Oil sands producers including MEG Energy and Imperial Oil are reconsidering oil sands expansions as new export pipelines are delayed and the provincial government limits production.
MEG had planned to ramp up output at an expansion of its Christina Lake oil sands project in the second half of the year. Now, the “probability of that going ahead this year has decreased” after Enbridge announced a year delay on its Line 3 expansion, Derek Evans, MEG’s CEO, said March 8.