With a line of sight to expanding pipeline capacity from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, producers plan to grow crude oil production. Today, we go through all the Alberta oil sands growth projects planned over the next several years.

Turn Me Loose – Alberta’s Oil Sands Producers Poised to Significantly Ramp Up Crude Oil Output

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Turn Me Loose, Alberta's Oil Sands Producers Poised to Significantly Ramp Up Crude Oil Output, published by Mike Dunn. With another 180,000 barrels per day of pipeline capacity out of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, WCSB, expected online by late next year, and potentially another 1.7 million barrels per day of capacity being proposed over the next several years, excluding a new pipeline to the west coast of Canada,

WCSB producers are looking to grow their crude oil production. With no shortage of resources to develop in the oil sands, in today's RBN blog, we look at all the Alberta oil sands growth projects currently proposed over the next several years. In part 1 of this series, we discuss the drivers behind WCSB crude oil production nearly doubling from 2010 to 2025, as well as its seasonal trends.

In part 2, we reviewed the major pipeline projects that expanded capacity to move barrels out of the WCSB up to this point, how the timing of those projects matched up with supply growth, and current export pipeline capacity. In part 3, we examined how WCSB crude oil price discounts are impacted by pipeline scarcity and production seasonality. In part 4, we looked at where WCSB crude oil goes, how it gets there, and how its end markets have evolved over time.

Turn Me Loose – Alberta’s Oil Sands Producers Poised to Significantly Ramp Up Crude Oil Output

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Turn Me Loose – Alberta’s Oil Sands Producers Poised to Significantly Ramp Up Crude Oil Output

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.