Sentences with phrase «oil sands operations»

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

This study examines the impacts of oil sands operations (existing and future) limited by pipeline export capacity.

Oil sands operation in Canada is causing air pollution, according to a new study.

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

In particular, the company has big plans for oil sands operations, where volumes are likely to climb 25 % -40 %.

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.

Regardless of how it started, «the beast,» as some call it, has been a major disruptor to oil sands operations north of the fires.

While those prices aren't going to cause any existing oil sands operations to shut down, the muted outlook for commodity prices is already prompting large players to shelve plans for new projects.

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.

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.

This is despite the efficiency gains have been realized for in situ oil sands operations and bitumen upgrading facilities, driven in part by Alberta's Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.

But Suncor's bread and butter is its Fort McMurray properties in northern Alberta, where the company runs the world's largest oil sands operation.

While the wildfires still burn uncontrolled on nearly 580,000 hectares, the approximately 100,000 people displaced by the wildfires were allowed to return to Fort McMurray and the nearby oil sands operations beginning June 1.

Currently, Mark still has a good job working in administration at a Fort McMurray oil sands operation, which pays $ 90,000 a year, plus a bonus.

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.

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 snapshot of emissions intensity at 19 oil sands operations suggests that projects majority owned by Shell, Cenovus and Suncor are likely to make the top quartile of performers.

In 2012, Suncor's Alberta oil sands operations announced it would begin random - testing its workers in safety ‑ sensitive jobs and implemented a policy that specified this.

Represented a Joint Venture Owner in a domestic arbitration related to certain oil sands operations.

Oil sands operation in Canada is causing air pollution, according to a new study.

Shell Canada's greenhouse gas emissions (self - reported) from oil sands operations.

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.

Ultimately, it may not be Canada, alone, that decides what effect the Paris Agreement will have on oil sands operations, or indeed the fossil fuel sector as a whole.

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

For more than two weeks, the oil sands operations were forced to close.

«The results of this study are one piece of the puzzle to understand the overall environmental and climate impacts of the oil sands operations,» he said.

Water is allocated to oil sands operations...

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

Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the oil sands operations in Alberta.

... since the largest efficiency improvement in the oil sands operations has occurred in the processing and upgrading processes, the shift toward increased capabilities of refineries to handle oil sands bitumen, as well as the increasing share of in situ production, suggest that upgrading will be less relevant to future emissions profiles.

They will also do all they can to shut down any Pacific Gateway pipeline, any exports to Asia, and ultimately all oil sands operations.

Although Quest would rank among the half - dozen largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world, sequestering 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 per year in the deepest saline aquifer of Alberta, environmentalists point out the amount is just a small fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions from the province's oil sands operations.

The Province does have a levy on certain levels of «emissions intensity» from oil sands operations, but these taxes effectively limit the cost per tonne payable by the emitter at $ 1.80 per tonne.

I visited the oil sands operations to find out for myself what was happening there.

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.

As Leach explained to Corporate Knights, the idea would be to take all oil sands operations in the province and sort them by emissions per barrel, with steam - assisted gravity drainage and mining projects evaluated separately.