Canada's oil sands are an important source of energy and economic activity, but the bitumen that is extracted there takes a lot of processing and cleaning before it can be transported to refineries to ...

(Bloomberg) -- Canada is staking billions of dollars of public money on an oil industry plan to transform one of the world’s dirtiest crudes into one of the cleanest. But it’s relying on a technology ...

The University of Alberta (UoA) has teamed up with Toronto-listed technology company CVW CleanTech to research the feasibility of recovering “abundant” rare earths from the waste generated by the oil ...

Breakevens may rise from ~$70 to as much as $95 per barrel by the mid-2030s as core inventory depletes. The era of falling ...

These sands are a billion-dollar industry, the newest gold rush in the world of mineral extraction and energy production. Instead of precious metals or light, sweet crude oil, the natural resource ...

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ConocoPhillips is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in retrofitting its Billings refinery to handle the heavier, dirtier Canadian crude flowing from the oil sands of northern Alberta.

Trudeau plans to invest in CCS technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of Canada's oil sands operations, but the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of this approach is unclear. The clash ...

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc may process tar-like crude from its Canadian oil sands holdings at some of its U.S. refineries, rather than at a proposed C$27-billion ($26-billion) ...

TORONTO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Suncor Energy Inc said on Monday its oil sands operation will run at reduced rates in December as it repairs a key processing unit at the sprawling northern Alberta facility ...

As a North Dakota geologist, I find the environmentalists' opposition to U.S. use of Canadian oil sands and the Keystone pipeline narrow-minded and self-serving. The public interest in ensuring ...

There are no shortage of reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline has become such a hot button issue for environmentalists. Many worry about the risks the project could pose to the Ogallala aquifer in ...