Member Companies
Shell Canada
Location
15 km northeast of Fort Saskatchewan
Employees and full time contractors (excluding construction workforce)
Approximately 1,500 including the Refinery, Chemicals Plant and Upgrader
Products
Synthetic Crude Oil, Catalysts, Process Chemicals, Products Chemicals, C3C4 Mix, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Diesels, Heavy Distillate, Benzene, Heavy Aromatics, n-Hexane, Sulphur
Contact
Phone: 780-992-3600
Overview
Shell Scotford is pleased to be an operator in the Fort Saskatchewan region for more than 25 years. Shell Scotford is comprised of three sites - the chemicals plant, refinery and upgrader. The refinery manufactures a suite of products that includes gasoline, low sulphur diesel, jet fuel and others; the chemicals plant produces styrene monomer (used to manufacture plastics) and ethylene glycol (used for fleece for jackets).
The upgrader, a joint venture project with partners Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil Sands LP, started processing bitumen from Shell's Muskeg River Mine north of Fort McMurray in 2003 and currently has a design capacity of 155,000 bpd. There are two pipelines coming into the upgrader: one brings heavy bitumen and diluent which are separated at the upgrader using a hydro conversion process, and the second returns the diluent back to Fort McMurray .
Shell is in the midst of expanding its upgrader by building a 100,000-barrel-per-day facility directly north of its base upgrader. The construction workforce on Shell's expansion peaked in 2009, and when completed in late 2010/early 2011 the new upgrader will add approximately 300 full-time Shell employees and 100 full-time contractors.