Syncrude Canada Ltd. is a leader in Canada’s oil sands industry, producing approximately 13 per cent of the nation’s crude oil requirements. Incorporated in 1964, our company is today the world’s largest producer of crude oil from oil sands, with cumulative crude oil production surpassing 1.6 billion barrels.

Our mission is to create wealth for our stakeholders from Canada’s oil sands through the 21st century by safely, reliably and profitably producing high quality crude oil and other products in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

Our Vision and Values Help Us Realize It

We are securing Canada’s energy future with the vision to lead, the knowledge to succeed, the commitment to do better and the heart to win the race.

We will achieve this by encouraging learning and innovation in everything we do, pushing the limits of what technology can accomplish and working together to make Syncrude the best place to work.

In this way, we will be safe, reliable and profitable, and all of our stakeholders will want to invest in our future.

To achieve our vision, we:

• are safe, reliable and profitable
• create our own future
• realize our potential
• respect competence and value contribution
• have the courage and conviction to do what is right
• interact with care, honesty and respect
• are a participative organization
• continuously improve

About This Report

This report is a comprehensive discussion about the social, economic and environmental impacts of Syncrude’s business activities. On the following pages we review our progress toward sustainable oil sands development, as well as our plans going forward. Data and information in this report is increasingly subject to either Syncrude’s own rigorous controls, internal audit, is gathered by or reviewed by external parties, or is subject to regulatory review. Some data also is subject to external benchmarking.

Actions taken by Syncrude in response to stakeholder concerns raised during our stakeholder engagement processes are noted throughout this report; these actions are indicated by the symbol. This is Syncrude's fourth sustainability report and we welcome your comments and feedback to info@syncrude.com or our toll-free telephone line at 1-800-667-9494. More information about Syncrude, as well as access to past sustainability and annual reports, can be found at www.syncrude.com. Contact information for Syncrude's Joint Venture owners can be found on the Corporate Information page of this website.