Imperial Oil Ltd.’s Strathcona refinery in Edmonton is looking to add up to 20,000 b/d of renewable diesel to the mix as soon as 2024, enabling emissions from Canada’s transport sector to decline by as much as 3 million metric tons/year.

The ExxonMobil affiliate’s complex as designed would use locally grown plant-based feedstock and hydrogen with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the manufacturing process.

“Canada’s proposed low-carbon fuel policies incentivize the development of lower emission fuels that can make meaningful contributions to the hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy, including transportation,” said ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Co. President Ian Carr.

“The Strathcona project is an example of how well designed policies allow us to...