Sentences with phrase «from oil sands operations»

In the longer term, technologies on the horizon could potentially allow for significant reductions in emissions from oil sands operations.

Shell Canada has started its commercial - scale Atmospheric Fines Drying field demonstration for managing tailings from its oil sands operations.

Not exact matches

Suncor provides a good, diversified example of the sector — Suncor markets oil sands products from a variety of operations, both mining and in situ operations, and sells both diluted bitumen and synthetic products including diesel fuel.

The company also said oil sands operations production has benefited from reliable operations at its Firebag and MacKay River plants, but base plant operations dealt with a significant, weather - related outage in January that will cut first quarter output to roughly 400,000 bbls / d.

With oil sands operations currently emitting roughly 70 Mt / year, the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan leaves «room» for emissions from the oil sands to grow by 30 Mt / year.

However, given that most of Young's statements have equated the oil sands with the oil sands mining operations around Fort Mc Murray, it's worth noting that the mining (and upgrading) of bitumen contributed 32 Mt CO2 emissions to Canada's total in 2011, and that emissions from mining operations are expected to stay well below those of personal vehicles for some time.

The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other oil operations.

With Suncor is positioned nicely from a reserve standpoint, with operations in northern Alberta (which is second only to Saudi Arabia in production among oil sands regions), its valuation should rise to be more in line with peers, especially as supermajors continue to battle it out for conventional reserves.

A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil field fracking operations used around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new fracking techniques call for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a well.

Similarly, Canada has been aggressive in funding research like Mercier's and carbon capture research on oil sands operations via national funds and a $ 2 billion money pot from Alberta, said the analyst.

However, Alberta environment office show that «greenhouse gas» emissions from oil sands plummeted 38 % between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5 % of Canada's total GHG emissions — and equal to or lower than CO2 / GHG emissions from petroleum operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

Standardized values (Z scores) of (A) visible reflectance spectroscopy (VRS) chlorophyll a inferences from the five lakes proximate to major oil sands operations as indicators of lake primary production; (B) total PAH concentrations and (C) total DBT concentrations from all six study sites.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

Sources of air contaminant emissions from oil sands developments include industrial smokestacks, tailings ponds, transportation, and dust from mining operations.

That's because although a high oil price of $ 50 - $ 70 is necessary to justify investing billions into a new oil sands project, the variable costs of getting a barrel of oil from existing operations are much lower (as low as $ 10 for steamed oil and low $ 20s for mined oil).

The Quest Carbon Capture and Storage project would be the first major effort to capture and store greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's energy - intensive oil sands operations.

Heavy metal pollution is a growing concern for communities located near oil sands operations and downstream from development - causing health problems for people and wildlife.

A time - lapsed map released today by the World Resources Institute using satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial operations, mainly to extract oil from the tar sands, also referred to as the oilsands.

** By the way, a small research company has recently demonstrated a new technology to effectively remove 98.8 % of the tar / oil from tailling ponds while supply clean hot water for adjacent tar sand operations.

Smaller, oil sands - only players such as MEG Energy are more vulnerable during a downturn because they don't have the cash cushion of larger companies and don't have refining operations to offset lost revenue from oil and gas sales.

For example, Alberta's energy regulator told many oil sands operators in July that they can't divert water from the Athabasca, Peace and Wabasca rivers for use in their operations.

A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from CanaOil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canaoil piped in from Canada.

Also last month, insurer Axa said it's pulling $ 2.8 billion from coal interests, nixing investment in oil sands operations and ceasing to insure these projects.

Examples include a dispute between joint venturers over the operation of a gold mine, a dispute charging an oil and gas lessee with failure to prevent drainage from an oil and gas lease, litigation over water rights, a dispute over title to sand and gravel and a claim for trespass by the surface owner against the operator of a sand and gravel mine.