Sentences with phrase «oil sands production water»

Canadian researchers have developed a new method of removing the contaminants from polluted oil sands production water using just sunlight and nanoparticles, an approach they say will prove more effective and cheaper than existing methods.

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For this analysis to hold water, you'd have to show that the barrels which would be transported by Keystone XL are, in fact, the marginal future barrels of oil sands production.

Suncor is also looking to address the environmental issues by collaborating with General Electric (NYSE: GE) to develop technologies to will lower water usage in oil sands production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary... Read more →

Furthermore, water intensity of tar sands production is high: One barrel of tar sands oil requires the equivalent of three barrels of water.