Welcome to Energy Connections – Oil Sands Partnerships

 

 

For information on the Kearl Oil Sands project and on the procurement process, call 1-888-666-7617 or visit the Kearl website.

 

Helping you make the right connections

If you’re an Ontario manufacturer looking for new markets, Canada’s oil sands industry may offer an enormous opportunity.

Ontario manufacturers interested in working with Alberta companies are encouraged to submit a profile detailing their capabilities on our online Directory of Ontario Manufactures and Suppliers – and energy companies looking for technologies, products and services are also invited to search this directory.

In the three years we’ve been offering this service, Alberta companies in the oils sands have sourced tens of millions of dollars worth of expertise from Ontario.

The oil sands are expected to generate capital projects worth $160 billion by 2020, an unprecedented demand that’s forced energy suppliers to go outside the province for manufacturing capacity.

The Ontario government, in partnership with our manufacturing industry, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and the Alberta and federal governments, has built a “made-in-Canada” solution, matching Alberta energy suppliers with Ontario manufacturers.

Key areas of opportunity for Ontario manufacturers include:

• Coatings and heat-treating
• Engineering and construction
• Environmental technologies
• Fabricated metal products
• Industrial accommodation
• Industrial machinery and equipment
• Infrastructure
• Machine shops
• Pre-fabricated housing
• Structural steel
• Tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers

AUTOMATIC COATING LIMITED - Diversifying while Keeping an Eye on Quality
“Our participation at the National Buyer/Seller Forum has allowed us to diversify our business offerings at a time when fabrication of traditional steel parts had moved offshore,” says Jocelyn Williams, Vice President, Automatic Coating Ltd. (ACL).

BURNCO MANUFACTURING INC. - New Markets, Strong Accolades
“The western Canadian industrial marketplace is crucial to our long-term plans and our participation in the National Buyer/Seller Forum since 2006 has helped to capture work outside of our traditional markets,” says Erwin Terwoord, Senior Director, Business Development, Burnco Manufacturing.

CANCARD INC. - New Contacts, New Opportunities
“The contacts we made through the National Buyer/Seller Forum have helped to expand our immediate sales in Alberta and in the oil industry in general,” says John Flett, President, Cancard Inc.

BERG CHILLING SYSTEMS INC. - Shift of Gears Pays Off
“Our new emphasis and shift to the oil and alternative energy markets has helped us to weather the current economic storm,” says Yury Mikhail, Regional Manager of Toronto’s Berg Chilling Systems Inc. (Berg).

B&W to Supply Modular Boilers for Kearl Oil Sands Project
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, July 13, 2009
Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. ("B&W Canada") has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for Phase 1 of the Kearl Oil Sands Project ("Kearl") being developed by Imperial Oil in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, East of Kearl Lake, 70 km North of Fort McMurray, Alberta. B&W Canada is an indirect subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company ("B&W").

ES FOX in the oil sands
Niagara Falls
Several years of persistence, many phone calls and frequent visits to Alberta are paying dividends for E.S. Fox Ltd., an Ontario-based construction, fabrication and engineering company. The firm is among many Ontario manufacturers winning contracts stemming from Alberta’s oil sands. E.S. Fox recently achieved preferred supplier status with Shell Canada.

Aecon
Cambidge
Construction of 175 Piperack and Process Modules for Suncor’s Millennium Oil Sands Upgrader Expansion located in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The construction of modules included erection of 4,500 tonnes of Structural Steel, fabrication and installation of 40,000 metres of Piping, installation of 10,000 metres of Electrical Cable Tray, installation of Process Equipment and application of 2,300 square metres of Fireproofing. Aecon was also responsible weighing, rigging and load out of these modules which weighed from 50 up to 150 tonnes each. These modules were transported over land using heavy hauling equipment. The manpower at our facilities peaked at approx. 250 direct hire tradesmen and approx. 150 subtrade personnel.

Westlake Industries
Burlington
Westlake Industries was contracted by Bechetel Canada Ltd. to supply prefabricated piping for the Shell Canada UE-1 off-module project. Westlake's scope of work exceeded 22,000 pipe spools and 670,000 diameter inches to be completed in a 16 month schedule. Pipe sizes ranged from NPS ¾" diameter through NPS 60" diameter and included normal and low temperature carbon steel, 304, 316, and duplex stainless steel, alloy 20, 1 ¼” chrome alloy, titanium spools and related pipe supports.