We Got into the PIT | Alberta Oil Sands

The second episode of the Canadian Series followed our team out to Alberta, Canada to meet with Morgan Construction at an oil sands mine!

When in the oil sands, they strip away topsoil and expose sand that they can extract oil from and take to a plant. A very valuable commodity in today's world. #oil #canada #construction

Equipment: Hitachi 870 Excavator, Caterpillar 777 Mining Trucks, Caterpillar 789F Haul Truck, 6015B Hydraulic Shovel

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0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Project Explained
3:00 - 10 Yard Bucket
5:49 - Reclamation Preparation
7:30 - Sand with Oil Pit
9:15 - Gunshots?
10:20 - Excavating Material
11:04 - Contractor
12:40 - CAT 789 Haul Truck
15:21 - 6015’s Lloading 789’s
16:59 - Outro

[AaronWitt]

How much are you paying for gas these days?

[radleo]

I work up here, not in the mine but over in the plant. It's nice to see you out showing the good side of what we do.

[bobsmith]

Petroleum coke can also be used to make anodes for aluminum smelting or burned as fuel. It can sometimes be used in steelmaking but you have to be careful as it can contain fairly high amounts of trace metals or other heavy impurities that were in the oil. I work for CN Rail and we haul a lot of it away from Fort McMurray, sometimes as 100+ car unit trains for export through Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

[fizz]

Really nice to see someone say positive things about what we do up here in the oil sands. Really appreciate you mentioning the reclamation and how it all gets brought back to how it was. Keep up the awesome videos!👍

[farmerbrown]

Just finished a pipeline project for one of the larger mines here in Alberta. Awesome working showing off the industry!

[quinn]

I work up here in Fort McMurray, its good to see some light being put on us in the world with guys like you! Thanks !

[carlfalt]

Thank you for showing the oilsands reclamation process because the environmentalists have vilified the industry horribly. It's important that this story be told because it a good business that provides good jobs and an essential product for North America.

[mpetrino]

Aaron hi from Calgary, Alberta thanks for coming up we love having the channel here. Huge iron moving massive amounts of whatever great stuff. Appreciate you pointing out a) that all site water is retained within the mine site extremely important high priority item b) the commitment to reclamation, leave the land better than it was before mining. The reclaimed areas become healthier denser forests supporting wild and plant life that did not exist prior to mining.
Looking forward to seeing the biggest haul trucks on the planet in your next episode.

[PHATDANx]

It’s crazy the huge scale of the mines up here, born and raised in fort mcmurray and been in the oil sands mine since I was 18

[dustinbrown]

When I first seen your video in my feed, I thought “oh great another smear piece of our energy sector”. I was dead wrong. Excellent video and very informative. I’ve work SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage) north and south of fort Mac since 2007. It an awesome place to work and the people in this region are some of the greatest people on earth bar Cheers to all my brothers and sister out there in the patch! Stay safe out there👍

[tool]

I'm an 789C/D Op. in New Zealand in a Gold mine. pretty cool trucks. always stuns me how big a 797 compare to a 789 is.

[keithbroom]

About 15 ish years ago company I work for had a water filtration system went to this area for BP oil sands. In layman's terms they would dump the oil saturated sand into a tank, mix with water, boil it, skim the oil off the top, send it through a couple cycles of this, reclaim the sand for return to the mine. The system we built was water filtration to keep reusing the water indefinitely. It was a joint project with many companies involved to build the system. Left central WI via 7 semis. Took 3 weeks to get there. 35mph max Night travel only. Due to the weight and size it was transported in February for frozen weight road limits, could not cross a bridge or fit under one. Just plain massive and heavy. I always thought they would be better off to just build it on sight but the claim was it was so cold most of the year that was not possible.

[snardvark]

We use the coke for cathodic protection semi deep wells, it makes the soil surrounding the anode much more conductive and allows the anodes to last longer.

[kencouch]

You should get ahold of South West Terminal in Saskatchewan to learn about how we get crop from field to table. I'm pretty sure they'd be more than welcoming

[JohnTheVirgin]

Thank you for talking about the equipment!!! Great description and detail! Just started my job at Caterpillar so it’s nice to learn more about the equipment my company produces lol.

[Watchingvids]

Feel like Witt is mike rowes younger brother. That’s a compliment, thanks for the awesome videos

[kxmysterious]

Aaron please touch on the heavy equipment technician role. I feel as if we need to show these diesel tech jobs that keep the biggest heavy equipment working and moving the world! As a tech from Canada we see kids from high school chasing a degree, but the trades are very vital to our economy.

[joycehofer]

Money right there, I used to work in the oilfield that life style was so addicting, the money the smell of oil the mud energy rules the world

[ajevans]

Its nice seeing some great videos made about the Canadian oil sands. I work in some of the other mines, i was hired by morgan cons. but didnt take their position, wild to think i couldve been there.

[KyleJewell]

I haul lots upto those oilsands sites. Nice to see a good video being done about them