Several waterless extraction methods being piloted that use less energy, produce fewer emissions EDMONTON—Oilsands producers have been under siege for years, with environmentalists, politicians and ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

InLine Dewatering Ltd.'s research looking to reduce water, energy use during bitumen extraction in oilsands EDMONTON—The federal government is investing $1 million in an Alberta-based project that ...

In 2016 the government turned its attention to bitumen – also known as asphalt, which is used in road-surfacing – placing the country’s large standalone deposits of the hydrocarbon mixture at the ...

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 ...

A court injunction has been filed to force a controversial heavy oil extraction facility in the Peace Country to shut down. As CBC News first reported, several families in the area have complained ...

Representatives of Imperial Oil came to Missoula that Nov. 9 to unveil plans for a yearlong transportation project set to start the following fall. Mammoet, a Dutch transport company, would move more ...

US Oil Sands (CVE:USO) had a down day on Tuesday dropping 7% ahead of announcing approval of a US Patent application for its bitumen extraction process. The $110 million company is showing losses for ...

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here. Nikiforuk's ...