oil sands mine founded february 28 2009 headquarters fort mcmurray alberta canada key people peter janson senior vice president horizon operations products petroleum sco parent canadian natural resources website www.cnrl.com horizon oil sands the horizon oil sands project or horizon is an oil sands mining and upgrading project . horizon include s a surface oil sands mining and bitumen extraction plant complimented by on site bitumen upgrading with associated infrastructure to produce high quality sco . 1 horizon is 100 % owned and operated by canadian natural resources limited . canadian natural holds extensive leases that are estimated to contain approximately 14.4 billion barrels of bitumen initially in place biip with best estimate contingent resources other than reserves of 4.1 billion barrels of bitumen and 3.3 billion barrels of proved and probable sco reserves . the horizon oil sands are located on these leases just north of fort mcmurray alberta in the athabasca region . due to the massive resource base the mine and plant facilities are expected to produce for decades to come without production declines normally associated with crude oil production . 1 references edit a b http www.cnrl.com operations north america horizon oil sands.html external links edit official website alberta portal canada portal companies portal energy portal geography of canada portal this alberta related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title horizon oil sands & oldid 739195722 categories oil companies of canadacompanies based in albertafort mcmurraybituminous sands of canadanon renewable resource companies established in 2004joint venturesalberta stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 09 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view