Lloydminster Asphalt Refinery

Husky has been helping pave North American roads for more than 70 years. The Lloydminster, Alberta, facility refines and markets paving and industrial asphalt products in Western Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the United States. Husky, the largest asphalt producer in Western Canada, is recognized for its wide range of quality asphalt products.

Husky’s asphalt processing and marketing activities play an important role in adding value to the Company’s heavy crude oil production.

Lloydminster Asphalt Refinery

As a result of recent debottlenecking and efficiency projects, the Lloydminster Asphalt Refinery can process approximately 28,000 barrels a day, more than 3,000 bbls/day above its original design capacity. The bulk of the refinery production is asphalt. The refinery produces more than 30 different types and grades of road asphalt, ranging from dust-abatement road oils to highway-grade asphalt.

The refinery processes heavy crude oil into other specialty products including a distillate stream used by the Lloydminster Upgrader and a condensate stream used to blend with heavy oil production. Locomotive distillate is sent to the Upgrader for further processing into low sulphur diesel.

Asphalt Marketing

Demand for Husky’s high-quality asphalt has resulted in strong sales to markets in the United States and Eastern Canada. Products have been shipped to destinations as far away as New York, Texas and Florida.

In 2008, the refinery processed an average 26,000 barrels of crude oil per day and the marketing department sold more than 4.9 million barrels of asphalt to customers across North America.

Husky plans to meet the increasing demand for performance grade asphalts, and is introducing cost savings in the production of higher-quality products.

Pounder Emulsions

Pounder Emulsions, a division of Husky, has been supplying the road construction and maintenance industry in Western Canada with economical, versatile and environmentally-compatible asphalt emulsions since 1948. With more than 30 different types of emulsified products, as well as a line of specialty asphalt products for industrial and commercial applications, Pounder Emulsions has a reputation for quality products. It has manufacturing plants in Kamloops, British Columbia; Edmonton and Lethbridge, Alberta; Lloydminster, Saskatoon and Yorkton, Saskatchewan; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Watson Lake, Yukon.

Asphalt Production

Husky has a strong customer focus, low-cost operations, environmental compatibility and high-quality innovative products. The shift in demand toward improved performance specification products is providing Husky with an advantage due to its premium-quality products and use of modification processes and additives such as polymers, which increase the life cycle of projects. Husky maintains its leadership in product development through a research alliance with the University of Calgary.

The Lloydminster Asphalt Refinery is focused on controlling unit operating costs. Measures being implemented include debottlenecking, increasing performance-grade asphalt production capacity and shipping upgrades

Asphalt Processing & Marketing Fact Sheet