The internal technical inquiry into the fire accident at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)’s Quality Control Laboratory and Office on August 11, which led to the death of a chief engineer ...

Greenvale Mining Ltd. (AU:GRV) has released an update. Greenvale Mining Ltd. has reported positive results from its Liquefaction Test Program 5 at the Alpha Torbanite Project, showing potential for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overheating of the sample inside an oven to complete the bitumen extract test quickly was what triggered the August 11 blaze in the quality control lab at the BBMP headquarters, sources in the civic ...

A group including three oil producers claims success in tests of a method for producing heavy oil with electrical heat from radio waves followed by solvent injection. A group including three oil ...

HOUSTON, June 27-- Ivanhoe Energy Inc. completed an Athabasca bitumen test run at its commercial demonstration plant in Bakersfield, Calif., using HTL, the company's proprietary heavy oil upgrading ...

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 ...