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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a YouTube video posted Monday, Leonardo DiCaprio challenged Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper to the Ice Bucket Challenge. While helping to ...

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 ...

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We should be finding the most lucrative markets for our bitumen and charging an appropriate rate to extractors, writes Andrew Leach Yes, of course—mostly. Value-added in the strict economic sense ...