Sentences with phrase «oil sands resources»

Technology has brought about tight oil (shale oil), deep water and oil sands resources.

It is, however, a fact that coal is at least on a par with the oil sands resources as far as detriment to the CO2 environment, and there is vast and growing rate of usage of this.

Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

Indeed, just ask the oil industry itself how important new pipeline connections are to not only increasing production, but also the very commercial viability of the oil sands resource.

In a submission to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Washington - based American Petroleum Institute argues that the $ 7 - billion (U.S.) pipeline would be a major boost to job creation, and warned that the U.S. can not take for granted its access to the vast oil sands resource in Canada.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists oppose the project because it will encourage the development of Canada's oil sands, a type of oil resource that requires more energy to tap than conventional reserves.

Taken to its natural conclusion, this logic dictates that we shut down the oil sands, abandon our resource wealth, have high and variable inflation, run large fiscal deficits and diminish our financial sector.

Since then, Alberta has only become even more dependent on resource royalties, as production from the oil sands continued to march higher.

A troubling incident unfolded over the last month at a thermal oil sands play operated by Canadian Natural Resources.

Royal Dutch Shell inked a deal with Canadian Natural Resources for its Canadian oil sands interest.

The oil sands, like any oil or gas resource, are being developed in response to continued and growing demand for oil and related products.

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.

Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B - TSX; TECK - NYSE] and Suncor Energy Inc. [SU - TSX] are taking a bigger stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta, Teck said in a progress update....

National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.

In January, N. Murray Edwards, chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., a major oil - sands player, and key Conservative insiders Rod Love, Morten Paulsen and Allan Hallman, organized a Clark fundraiser in Calgary.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

There is considerable variation in both the quality of and the ease with which a resource deposit can be extracted, so the most profitable strategy is to start with the high - quality, low - cost plays and, when these are exhausted, move on to deposits that are of lower quality and are more costly (think conventional oil fields vs. the oil sands).

Any natural resources like oil, gas, metals, salt, even geothermal activity etc. (with the exception of sand, gravel, clay) do not belong the owner, but are considered ownerless until mined which needs a separate admission from the government (Some specific natural resources can even be only mined by the goverment which conveniently can transfer the rights).

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

Different mixed media painting techniques, using glue, string, card, wax, paper to manipulate and to create texture with acrylic paint Looking at famous artists like Jackson Pollock, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, John Hoyland and Howard Hodgkin Resources: Acrylic paint, Sponges, sticks, large and small paintbrushes, credit card, string, glue, Punchinella, kebab sticks batik wax, sand, tissue paper, scrap paper and glue guns, Creating a number of different textures with acrylic paint and see what other mixed media layering one can achieve with chalk and oil pastel as well to layer over the acrylic paint.

Drenching sand dunes with oil stops their migration, but this approach is quite destructive to the dunes» animal habitats and uses a valuable resource.

The geological resources of Belize include oil, clays, barite, sand and gravel, granite, gypsum, quartz sand, dolomite and limestone.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

However, greatly increased future production of heavy oil, tar / oil sands and bitumen in Canada and other countries with huge anounts of these carbon intensive fuel resources is now in full swing.

A more likely scenario if we do nothing is that emissions will continue at a rapid pace as oil from sand and shale plus coal substantially replace oil and natural gas, with the consequence that we will have dug ourselves into a deeper hole in terms of having sufficient resources to reduce emissions sufficiently without major disruption to our society.

The oil sands in particular are a massive transfer of shared resources to private companies.

It is actually a major assumption of yours that developing oil sands to the tune of 4 or 5 million barrels per day implies that virtually the entire resource will be developed in a ~ 100 year time frame.

[Nov. 18, 11:37 p.m. Updated Vaclav Smil, the Canadian resource and risk analyst, has written a potent critique of Obama's move, noting, among other things, «If there would be no oil - sand oil produced in Alberta to feed the XL pipeline and then refined in the United States and the products burned in American vehicles, then the Chinese would generate an additional mass of CO2 equivalent to that prevented burden in less than two weeks.»]

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.

They're also at work in B.C. right now, where lobbyists funded by foreign «radicals,» as Canada's natural resource minister calls them, are working to obstruct and sabotage the hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline that would open up oil sands exports to a world beyond the United States.

Coal, tar sands and Arctic oil must be the first resources left untouched in a rapidly warming world.

Canada's oil sands (and the Keystone Pipeline that will bring their petroleum to the United States) must be evaluated on environmental and ethical grounds that compare them to real world alternatives to them — not to some utopian energy resource that exists only in the minds of idealists, ideologues and special interest environmental pressure groups.

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.

Murray Edwards, the billionaire vice-chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., said that with oil sands production expected to expand from 1.5 million barrels a day to as much as 4 million barrels in the next 25 years, Alberta oil is much more likely to flow into the U.S. - even if overall U.S. crude demand continues to stagnate.

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 →

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.

With most of the world's highest quality resources already exhausted, companies are turning to formerly undesirable alternatives such as tar sands oil, which come with higher energetic price tags yet lower returns.

Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration.

Royal Dutch Shell plc announced the completion of two previously announced agreements by Shell Canada Energy, Shell Canada Limited and Shell Canada Resources (Shell) that will see Shell sell all its in - situ and undeveloped oil sands interests in Canada and reduce its share in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP)... Read moroil sands interests in Canada and reduce its share in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP)... Read morOil Sands Project (AOSP)... Read more →

Canadian crude oil production comprises western Canadian, which includes crude oil from the oil sands and conventional resources, as well as offshore production from the east coast of Canada.

News Articles Featured Nathan Vanderklippe Globe and Mail March 20, 2013 Read the full article on the originating site Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver this week told a Vancouver audience that British Columbians have nothing to fear from Pacific exports of Canadian oil sands crude.

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.

Susan Casey - Lefkowitz, an oil sands specialist who directs the Natural Resources Defense Council's international program, has no quibble with Iallonardo's conclusions.

Canada — in the broadest collective sense, in whatever way we are all one — is as fully dug in on the production of oil sands crude as it has been in any of its resource projects.

«It's bad for oil companies and the profit they were expecting from those projects, but from a climate perspective, it's tremendous,» said Danielle Droitsch, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of many environmental groups that oppose extracting the heavy oil sands crude.

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.

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil's carbon footprint.

In this report the State Department concluded that by tapping into the oil sands, KXL would produce more greenhouse gases, but that blocking the project would not prevent development of those resources.