It can be termed as the building block of the pavements without which all the pavement materials would behave independently and thus will be deemed useless. Almost ninety percent of bitumen is used in ...

Although the history of bitumen dates back to the third millennium BC, only little is known about its surface structure. Researchers are now shedding light on the nature of the bitumen surface using ...

The extracted bitumen has the consistency of peanut butter and requires extra processing before it can be delivered to a refinery. There are two ways to process the bitumen. Some tar sands producers ...

Over the past decade, production of “unconventional” oil in North America has surged as technological improvements and cost reductions have made these crudes competitive in the North American market.

A handful of Canadian oil sands. Credit: istockphoto. The Canadian crude oil that would flow through the Keystone XL pipeline is either the lynchpin of U.S. energy security or the path to certain ...

Increased pipeline movement of raw bitumen production from Canada to the US could mitigate North America's vulnerability to crude supply disruptions and require expansion of existing pipelines or ...

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Exploitation of Ondo State’s bitumen deposit has always been a major issue during governorship elections. The campaign for the forthcoming poll in the key Southwest state, which has the second-largest ...