Sentences with phrase «of oil sands operations»

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Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.

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.

With cash operating costs of $ 34.45 per barrel for its oil sands operations, Suncor has retained a healthy cash margin through the downturn.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Oil sands players, as well as U.S. producers in North Dakota, have been clamouring for pipeline approvals, claiming that all of the political foot dragging around pipeline projects weakened pricing power and critically hampered their operations.

When asked about Canadian oil sands production, Mulva said those operations would be part of the upstream company.

Statoil, Total, Shell and ConocoPhillips have all recently sold off oil sands stakes for a total of $ 27.3 billion in cash and shares, leaving most operations concentrated in the hands of a few large Canadian firms.

It remains to be seen, therefore, what sort of carbon price signal an individual oil sands operation would be exposed to under the Alberta Plan and whether it will be sufficient to drive technological innovation in the sector.

Devon's Canadian operations are located in the Athabasca oil sands of northeast Alberta.

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.

If there's a bright spot for the province, however, it's that the ongoing disruption of Alberta oil sands production — estimated by the Conference Board of Canada to be about 1.2 million barrels a day, comprising nearly $ 1 billion in economic activity — has contributed to a rally in global oil prices that could give producers, and therefore the Alberta economy, a badly - needed lift once production is finally back on - line (assuming, of course, the fires are eventually extinguished and oil sands operations escape serious damage).

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.

Keith is one of the only financial reporters around who's actually visited Alberta's remote tar sands region to personally meet every major player in the booming Canadian oil operation.

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.

Since many energy companies have adopted the process of fracking in their oil field operations, they have come to rely on sand as an integral component to this procedure.

Business Insider reporter Robert Johnson tried to get a tour of the Alberta tar, err, oil sands operations, but was denied.

Alberta oil sands operations extract around 95 % of Canada's oil.

The first item should be a ban on any imports of Canadian tar sand oil to the U.S., plus pressure on Canada to shut down those operations.

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.

There are several examples of this in operations in the oil sands.

Calgary - based Suncor Energy, the No. 2 oil - sands producer in the world, announced that it has sold its billionth barrel of oil sands crude since it began operations in 1967.

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).

** 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.

After 41 years of oil sands mining operations in northern Alberta only 0.2 % or one square kilometer of disturbed land is certified as reclaimed.

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.

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And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.

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.

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