Alberta’s crude oil output in April 2025 reached a record high for the month at 4.0 MMb/d (rightmost blue column and text in chart below), 0.1 MMb/d above one year ago (itself the prior record holder for April), down 0.2 MMb/d from March, and marks the seventh consecutive month of oil production at or greater than 4.0 MMb/d.
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- Analyst Insight
Alberta Crude Oil Sets March Production Record
Alberta's output of crude oil set a new record for March at 4.19 MMb/d. Record production of bitumen was partly offset by a sharp fall in synthetic output.
- Analyst Insight
Alberta’s May Crude Oil Production Sets Two-Year Low
Alberta's May crude oil output took a big tumble versus April thanks to wildfires and turnarounds.
- Blog
Turn Around, Look at Me - Maintenance to Curb Alberta's Synthetic Crude Oil Production This Spring
Production of synthetic crude oil that is processed from Alberta’s oil sands reached record highs at the end of 2020 after touching on two year lows just four months earlier. However, these highs could be undermined and sink to four-year lows for a short period of time this spring with what appears to be a heavier than usual slate of maintenance work on three of Alberta’s four upgraders, the immense processing units that produce synthetic crude oil from bitumen. In today’s blog, we take a closer look at the upgraders, the timing of maintenance, and what this might mean for synthetic crude oil production and exports.
