Sentences with phrase «of oil sand deposits»

«When you have the development of oil sand deposits, there are vast landscapes that go on for miles that are barren and a lot of big lakes of toxic water that have been used in the process of extracting the oil,» said Jack Woodward, the lawyer representing them.

That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.

The Alberta government has leased almost 100,000 square kilometers of the oil sands deposit, so the potential certainly exists for an industrial project on the scale of England, if a little smaller.

Not exact matches

The costs to develop the oil sands, a type of unconventional petroleum deposit, are much higher that developing conventional oil deposits.

The land area of Florida (170,000 km ²) and England (130,395 km ²) are similar to the land area under which lies Alberta's oil sands deposits (140,000 km ²), so the implication is that, once these deposits are all extracted, the land area will be disturbed.

His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.

There is considerable variation in both the quality of and the ease with which a resource deposit can be extracted, so the most profitable strategy is to start with the high - quality, low - cost plays and, when these are exhausted, move on to deposits that are of lower quality and are more costly (think conventional oil fields vs. the oil sands).

Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seafloOil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil has been deposited on the seafloor.

The vast oil - sand deposits of Alberta are estimated to hold up to 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil, second only to Saudi Arabia.

In Canada, relatively shallow oil sand deposits lie beneath a 1,500 - square - mile region just north of Fort McMurray.

He and his colleagues found that over the course of four months, 11,400 tons of particulate matter — including bitumen and cancer - causing polycyclic aromatic compounds — were deposited within 30 miles of oil sands upgrading facilities belonging to two of Canada's major oil sands development companies, Suncor and Syncrude.

Bitumen is the very crude oil extracted from Canada's enormous deposits of oil sands.

Anyway its good news, add that to all of the other known deposits from oil sands to Anwar and it should alleviate some of the supply fears for much of this century.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

The greenhouse impact of the oil sands is also far less significant than some claims, particularly given the reality that oil consumption rates are what matters — not the amount of gigatons of carbon sitting in deposits of this sort in the ground.

But comparison of the Athabaska Oil Sands to an individual coal deposit isn't really fair, since there are only two major oil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespreOil Sands to an individual coal deposit isn't really fair, since there are only two major oil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespreoil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespread.

At the very least, the protests have increased awareness of the implications of developing the oil sands deposits.

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

Saskatchewan's oil sands deposit is contained within the Mannville Group of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin which was deposited across B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the US.

The boreal forests of Alberta, Canada are home to vast deposits of oil sands, also called tar sands.

An international team of researchers has shown how anaerobic microbes in oil deposits around the world — including in unconventional sources such as the oil sands — naturally break down crude oil into methane in the reservoir.

Large deposits of crude oil called tar sands are located in Alberta, Canada.

Outside the realm of conventional oil, the tar sands of Alberta and the oil shale of the Western U.S. exist in huge deposits, the exploitation of which is currently costly and accompanied by major environmental difficulties, but both definitely hold promise for a substantial increases in oil supply.

Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the extracted bitumen into usable crude oil.

It could liquefy the vast deposits of coal, oil shale and tar sands that were readily available in North America.

Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit.

Critics say such spills raise questions about the safety and viability of in situ extraction, which by 2020 is expected to account for as much as 40 per cent of Canada's oil sands production, because many of Alberta's deposits can not be mined.

Now that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much less.

Most recently, he completed a trek to the notorious Alberta tar sands, which is the second largest deposit of oil in the world.

Page 268, Section 4.3.1.4 Unconventional oil, paragraph 4: Replace the last sentence of the paragraph with «The known global tar sand deposits represent at least 375 Gt of stored carbon and will probably be added to as more are discovered.