BENIN—THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has urged the Federal Government to halt the planned commencement of bitumen exploitation in the bitumen belt stretching ...

In 2016 the government turned its attention to bitumen – also known as asphalt, which is used in road-surfacing – placing the country’s large standalone deposits of the hydrocarbon mixture at the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a YouTube video posted Monday, Leonardo DiCaprio challenged Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper to the Ice Bucket Challenge. While helping to ...

N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

InLine Dewatering Ltd.'s research looking to reduce water, energy use during bitumen extraction in oilsands EDMONTON—The federal government is investing $1 million in an Alberta-based project that ...

A court injunction has been filed to force a controversial heavy oil extraction facility in the Peace Country to shut down. As CBC News first reported, several families in the area have complained ...

When a group of Harris Corp. employees in Florida began working to develop new technologies for the oil sands industry, they got off to a shaky start. In their first brainstorming session, they ...

EDMONTON, Alberta, July 26 (UPI) -- A series of leaks at a Canadian oil company's oil sands operation has called into question the safety of bitumen extracting methods. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

What are your thoughts on U.S. Oil Sands? I can see from the stock price that the market is not warm to it, but the company claims to have an extraction technology using oranges of all things that ...