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The Best Attractions In Fort McMurray

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Fort McMurray is a population centre, technically classified as an urban service area, in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant role in the development of the national petroleum industry. A severe wildfire in May 2016 led to the evacuation of its residents and caused widespread damage. Formerly a city, Fort McMurray became an urban service area when it amalgamated with Improvement District No. 143 on April 1, 1995, to create the Municipality of Wood Buffalo . Despite its current official designat...
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  • 1. Oil Sands Discovery Centre Fort Mcmurray
    Oil sands, also known as tar sands or crude bitumen, or more technically bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, saturated with a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen .Natural bitumen deposits are reported in many countries, but in particular are found in extremely large quantities in Canada. Other large reserves are located in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Venezuela. The estimated worldwide deposits of oil are more than 2 trillion barrels ; the estimates include deposits that have not been discovered. Proven reserves of bitumen contain approximately 100 billion barrels, and total natural bitu...
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  • 9. Landmark Cinema Fort Mcmurray
    Landmark Cinemas is a Canadian movie theatre chain owned by Kinepolis Group. It is the second-largest theatre chain in Canada, operating 44 cinemas with 302 screens primarily in Ontario, Central, and Western Canada; its holdings include much of the former Empire Theatres chain, which it acquired in late 2013, and selected Famous Players locations divested in its purchase by Cineplex Entertainment. The chain was founded in May 7, 1965, and is based in Calgary, Alberta.
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  • 11. McMurray Airport Limo Fort Mcmurray
    Fort McMurray International Airport is located 7 nautical miles southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. YMM is the largest airport in northern Alberta. It has daily flights to Edmonton, Calgary, Fort Chipewyan, Vancouver and Toronto through airlines Air Canada, WestJet, McMurray Aviation and Northwestern Air. Sunwing airline used to fly to seasonal vacation destinations in Mexico 2012-2015.The airport is managed by the Fort McMurray Airport Authority, a community-based not-for-profit organization that has operated YMM since 2010. The airport has seen a significant rise in passengers over the last 10 years due to intense development of the Athabasca oil sands. Flights are frequently booked to capacity because of the high transient worker population and people unwilling to drive on Albe...
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  • 15. Syncrude Sport & Wellness Centre Fort Mcmurray
    Syncrude Canada Ltd. is one of the world's largest producers of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada. It is located just outside Fort McMurray in the Athabasca Oil Sands, and has a nameplate capacity capacity of 350,000 barrels per day of oil, equivalent to about 13% of Canada's consumption. It has approximately 5.1 billion barrels of proven and probable reserves situated on 8 leases over 3 contiguous sites. Including fully realized prospective reserves, current production capacity could be sustained for well over 90 years.The company is a joint venture between five partners. As a result, Syncrude is not traded directly, but rather through the individual owners. As of February 2018, the partners : Suncor Energy , Imperial Oil , Sinopec , Nexen...
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