Alberta Oil Production Rises to Record That Tops China’s Production
- Oil-sands companies ramp up to fill new export pipeline
- Province’s output tops 4 million barrels a day for first ime
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Alberta’s oil production rose above 4 million barrels a day for the first time in November as oil-sands companies ramped up output to prepare to fill the largest new export pipeline in more than a decade.
Total production jumped by 336,822 barrels a day to 4.16 million barrels a day, the highest in data stretching back to 2010, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator’s website. Output over the first 11 months of the year averaged 3.79 million barrels a day, versus 3.73 million for all of 2022, the data show.