Engineering Showcase Projects
The engineering industry in Alberta is diverse and competitive. Companies across the province are engaged in a wide array of projects, including the following:
- Conventional mined oil sands projects: Syncrude and Suncor; CNRL Horizon
- Heavy Oil Upgrading: Husky Oil, Lloydminster; Petro-Canada, Sturgeon County
- Infrastructure Projects: Mount Royal College Learning Centre, National Institute for Nanotechnology, North Saskatchewan River Bridge
- In Situ Oil Sands developments: Imperial Oil Resources, Cold Lake; BP-Amoco Petroleum, Wolf Lake
- Natural gas processing plants, with special sour gas processing: Shell, Caroline
- Petrochemical projects: NOVA Chemicals Corporation and BP-Amoco Chemicals, Joffre; Union Carbide, Prentiss and Dow Chemical, Fort Saskatchewan
- Petroleum exploration, reservoir engineering and economic evaluations: Alberta and globally
- Petroleum production facilities: throughout Alberta (gathering systems, satellites, batteries, fieldgates)
- Pulp and paper mills: Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Ltd. (ALPAC), Alberta Newsprint, Daishowa-Marubeni International
- Thermal power generation and cogeneration plants (TransAlta Corporation, ATCO Power, EPCOR)
- Water resource and irrigation projects (Dickson Dam, Oldman River Dam, reservoir related facilities in Southern Alberta, Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant)
Award winning projects and firms:
- Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA) > Showcase Directory
For further information about the construction industry in Alberta, contact:
- Patricia Armitage, M.Eng., P.Eng., Director, Architecture/Engineering/Construction
- Paul Godfrey, Director, Industrial Machinery & Equipment
Updated: June 2007
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