23 Facts About Suncor

Suncor Energy is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta.

Until 2010, Suncor marketed products and services to retail customers in Ontario through a downstream network of 780 company-owned, and 700 customer-operated retail and Diesel fuel sites, primarily in Ontario under the Sunoco brand .

In 2009, Suncor acquired the former Crown corporation Petro-Canada, which replaced the Sunoco brand across its existing outlets.

Suncor was founded in 1919 in Montreal as Sun Company of Canada, a subsidiary of Sun Oil .

In 1979, Sun formed Suncor by merging its Canadian refining and retailing interests; Great Canadian Oil Sands ; and its conventional oil and gas interests.

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In 2003, Suncor acquired a refinery and associated Phillips 66 gas stations in Commerce City, Colorado from ConocoPhillips.

In 2005, Suncor acquired a second Commerce City refinery from Valero Energy.

Suncor moved its retail brand from Phillips 66 to Shell from 2009 to 2013.

Suncor added the Exxon and Mobil brands in Colorado and Wyoming in 2015.

In December 2009, as a condition of the merger, Suncor sold 98 gas stations in Ontario to Husky Energy, consisting of 68 Sunoco-branded locations and 30 Petro-Canada-branded locations.

In fall 2021, Suncor assumed operatorship of the Syncrude Joint Venture oil sands project in a bid to improve its performance.

In North America, Suncor develops and produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada, Colorado, and offshore drilling in eastern Canada.

Suncor operates refineries in Edmonton, Alberta; Sarnia, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec and Commerce City, Colorado.

Suncor is one of the largest Canadian retailers of petroleum products.

Suncor is the world's largest producer of bitumen, and owns and operates an oil sands upgrading plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

Suncor produces conventional oil, heavy crude oil, and natural gas.

Suncor previously operated and franchised retail locations under the Sunoco brand, but post-acquisition, nearly all remaining Sunoco stations were converted to Petro-Canada.

Suncor Energy owned and operated three Bombardier CRJ900ER aircraft but sold them in late 2016 and now uses Westjet to shuttle Suncor employees to the oilsands.

Suncor failed to monitor and control emissions a number of times throughout 2009 and 2010, and numerous emissions exceeded regulations.

Suncor was cited for "failure to conduct equipment inspections, train employees, and fully develop standard procedures for operating equipment".

In 2020, Suncor reached a US$9 million settlement agreement with authorities in Colorado for more than 100 air pollution violations from its Commerce City refinery.

In 2009, under the auspices of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Suncor teamed with the University of Alberta and Matrikon, an Edmonton-based software company, to develop separation-cell technology to potentially reduce the amount of bitumen entering tailings ponds by 50 per cent.

Suncor operates an ethanol facility in St Clair Township, Ontario.