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The Centre for Energy’s portal is loaded with factual and statistical information about Canada’s energy system. But we still get questions, like this one.chrome://foxytunes-public/content/signatures/signature-button.png

Q:  How much oil sands production is exported?

A: According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, about half of Canada’s oil sands production is exported to the United States. In 2007, total oil sands production amounted to 513,893 barrels per day of synthetic crude and 687,497 barrels per day of bitumen, for a total of 1,201,390 barrels per day, so about 600,695 barrels per day were exported.

Canada’s total crude oil and equivalents production for 2007 was:

Production Type	Barrels/day	Per Cent
Conventional Crude Oil	1,385,058	50.1
Pentanes Plus/Condensate	176,749	6.4
Synthetic Crude	513,893	18.6
Bitumen	687,497	24.9
Total	2,763,197	100.0

Oil sands production exports amounted to 43.5 per cent of total Canadian production.

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