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 ...

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 ...

Petro-Canada expects the first phase of the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta to have a capital cost of $14.1 billion (Can.) and produce through mining 160,000 b/d of bitumen, which then the ...