Shell Canada Ltd. is exiting the oilsands in a deal with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. in an agreement that will see it ...

Shell is swapping its remaining 10 per cent stake in the Albian mines in exchange for a 10 per cent interest in the Scotford ...

Used in previous centuries for tasks ranging from waterproofing canoes to paving roads, the abundant bitumen found in Alberta's Athabasca Oil Sands may serve another purpose: securing Canada's ...

Tar-sands development is already occurring in some places in the United States — and has taken off big in Alberta, Canada (a country also pondering oil-shale development). In fact, it has become one ...

Colorado’s only oil refinery, located in Commerce City and operated by Suncor Energy, based in Alberta, Canada, accounts for about 40% of the state’s market for refined petroleum products, and ...

With so much investment at stake in Alberta’s oil-sands ... Today it costs around $10 to produce a barrel of oil from tar-sands, down 300% from three decades ago. At the forefront of this ...

Alberta projects it will collect C$20.3 billion in nonrenewable resource revenue in the current budget year — largely driven by higher royalties for oil sands bitumen — which accounts for more ...

As such, he asserted that the total recorded spill volumes from tailings ponds in Alberta’s oil sands underestimate the true rates. “The AER’s failure to gather credible and relevant ...

Canada's Industry Minister, Tony Clement, has given PetroChina the go-ahead for a 1.7 billion US dollars acquisition of two oil sand projects. The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of ...

We also know that it is inefficient to convert oil sands into usable fuel relative to other sources of oil. Yet the demand for gasoline remains high, mining the tar sands of Canada remains ...

Yet it has been steadily degraded, assaulted by deforestation and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which produces 58 percent of Canada’s oil and is the U.S.’s largest sou ...

Tar-sands development is already occurring in some places in the United States — and has taken off big in Alberta, Canada (a country also pondering oil-shale development). In fact, it has become one ...