Sentences with phrase «oil sands processing»

The International Energy Agency (IEA) today welcomed the launch of the world's first large - scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project that will reduce emissions from oil sands processing.

Baytex has chosen not to expend the money installing these systems on the 86 super-heated oil sands processing tanks in the area despite reporting a record 200 % rate of return on investment.

Tailings A watery by - product of oil sands processing, containing traces of oil and a host of other pollutants.

Job creation is, however, projected to slow over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and slower growth in international demand for oil products.

Job creation is projected to slow down over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and a slower growth in international demand for oil products, but the growing demand for base metals is expected to buoy employment opportunities.

and «Yellowstone Spill Shadows Efforts on the Keystone XL») The Quest project is aimed at capturing the emissions that result from an intermediate step of the oil sands process, called upgrading.

Not exact matches

Last March, Royal Dutch Shell said it was selling most of its stake in Canada's oil sands, a vast project that has extracted millions of barrels of sticky, gooey hydrocarbons from the ground in a process that resembles mining more than drilling.

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

The Crown corporation's original government funding of $ 100 - million increased over time to $ 1 - billion, with the objective of developing technologies and processes that would get the private sector back working on the 90 per cent of the oil sands that were too deep to be surface mined.

The refinery will feature state - of - the - art design, specifically for processing Alberta oil sands heavy crude oil, and engineered to be the cleanest upgrading and refining site in the world.

The process of extracting oil from oil sands is not a clean one; it has a significant impact on land, air, and water.

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.

TransCanada has said its shippers remain committed to the project, which would deliver diluted bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast that are specifically equipped to process heavy crude.

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.

In a food processor process together the fresh bread crumbs, cheese, parsley and olive oil until a coarse sand texture.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

The process of making liquid fuel from the oil sands requires steam injection and and refining, all of which requires energy.

The plant flecks fly through the tube where ordinary sand heated to 500 degrees Celsius flashes them to an oil vapor in less than 800 milliseconds in a process called pyrolysis.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

Two tons of sand must be processed to yield a single barrel of oil, producing twice as much greenhouse - gas emissions as the processing of conventional crude.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

Its portfolio of assets includes conventional oil, oil sands, heavy oil, and natural gas pipelines, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, and midstream storage facilities, and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.

The real crux of the matter is whether we are going to go to clean energy and conservation, or whether we are going to go to oil shale, tar sands, and coal - to - liquid, and in the process wreck the planet.

Around two tons of tar sand must be processed to produce one barrel of heavy bitumen - based crude oil.

One could also keep in mind the vast areas of Alberta that are churned up by the oil sands mining process itself.

The Surfrider Foundation is using this year's Hands Across The Sand event to raise awareness on «Three Essential Truths» about new offshore drilling: it will not reduce the price at the pump; it will not eliminate America's reliance on foreign oil; and it is an inherently risky activity that causes significant impacts to the environment through every stage of the drilling process.

We know which oil refineries process tar sands, and ForestEthics has already convinced 19 companies to stop buying from them.

Canadian producers are now locked into U.S. Midwest and Ontario markets, which have limited capacity to process additional volumes of oil sands bitumen.

Expect more oil sands projects to capture and reuse waste heat and embrace alternative processes that consume less energy.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail editorial board, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the Keystone XL line is needed to connect the Alberta oil sands with refiners who have invested billions of dollar to upgrade their plants so that they can process heavy grades of crude.

In fact, even to reach that level would require exploiting resources like tar sands and oil shale that are not only environmentally problematic but also expensive to process.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

When the boundary for measuring GHG emissions is placed around crude production and processing facilities, for fuels produced solely from Canadian oil sands the average well - to - wheels (WTW) life - cycle GHG emissions... Read more →

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.

The carbon capture process at the Scotford oil sands upgrader will capture about 35 % of emissions.

The multi-billion dollar refinery, which processes tar sands imported from Alberta, Canada, into crude oil, is located in Southwest Detroit bordering the neighboring communities of River Rouge, and Melvindale.

Suncor, which primarily uses mining but is exploring in - situ methods for processing oil sand bitumen... Read more →

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.

Overview of oil sands production (mining) process.

All the people who are active against the additional carbon release from the processing of oil sands, should be required to drive their propane or CNG fueled hydraulic hybrid automobiles at the most efficient speed for the miles traveled and to live in the smallest houses needed for shelter and eat the simplest food and never take aircraft trips. . .

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.

A relatively new process, fracking involves using pressure to create cracks in porous rocks, and injecting water, sand, and chemicals to keep those cracks open and allow oil to flow.

In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

For example, suggestions have arisen in Congress for the U.S. to impose an export ban on Keystone XL tar sands oil and tighten existing controls in the natural gas export permitting process.

One of the previous Healing Walks toured Martinez, California (pictured above and below), home to two refineries that process oil and tar sands crude — and also home to a strong resistance among residents who are fighting for the health of their community.

The Keystone XL pipeline is designed to move 830,000 barrels a day of oil sands from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast where many refineries are located that are configured to process heavy oil.

At the same time, the budget bill came freighted with legislation intended to «streamline» environmental review processes in the hope of fast - tracking oil pipelines and other large energy infrastructure projects, and it has handed the Canada Revenue Agency $ 7 million to intensify its scrutiny of environmental charities — especially the ones labelled «foreign radicals» by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in a fiery Globe and Mail op - ed calling for approval of Enbridge's $ 5 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the coast of northern B.C.