● OB: Over Burden
● OC: Order in Council
● OH&H: Occupational Health & Hygiene
● OMT: Operation Management Team
● OPP: Ore prep plant
● OSCA: Oil Sands Conservation Act
● OSEC: Oil Sands Environmental Coalition
● OSG: Oil Sands Group
● OSCA: Oil Sands Conservation Act
● Oil Sand: Sand containing bitumen
● Oil Sand Lease: A long-term agreement with the provincial government which permits
the leaseholder to extract bitumen, other metals and minerals contained in the oil
sands existing within the specific lease area

● P&C: Planning and Control
● PAI: Potential Acid Input
● PE: Process Engineering
● PEP: Produciton Enhancement Phase
● PERD: Panel on Energy, Research, Development
● PEW: Pond Effluent Water
● PLA: Pipeline Agreement
● PM: Project Millennium
● ppm: parts per million
● PTAC: Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada
● PV: Project Voyageur
● PDA: Principal Development Area
● PSL2: Priority Substances List
● Petroleum: A naturally occurring mixture composed predominantly of hydrocarbons in
the gaseous, liquid, or solid phase

● RA: Responsible Authority
● RAMP: Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program
● RAQCC: Regional Air Quality Control Committee
● RIF: Recordable Incident Frequency
● RIMS: Records Information Management System
● RIS: Regional Information System (for CEMA)
● RISC: Regional Infrastructure Steering Committee
● RIWG: Regional Issues Working Group
● RMWB: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
● ROR: Rate of Return
● RSDS: Regional Sustainable Dwevelopment Strategy
● RSDS: Regional Sustainable Development Strategy

● SD&S: Strategic Development and Sales
● S&S: Supply & Sales
● SC: Steering Committee
● SCO: Synthetic Crude Oil
● SCR: Steering Committee Review
● SDT: Sustainable Development Team
● SEIA: Socio-Economic Impact Assessment
● SEMI: Suncor Energy Marketing Inc.
● SEWG: Sustainable Ecosystems Working Group
● SFAS: Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
● SIMS: Suncor Inventory Management System
● SIS: Sharing In Success
● SO2: Sulphur Dioxide
● SOCO: Strategic Overriding Communication Objective
● SPOC: Simulated Processing of Ore and Coal
● SRC: Saskatchewan Research Council
● SRD: Sustainable Resource Development
● SRU: Sulphur Recovery Unit
● ST: Surge Tanks
● STBK: Steepbank Mine
● SWS: Sour Water System
● SWWG: Surface Water Working Group
● SAGD: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
● SEIA: Socio-Economic Impact Assessment
● SCFD: Standard Cubic Feet Per Day
● Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD): A recovery technique for extraction of heavy
oil or bitumen that involves drilling a pair of horizontal wells one above the other; one
well is used for steam injection and the other for production
● Synthetic Crude Oil: A mixture of hydrocarbons, similar to crude oil, derived by upgrad
ing bitumen from oil sands