Horizon Oil Sands is an oil sands mining and upgrading project in Bitumount, Alberta, Canada. The project includes a surface oil sands mining and bitumen extraction plant, complemented by on-site bitumen upgrading with associated infrastructure. Initial examination of the Horizon project began in 2004. Construction started in 2005 and it started operating on February 28, 2009. Horizon is owned and operated by

Canadian Natural Resources Canadian Natural Resources Limited, or CNRL or Canadian Natural is a senior Canadian oil and natural gas company that operates primarily in the Western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, with offshore op ...

. The company holds leases that are estimated to contain approximately of bitumen initially in place (BIIP), with best estimate contingent resources other than reserves of of bitumen and of proved and probablereserves. The Horizon Oil Sands are located on these leases just north of

Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significan ...

, Alberta in the Athabasca region.

Controversy

On April 25, 2007, two employees were killed when a roof situated at the location collapsed. In addition, four other people were injured in the incident. On September 3, 2008, a contract employee was killed when their backhoe overturned in a tailings pond.

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* Oil companies of Canada Companies based in Alberta Bituminous sands of Canada {{oilfield-stub