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Varcoe: Cenovus CEO touts 'incredible milestone,' as company set to hit million-barrel-a-day mark

And Jon McKenzie sees the potential for more growth in Canada

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It’s a big, round production number, and one that Cenovus Energy expects to exceed for the month of July — breaching the level for the first time — by pumping out one million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day.

The Calgary-based heavyweight becomes only the second petroleum producer in the country to scale that mountain, joining Canadian Natural Resources, which exceeded 1.6 million boe per day in the first quarter and reached the million level back in 2017.

This underscores the global scale of the country’s largest oilsands........

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