Sentences with phrase «oil sands extraction»

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.

And like any mining operation, oil sands extraction has a big impact on the environment:

A night view of the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta Province, Canada on October 22, 2009.

Thus, State analyzed whether KXL would have significant impacts on oil sands extraction, not whether political suppression of all oil transport would have significant impacts.

Although State considers it «unlikely» that approval or denial would significantly change oil sands extraction, the FSEIS, as a sensitivity case, estimates the KXL's incremental CO2 emissions under the assumption that all 830,000 bpd would be additional oil in the global supply.

But its supply of conventional oil is shrinking, and oil sands extraction has been growing fast in the past decade, from about 700,000 barrels per day in 2000 to 1.7 million today.

Low oil prices clearly are hurting the Alberta oil sands extraction industry.

Mature fine tailings are the big problem for oil sands extraction.

To many environmentalists — and, less predictably, to many energy developers as well — the slowdown in oil sands extraction may prove to be an unexpected blessing.

Oil sands extraction raises concerns among environmentalists because it generates more of the heat - trapping gases causing climate change than conventional oil drilling, among other things

Not exact matches

«Extraction from the Canadian oil sands continues to grow and with crude oil prices back above $ 70 (U.S.) a barrel, new greenfield projects and previously shelved expansions are once again starting to become viable,» wrote senior currency strategist Matthew Strauss.

Also the production of the oil sands results in extraction of the natural gas as well.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

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 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.

The Company's Sand segment consists of the production and sale of various grades of industrial sand primarily used in the extraction of oil and natural gas, as well as the production of building products and foundry materiSand segment consists of the production and sale of various grades of industrial sand primarily used in the extraction of oil and natural gas, as well as the production of building products and foundry materisand primarily used in the extraction of oil and natural gas, as well as the production of building products and foundry materials.

Part of the reason for the rising supply is that unconventional methods of oil extraction like tar sands and hydraulic fracturing have yielded greater oil supplies than expected.

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

Cllr Read said: «RBS is the UK's biggest sponsor of climate change and finances a whole range of environmentally devastating projects from oil extraction from the Canadian tar sands to the Kingsnorth power station.

The United States has become deeply reliant on extreme extraction from Canada's tar sands, which this year are expected to become this country's top source of imported crude, surpassing our purchases from the vast oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

His study attributes the expected growth in oil output largely to a combination of high oil prices and new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing that are opening up vast new areas and allowing extraction of «unconventional» oil such as tight oil, oil shale, tar sands and ultra-heavy oil.

Environmentalists» statements about the massive greenhouse impact from oil - sand carbon don't mention that it would take a millennium or more, even at a breath - taking rate of extraction of, say, 5 million barrels a day, for that CO2 impact to be fully realized (as if no new energy options, or methods for sopping up CO2, will arise in the future), as pointed out by Andrew Leach last June:

I'm familiar with the writings of Bill McKibben, Andrew Revkin, and Peter Ward, amongst many, many others.I firmly believe that extraction of the tar sands oil is a very bad idea.I also firmly believe that the planet could reach 1000 ppm by the year 2150.

Prior to that, Gatti directed the Get Off Oil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caOil program for Environment America, where he helped lead that organization's efforts to reduce oil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caoil consumption and oppose dirty fuels, including leading efforts to increase vehicle fuel efficiency and stop tar sands oil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean caoil extraction, and helping to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to increase access to clean cars.

Depending on their location, such offshore installations may compete with a variety of other ocean activities, such as fishing, recreational activities, sand and gravel extraction, oil and gas extraction, navigation, and aquaculture.

Petro - Canada and its partners announced the formal design basis for the Fort Hills Project (FHP)-- an integrated oil sands mining project that includes a mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta and... Read more →

That's basically the position of the State Department in its draft Environmental Impact Statement [PDF], which says Keystone is «unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands.»

A team of two researchers from Natural Resources Canada's CanmetENERGY reports on a new process for solvent extraction of bitumen from mineable Athabasca oil sands (i.e., surface mining, not in situ well - based production) in a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services company, has acquired Raytheon's technology for the extraction of oil from oil shale and oil sands.

Two regulations that could turn me to support oil sands development would be that 1) all development is done in - situ and 2) that all extraction energy is derived from renewable energy such as wind power or hydropower.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

The forecast also breaks out oil sands production by extraction method (mining and drilling) and tracks the amount of domestic upgrading.

Having explored the risks to western Canada's waterways created by the Alberta oil sands in White Water, Black Gold (a Planet in Focus selection in 2011), filmmaker David Lavallee now turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.

The FSEIS stated that KXL «is unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction in oil sands areas (based on expected oil prices, oil - sands supply costs and supply - demand scenarios».

Open Pit Mining and Forest Destruction: Approximately 20 % of Alberta's oil sands are recoverable through open - pit mining, while 80 % require in situ extraction technologies (largely because of their depth).

: Approximately 20 % of Alberta's oil sands are recoverable through open - pit mining, while 80 % require in situ extraction technologies (largely because of their depth).

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.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

The country was set to miss its Kyoto protocol target partly due to a boom in oil extraction from Alberta's tar sands.

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

The second largest Canadian company by market cap, this company mainly deals in the extraction of Canada's carbon - instesive oil sands.

(But because extraction accounts for only a small portion of oil's carbon emissions, which primarily issue from the tailpipes of vehicles, the State Department calculates that oil sands oil is only 17 percent more carbon - intensive when the entire lifecycle is considered.)