is based on water reuse to limit freshwater intake from the North Saskatchewan River and minimize treated water discharge. The site is intentionally designed to retain stormwater and recycle it for use as plant process water.
  
  
• Approximately 95% of all waste generated at the Sturgeon Refinery site is recycled and diverted from landfills, with the exception of Domestic Waste