Imperial Oil Ltd., a Canadian arm of ExxonMobil, says the long-anticipated first barrel of bitumen extracted from its open-pit mining operations at the Kearl Lake Oil Sands project will come any day.
Whether or not anyone likes the idea of ripping up the landscape of northern Alberta or poking lots of well holes into it to access oil-rich sand deposits, the world—and more specifically the U.S. and ...
As Canadian oil sands production increases, producers are adopting varied strategies in marketing the bitumen blends and synthetic crude oil (SCO). Some producers seek to minimize capital cost and ...
N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage ...
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian company has loaded a test cargo of solid bitumen onto a vessel destined for a refinery in China, the latest effort by the energy industry to avoid congested ...
Sky Quarry Inc. has submitted a Waste Management Recycling Permit application to Utah regulators for its PR Spring site, aiming to establish a facility for combined oil sands extraction and waste ...
The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...
As global reserves of conventional crude oil continue to decline, increased reliance on heavy and ultraheavy feedstocks will result in higher upgrading costs and more importantly a comparatively ...
ONE of the bleakest scenes of man-made destruction is the strip mining of oil sands in the forests of Alberta, Canada. The sand is permeated with natural bitumen, a type of petroleum with the ...
Unconventional oil refers to crude oil extracted through new methods like hydraulic fracturing and oil sands mining. Explore ...
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