Canada's province of Alberta is an oil rich land. This facility produces 250,000 barrels of oil per day. The architecture is looming on the prairie horizon. On a cool september day at sunrise clouds of steam inversion rise hundreds of feet obscuring the sun. Inside the plant works repair structures 400 feet above the ground while loaders remove left over slag from the oil recovery process. Traveling along a blackened road the byproduct sand / slag is transported to storage pits. This industrial architecture is planed for engineers and workers to refine a product that most all of us make use of.
