Suncor Energy is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Suncor Energy was ranked as the 48th-largest public company in the world.
Suncor Energy's refinery in Commerce City, Colorado.
One of Suncor's Bombardier CRJs in 2008
Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, soaked with bitumen, a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum.
Tar sandstone from California, United States
The City of Fort McMurray on the banks of the Athabasca River
Cold Lake viewed from Meadow Lake Provincial Park, Saskatchewan
Panorama of the Orinoco River