Canadian Natural Resources Limited Announces Quarterly Update on the Progress of the Horizon Oil Sands Project.CALGARY, Alberta -- Canadian Natural Resources Limited Canadian Natural Resources Limited TSX: CNQ NYSE: CNQ is an oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta. Operations are focused in Western Canada, the North Sea and offshore West Africa. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CNQ CNQ Cost of Non Quality CNQ Canadian Trading & Quotation System Inc. CNQ Club Neon Quebec (Quebec Neon Club) ) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNQ) ("Canadian Natural") is pleased to provide its regular quarterly update on the Horizon Oil Sands Project ("Horizon Project"). During the second quarter the Horizon Project continued with detailed engineering and infrastructure development activity and increased its project management team to 475 people. "The Horizon Project continues on time and on budget and we are meeting all of our major milestones. We currently have over 600 workers on site," commented Real Doucet, Senior Vice-President, Oil Sands.
HORIZON PROJECT STATUS SUMMARY
June 30, 2005 September 30, 2005
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Actual Plan Plan
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Work progress (cumulative) 6 % 6 % 14 %
Capital spending (cumulative) 6 % 7 % 13 %
Accomplished During Second Quarter Detailed Engineering - All project areas are fully staffed and overall detailed engineering is 27% complete and on schedule with over 1,000 engineering professionals working on the project design. Procurement - Total procurement progress is at C$3.3 billion awarded contracts and purchase orders with a further C$500 million in the tender stages. - Several common service and infrastructure agreements (i.e. concrete, camp catering, etc.) have been established with local and regional suppliers. Modularization - Module construction is well underway for the main piperack, with over 90% of the bulk materials received at the fabricator's yards. Construction - Achieved the project milestone of over 1 million manhours of site work during the quarter. Project to date is 1.4 million manhours worked on site. - All plant and initial mine area clearing were completed during the quarter. - Site grading and installation of deep underground utilities are approximately 50% complete and on schedule. - First plant site turnover to an EPC (1) (Entertainment PC) See HTPC. (2) (Electronic Product Code) A standard code for RFID tags administered by EPCglobal Inc. (www.epcglobalinc.org). contractor was achieved on schedule for the Coker foundations. - Completed construction of the first of three plant site camps. - Construction of temporary natural gas supply, water and sewage treatment Sewage treatment Unit processes used to separate, modify, remove, and destroy objectionable, hazardous, and pathogenic substances carried by wastewater in solution or suspension in order to render the water fit and safe for intended uses. plants and power supply was completed. - Overburden o·ver·bur·den tr.v. o·ver·bur·dened, o·ver·bur·den·ing, o·ver·bur·dens 1. To burden with too much weight; overload. 2. To subject to an excessive burden or strain; overtax. n. 1. removal in the mine area commenced three weeks ahead of schedule. Third Quarter Milestones - Occupancy of the first (of three) on-site camp, built to accommodate up to 1,500 construction personnel. - Completion and commissioning of the site aerodrome landing strip (capable of handling up to 737-size aircraft). - Detailed engineering planned to be over 60% complete. - Receive shipment of first modules on main piperack. - Ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale overburden removal operation to 60,000 tonnes / day. - Turnover plant site areas for Hydrotreating and Extraction foundation construction. A picture gallery providing visual updates on construction progress will be available on the Company's website (www.cnrl.com) commencing July 27, 2005. The Company's results for the second quarter will be released on August 3, 2005. A conference call will be held on that day at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Canadian Natural is a senior oil and natural gas production company, with continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the in its core areas located in Western Canada
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Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of important factors is not exhaustive. Although the Company believes that the expectations conveyed by the forward-looking statements are reasonable based on information available to it on the date such forward-looking statements are made, no assurances can be given as to future results, levels of activity and achievements. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or Management's estimates or opinions change. Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ) (TSX:CNQ) |
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