100 million barrels of oil sands production achieved

CALGARY, June 6 /CNW/ - Shell Canada announced today that the Athabasca
Oil Sands Project achieved its first 100 million barrels of bitumen production
after just over two years of operations.
The Athabasca Oil Sands Project has been in operation since April 2003
and reached cumulative production of 100 million barrels on June 4, 2005.
"This first 100 million barrels of production from the oil sands is very
significant for Shell and the Athabasca Oil Sands Project," said Neil Camarta,
Shell's Senior Vice President of Oil Sands. "With this milestone, we have
firmly established ourselves as a proven oil sands operator - with the
experience and confidence to grow this business to more than 500,000 barrels
per day."
The Athabasca Oil Sands Project consists of the Muskeg River Mine located
north of Fort McMurray, Alberta and the Scotford Upgrader located near
Edmonton and is a joint venture among Shell Canada Limited (60 per cent),
Chevron Canada Limited (20 per cent) and Western Oil Sands L.P. (20 per cent).

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