Type Public Products Oil, Natural Gas Headquarters Calgary, Canada | Industry Oil and Natural Gas CEO Brian C. Ferguson Founded 2009 | |
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Traded as TSX: CVE
NYSE: CVE
S&P/TSX 60 component Key people Brian Ferguson (CEO),
Michael A. Grandin (Board Chair) Revenue $20 billion CAD net before royalties (2015) Stock price CVE (TSE) CA$ 17.25 0.00 (0.00%)6 Mar, 4:00 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer Subsidiaries WRB Refining LP, FCCL Partnership, Cenovus Fccl Ltd, FCCL Oil Sands Partnership Profiles | ||
Cenovus energy joins list of companies cutting jobs spending after alberta ndp budget
Cenovus Energy Inc. (pronounced se-nō-vus) is an integrated oil company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
Contents
- Cenovus energy joins list of companies cutting jobs spending after alberta ndp budget
- 22 june 2010 cenovus energy celebrates recent nyse listing
- Board of Directors
- Operations
- Technology
- Environment
- Safety
- Community investment
- Worker housing
- References
Cenovus was formed on December 1, 2009 when Encana Corporation split into two distinct companies, with Cenovus becoming a focused integrated oil company. Some of Cenovus’s assets formerly belonged to PanCanadian Energy Corp. and Alberta Energy Company (AEC), the two Canadian oil and gas companies that merged to form Encana in 2002.
Cenovus is known for being a responsible developer of Canada’s oil sands, with an emphasis on innovation, safety and environmental stewardship. The company’s business strategy focuses on creating value through the development its oil sands assets, achieving predictable, reliable performance and maintaining financial resilience. Cenovus shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol CVE.
22 june 2010 cenovus energy celebrates recent nyse listing
Board of Directors
According to the Cenovus website, members of the Board of Directors include:
Ralph S. Cunningham, director of TETRA Technologies, Inc., who served as a director from the company's inception in 2009, retired in April 2016.
Operations
Cenovus has two producing projects in the Alberta oil sands – Foster Creek and Christina Lake (Alberta). Foster Creek and Christina Lake are 50 percent owned by ConocoPhillips. Cenovus also has conventional oil and natural gas operations across Alberta and Saskatchewan, including the Weyburn oilfield in Saskatchewan, which is the largest CO2 enhanced oil recovery operation in Canada. It’s also the site of the largest geological greenhouse gas storage project in the world, with about 27 million tonnes of CO2 safely stored underground. This has been extensively studied by researchers as part of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project.
Cenovus joined Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Suncor and Talisman Energy in the production of Western Canadian Select.
Cenovus has 50 percent ownership in two refineries in the United States: the Wood River Refinery (Illinois) and Borger, Texas refinery. Phillips 66 is the co-owner and operator.
Technology
The primary technology Cenovus uses at its Foster Creek and Christina Lake projects is called steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Cenovus also applies different associated technologies to enhance the SAGD process, such as electric submersible pumps at Foster Creek and solvent aided process (SAP) at Christina Lake.
In 2011, the company began applying its blowdown boiler technology to improve the efficiency of water use at its oil sands operations. In 2013, Cenovus developed its SkyStrat™ drilling rig that allows an exploratory rig to be flown into remote areas by helicopter piece-by-piece, set up to drill a test well, dismantled and airlifted away. The process requires no roads, meaning little disturbance to the boreal forest. The company received an Environmental Performance award for the SkyStrat™ program.
Environment
Cenovus has been recognized for its efforts in environmental stewardship. The company continues to work at improving its environmental performance for air, land and water. Cenovus is focusing on reducing its impact on wildlife habitats particularly to help protect declining woodland caribou.
Cenovus is a member of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA).
Safety
Employees, suppliers, contractors and consultants are required to understand and work by the company’s policies and practices. There’s a strong emphasis on the importance of safe driving. Cenovus is an alcohol- and drug-free workplace.
Community investment
Cenovus is an Imagine Canada Caring company. This means the company gives one percent of its pre-tax profits to charitable or non-profit organizations. Since 2009, the company has also invested $1.8 billion on goods and services supplied by Aboriginal businesses near its operations.
Worker housing
Cenovus provides housing for staff and other contract workers, commonly known as "camps", who work at their Christina Lake and Foster Creek projects and other locations in northern Alberta. A few of the bigger camps house up to 800 people when operations are at peak capacity. The camps employ housekeeping, kitchen, janitorial and technical support staff, as well as electricians and paramedics who work and live for a short time on-site as part of a shift rotation.