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SUNCOR-WIDE GHG EMISSIONS INTENSITY
ACTUAL (1990 – 2013) AND ESTIMATES (2014 – 2018) (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

tonnes CO2e/cubic metres of oil equivalent (m3OE)

1990 2000 2008 2009 2010 2011
2012
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2013
0.60

0.40

0.20

0.0

0.413
Actual and estimated 0.570 0.402
0.438 0.370 0.371
0.375
0.367 0.364
0.356 0.355 0.350
0.412
tonnes CO2e/cubic metres
of oil equivalent (m3OE)
Actual
Estimated

1.196 0.817 0.667 0.569 0.587 0.510 0.548 0.530 0.524 Oil Sands
0.503 0.556 0.542 0.561

– – – – – – –0.5070.324
FortHills
– –
– –
– –
0.474 0.458 0.455 0.502 In Situ
0.535 0.540 0.473 0.475 0.461 0.448 0.471

0.137 0.163 0.174 0.170 Exploration & Production 0.157 0.154 0.201 0.236 0.199 0.207 0.236
0.225 0.193 0.214 0.222 0.208 0.202 Refining & Marketing 0.199 0.200 0.214 0.208 0.203 0.197 0.196

– –
0.784 0.788 0.712
0.684
Renewable Energy
0.662 0.668
0.662 0.662
0.629 0.595
0.595

(1) Estimates are based on current production forecasts and methodologies. The tables contain forward-looking estimates and users of this information are cautioned that the actual GHG
emissions and emission intensity may vary materially from the estimates contained in the table.
(2) Data from 1990 and 2000 do not include Suncor’s U.S. operations, and only include business areas in operation during these years. These data points have been provided for historical
comparability, consistent with previous sustainability reports.
(3) Data here includes both direct and indirect CO2e emissions, whereas the data included in the Alberta SGER reports and other regulatory reports are direct emissions only. No credit is taken for
GHG reductions due to cogen credits or purchased offsets. Emissions have been calculated using facility-speciic methodologies; various reference methodologies accepted by jurisdictions where each facility is required to report GHG emissions. Where a jurisdiction has a prescribed methodology, it is followed and if none exists, the most applicable and accurate methods available are
used to quantify each emission source. Beginning with 2013 data, the latest global warming potentials issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their 2007 or Fourth Assessment
report have been used to calculate CO2e. Historical data has not been updated to relect this change as it does not impact corporate-wide emissions materially.
(4) Data and estimates have changed from previous years’ reports due to Oil Sands methodology changes that relect the inclusion of biomass, a methodology change in the calculation of fugitive
emissions using lux chamber data, and revisions to emissions factors and calculations based upon AESRD’s request. These changes are also consistent with the methodology used for SGER Bill
3 reporting. Also, previous years’ emission updated numbers relect changes including classifying purchased hydrogen emissions at Reining & Marketing facilities as an indirect scope 3 instead
of an indirect scope 2, and a revised indirect scope 2 methodology for MacKay River.
(5) Data for 2009 and future years include the full-year emissions for all Petro-Canada operated properties acquired in the 2009 merger, even though the merger did not close until Aug. 1, 2009. This is to allow for a consistent comparison to past and future years.

(For certain business units, combined Suncor / Petro-Canada data is provided for some years prior to 2009 but this is not relected in the Suncor-wide rollup reported here.)
(6) The Suncor-wide emissions intensity uses Net Production, which is the sum of Net Facility Production minus all internal intra- and inter-BU product transfers, to remove any double counting. The sum of the BU intensities will therefore not equal the Suncor-wide intensity.
(7) Reining&MarketingemissionsareinclusiveofemissionsfromthepipelinefromOilSandstotheEdmontonreinery,whichisincludedinthePipelinesentitywithinR&M.Theemissiontotal
for this source for 2013 was 51,304 tonnes COe.
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Deinitions:
Emission intensity: Ratio that expresses GHG emissions per unit of physical activity or unit of economic value
(e.g., here it is total tonnes of CO2e emissions per unit of net processed volume in cubic metres).