But while the fumes from the bitumen were at dangerous levels, the water stored in the in the bitumen-lined bottles did not contain toxic amounts.
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Production of low-grade bitumen crude jumped 21% to 21.3149,288 barrels per day (bpd) in the second quarter, while realized price for bitumen rose 31.5% to average C$62.23 per barrel.
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Production of low-grade bitumen crude jumped 36.4% to 97,288 barrels per day (bpd) in the second quarter, while realized price for bitumen rose 31.5% to average C$62.23 per barrel.
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Exporting raw bitumen also would ship away potential refinery jobs.
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In situ mining produced just over half of all the bitumen recovered in Alberta in 2014, and the Alberta Energy Regulator expects the method to account for 60 percent of bitumen production by 2024.
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"Bitumen or Bust" is reprinted with permission from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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ConocoPhillips produces crude oil, natural gas, liquid natural gas, and bitumen.
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Bitumen is also one of the dirtiest fuels in the world.
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Thus softened, the bitumen seeps into incipient cracks, sealing them up.
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This is then added to bitumen, resulting in a strong bond.
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His firm processes bitumen into higher-quality crude at the wellhead.
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The leak of bitumen emulsion, a mixture of bitumen, water and sand, affected an area of about 21,900 square meters (13,730 square feet) about 36 km (22 miles) south of the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray.
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Swiss engineer happened to observe carts carrying rock bitumen lose some of
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However, bitumen production fell 2.1 percent to 13,780 barrels per day (bpd).
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The smoke was from the burning bitumen, which had covered the roof.
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Release agent (oil by weight and oil extracted from bitumen ≥70%). 3.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly identified bitumen as asphalt.
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Companies are unsure what the exact effect will be on carefully-engineered bitumen reservoirs, which are produced by injecting steam underground through well bores to heat and pressurize tarry bitumen so it can flow through pipelines to the surface.
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His team discovered that adding magnetic nanoparticles such as as iron oxide to bitumen—which, when combined with mineral stones forms asphalt—and then using a magnetic field to "excite" the particles would cause the bitumen to warm up.
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These sands contain bitumen, a gooey petroleum that can be extracted for fuel.
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Coker units convert mined bitumen from the oil sands into synthetic crude oil.
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Long Lake usually produces around 40,000 bpd of undiluted bitumen, one source said.
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It's a mixture of bitumen and sand about as gooey as peanut butter.
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These are made from an aggregate of materials bound together by sticky bitumen.
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Bitumen production rose marginally to 77,245 barrels per day (bpd) from 76,13 bpd.
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The value of exports of crude oil and crude bitumen surged 10.5 percent.
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Current in situ bitumen supply is estimated at between 22.5 to 23 million bpd; non-upgraded bitumen supply is expected to rise by 26,000 bpd in 2016 and by another 110,000 bpd in 2017, RBC Capital Markets said earlier this year.
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The first was lined with soft bitumen known as "malak," which is known to wash ashore after seeping up from the ocean floor, and the second bottle was lined with hard bitumen called "woqo," which is found in oily land deposits.
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Bitumen is a low-grade crude oil which is composed of complex, heavy hydrocarbons.
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The pipeline will augment transport of diluted bitumen from Alberta to BC for export.
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They pump steam underground through long pipes, which separates bitumen from its surrounding soil.
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But as the new research shows, certain declines in the health of these ancient people can likely be traced back to the introduction of bitumen-lined water bottles at least 5,000 years ago, and bitumen-sealed plank canoes around 2,000 years ago.
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Once the sand is mined, it's rinsed with hot water to separate out the bitumen.
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But using such plastic as a replacement for bitumen is cost-effective, claims Mr McCartney.
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Also near the path: major oil sands used to process bitumen, CNN partner CBC reported.
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It does not process bitumen, the heavy, tar-like substance extracted from Canada's oil sands.
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Here's some particularly insane footage of an IED erupting through a bitumen road in Iraq.
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Diluent is any ultra-light hydrocarbon mixed with viscous bitumen to enable it to flow.
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But the bitumen needs to be tempered with polymers to keep it durable and flexible.
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This is done by heating the raw oil, called bitumen, in a process called coking.
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The additive would replace a proportion of the bitumen, so there are savings to be made.
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A number of roads in India are also made by mixing chopped-up plastic into bitumen.
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In addition, Basra Heavy is also good for producing bitumen to be used for road construction.
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There, using huge amounts of hot water, the bitumen is separated from the sand and clay.
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The site can produce up to 360,000 barrels per day, upgrading thick bitumen to light oil.
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Another 26.8,215.8 cubic metres is dedicated to store gasoline and the remaining for bitumen and fuel oil.
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Just as plastic is derived from petrochemicals, bitumen is produced as a by-product of refining oil.
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As an example, he says that a tonne of bitumen might cost around £400 ($521) in Britain.
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Revenue nearly doubled to C$560 million, with bitumen production rising marginally to 77,245 barrels per day.
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A viscous type of oil called diluted bitumen, or tar sands oil, flows through the Keystone Pipeline.
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For instance, Exxon had to write off its entire 3.5 billion-barrel bitumen project in Alberta, Canada.
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The study takes a close look at what happens to the tarlike bitumen of the oil sands.
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Cleaning up the wetlands could involved digging them up to get at the bitumen that's sunk in.
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SAGD drilling lets oil extractors get at the 113% of the bitumen that's too deep to mine.
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MEG, whose key operations are in the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, said bitumen production fell to 87,582 barrels per day (bpd) in the fourth quarter from 90,228 bpd a year earlier, while average realized prices for bitumen fell to C$13.90 per barrel from C$48.30.
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The flat bitumen roof of the arrivals hall had been patched up, but scorch marks could be seen.
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"We are maximising bitumen production and cutting fuel oil so for that we need heavy oil," he said.
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An alternative method of using recycled plastic is to mix the material into hot bitumen when making asphalt.
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Exports of energy products, including crude oil and crude bitumen, declined due to May wildfires in northern Alberta.
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Dermal exposure could have occurred when bitumen was applied directly to the body for ritual or medicinal purposes.
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If the bitumen in its wells has solidified, restarting the operation will be a long and costly process.
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But in addition to being a fossil fuel, bitumen is difficult to extract and energy-intensive to process.
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It takes months of pumping steam into underground reservoirs before bitumen starts to flow from the oil sands.
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If the fire nevertheless finds a way to enter the open pit mines where gigantic excavators scoop up tar like bitumen and place it in similarly oversize dump trucks, Mr. Morrison said that the province's experience during a 2011 fire suggested that the oil-bearing bitumen is unlikely to ignite.
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They're pitch black—made by indigenous tribes who coated large, woven bulbs with a tar-like substance called bitumen.
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At present 5-10% of the bitumen is replaced by the additives, but this could be increased to 25%.
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To extract bitumen from the sands, processors effectively melt the earth with boiling water and chemicals, creating toxic residues.
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Overall exports were lifted by a 7.2 increase for energy products as prices for crude oil and bitumen rose.
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The technology needed to pump high-pressure steam to unlock bitumen deposits makes production costs expensive for thermal operators.
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In situ extraction actually refers to any method that pulls up bitumen without digging up the earth around it.
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In 2010, that bitumen-natural gas mixture spilled from a Canadian-owned pipeline into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
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The bitumen sank to the bottom of the river, poisoning 40 miles of water and 4,435 acres of coastline.
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Each barrel of bitumen (that's the technical term for the tar sand) gets soaked in 2.4 barrels of water.
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The line carries diluted bitumen, a heavy, tar-like substance that requires adding water to separate it from the ground.
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They replace six percent of the asphalt's bitumen binder, so every ton of asphalt contains roughly 118 to 128 bottles.
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Study co-author Kevin Smith applying the melted bitumen to the bottle, with the air testing equipment next to him.
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The heavy bitumen in the oil sands themselves is not flammable, but the facilities and people inside are at risk.
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By comparison, the stock of established crude bitumen reserves was just over C$300 billion in 2017, the agency said.
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MEG's quarterly revenue also topped analysts' estimates as the average realized price for bitumen jumped 56 percent in the quarter.
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Although the exact filling composition is hard to discern now, the researchers found traces of bitumen, vegetable fibers and hair.
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"It helps create value for the bitumen," Horn said, referring to the tarry, semi-solid form of Alberta's heavy crude.
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Partial upgrading reduces the thickness of oil sands bitumen, allowing it to flow through pipelines without having to be diluted.
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Solid bitumen is also considered less hazardous than liquid crude because it is not combustible and would float on water.
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Bitumen extracted from the oil sands has to be diluted with ultra-light hydrocarbons so it can flow through pipelines.
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SAGD opens up far more bitumen to extraction than even mining, meaning more carbon-emitting fossil fuel in the pipeline.
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In order to find out if the level of exposure was unsafe (according to modern dose limits established by the EPA), we had to replicate processes by which bitumen was used—in this case, the manufacture and use of bitumen-coated water bottles—and test the resulting PAH concentrations in the air, water, and food.
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Varo produces and supplies oil products for cooking, the plastics industry, transport, and bitumen for road construction in north-west Europe.
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Celaya connected to the American painter on several fronts, including their shared use of tar (bitumen) in place of black paint.
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Its technical manager Wynand Nortje says its method of melting the plastic into the bitumen modifier minimizes the risk of microplastics.
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WCS is trading at about $153 to $38 a barrel, he said, and bitumen is currently at about $33.50 a barrel.
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The pipe starts in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, home to some of the richest bitumen deposits in the world.
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The bitumen road out of town soon turns to dirt, and farmhouses on big wheat properties are dotted every several miles.
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Bora, which operates a 140,000 barrels per day refinery and is also a bitumen producer, was among the first to respond.
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China had planned to impose consumption taxes on oil by-products such as mixed aromatics, light cycle oil and bitumen blend.
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The impending squeeze is reminiscent of 2013, when Alberta's government was forced to borrow billions to cover a drop in revenue due to the so-called "bitumen bubble," a term coined as a result of the province's inability to move oil-sands derived bitumen to export, although WCS prices hovered closer to $40 a barrel discount then.
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Raw materials like bitumen, once purchased through resellers in Dubai, now arrive directly, and at a lower cost, says one government official.
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Exports slowed due to lower shipment of non-energy goods, which offset growth in crude and bitumen exports, as well as services.
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"The pipes will continue to need condensate for the bitumen," said Alan Boras, director of communications at condensate producer Seven Generations Energy.
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The deal would also eliminate the only competitor to PKN in bitumen supply in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia.
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Crude oil and bitumen export prices plunged 34.3 percent, as transportation bottlenecks out of Canada's energy heartland sent Canadian crude prices tumbling.
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Oil sands bitumen is extracted through mining or underground reservoir steaming projects that last for decades but require high upfront capital investment.
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In his experiments, Dr Jeoffroy found that it takes just a few seconds to heat pieces of nanoparticle-containing bitumen this way.
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Upgrading reduces the thickness of bitumen so it does not require blending with lighter oil to move in pipelines, freeing up space.
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"If the plastic is permanently sandwiched between the stone and bitumen, there's no way it will ever see the environment," says Patel.
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Other risks include sand collapsing into the reservoir, or engineers struggling to find the right steam pressure needed to optimize bitumen production.
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His performance, "Underneath the Bitumen The Artist," is part of Dark Mofo, an annual arts festival in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania.
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But "Underneath the Bitumen The Artist," his third and final piece for the annual Tasmanian festival Dark Mofo, is his most provocative.
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The oil sands are a watery mixture of sand and clay soaked with a dense, viscous form of petroleum known as bitumen.
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Production of bitumen crude, which is a low-grade oil, rose to 97,288 barrels per day (bpd) from 71,325 bpd a year earlier.
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The plants where the bitumen is separated from sand and then converted into a synthetic crude oil present a potentially greater fire risk.
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Tar sands oil is a mixture of clay, water, and a thick, heavy oil called bitumen, the sticky stuff that binds asphalt together.
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Bitumen is a mined slurry of crude oil, sand, and clay, but also includes diluting materials to make it flow efficiently through pipelines.
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Extracting oil from the tarlike bitumen in the oil sands burns up a lot of fuel and generates substantial quantities of greenhouse gases.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) said it started bitumen production from the Hangingstone oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada, last Thursday.
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In fact, eighty percent of the estimated bitumen reserves in Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta are only reachable with in situ methods.
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Carrying crude and oil sands bitumen from Alberta down to the coast of British Columbia, the pipeline currently moves some 211,250 barrels per day.
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Promising contenders include using bitumen to make carbon fibres for high-tech composites, vanadium for batteries and steel, and high-grade asphalt for roads.
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But the presence of bitumen, a sort of natural tar and antiseptic, indicated to the scientists that the gunk stuffing might have been medicinal.
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Cenovus Energy and MEG Energy are testing out enhancing production by adding solvents to the steam pumped into underground reservoirs to melt sticky bitumen.
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When tar sands oil spills, the diluent evaporates pretty quickly — causing toxic, short-term air pollution — and leaves the heavy bitumen behind, which sinks.
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But attempts to convert its deposits of tarlike bitumen into fuel go back decades, and Fort McMurray's fortunes have risen and fallen with them.
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The commitments include 50,000 bpd from the Alberta provincial government, which receives some oil and gas royalties from producers in the form of bitumen.
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The island - which used to be reachable by a bitumen road on a causeway - is about an hour by boat from Bangladesh's Teknaf peninsula.
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Oh, I just love a nice mug of bitumen, twigs, axle grease, and a heathy dollop of white emulsion first thing in the morning.
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The Melbourne launch of Reprisal is this Saturday at Vanity Lair (30 Hope street, Brunswick) with supports from V (berlin), Bitumen and Waterfall Person.
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That is more than three times as much as the 5003m tonnes of bitumen produced annually, most of which goes into building the world's roads.
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Several upgrader units were shut or running at reduced rates, while mining and extraction were being paced to balance lower bitumen demand, the company said.
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About 476 million bpd of synthetic crude production and 567 million bpd of bitumen production are offline due to the fire, Cheng wrote on Friday.
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The southern plants, for the most part, bring the tarlike bitumen of the oil sands to the surface by injecting vast quantities of steam underground.
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I'm on the highway for a while, and when I get off, I reach a desolate stretch of dusty bitumen that leads to the river.
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You've said "Underneath the Bitumen" was inspired by Kazimir Malovich's "Black Square," a 1915 painting that has been called the starting point of abstract art.
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Earlier on Wednesday Cenovus reported a first quarter loss and said bitumen realizations from its oil sands projects took a hit from high condensate prices.
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The heat was strong enough to melt the bitumen on a 10-km (6-mile) stretch of freeway in Victoria, national broadcaster ABC News reported.
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The Edmonton-area plant would turn 77,500 barrels per day (bpd) of diluted bitumen into medium crude oil and low-sulfur diesel, starting in 2022.
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If technology improves to the point where companies can extract every drop of oil bound up in bitumen, that total would increase to 240 billion.
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A new study, published today in the journal Environmental Health, measured the toxicity of making plastic from oily bitumen, and of storing liquid in the bottles.
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Several upgrader units were shut down or running at reduced rates, while mining and extraction were being paced to balance lower bitumen demand, the company said.
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Yarrabah, which is wedged between mountainous rain forest and the Coral Sea, first got electricity in the 1960s, followed by its first bitumen road, residents say.
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MEG, which extracts crude from oil sands in the Athabasca region, said bitumen production fell 210 percent to 2546,008 barrels per day in the latest quarter.
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"Look up the Energy East Line," she said, referring to a pipeline that would have delivered diluted bitumen from the Northwestern United States to eastern Canada.
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The company sold its bitumen from oil sands for an average price of C$22.82 per barrel, compared with C$52.37 per barrel a year earlier.
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Because diluted bitumen is so dense, it seeps into the soil and river beds rather than rising like conventional, lighter crude, potentially masking the full spill.
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The company is also seeking approval from regulators for its 50,000 bpd Cold Lake expansion project, which will use solvent-assisted steam technology to extract bitumen.
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The other recovery method, in situ, involves pumping superhot pressurized steam underground to melt out the bitumen so it can be sucked up to the surface.
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Vapor from the bitumen is released into the air when it is dug up in open pit mines and later as the oil is separated out.
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Size is crucial in the oil sands; the more bitumen a company can squeeze out of a plant, the lower fixed costs per barrel will be.
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In 2017, construction is set to begin on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which will carry bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to the BC coast.
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Unlike petrol and diesel that can be supplied across the country by pipeline, refiners rely on trucks to transport bitumen, which is used to build road.
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The bitumen shipped by Melius is returned to its solid state through a patented process known as BitCrude, which uses an electrically powered diluent recovery unit.
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The Alberta government receives royalties in the form of barrels of bitumen from some producers and had been signed up to ship 100,000 bpd on Energy East.
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Japex aims to produce 20,000 barrels per day of bitumen from the project, where a subsidiary owns a 75 percent stake, while Nexen Inc holds the rest.
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In another building on campus, Ian Gates and his team are turning sticky bitumen from the tar sands into pellets that can be transported in unheated railcars.
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Bitumen Beyond Combustion, a government-funded programme, is exploring what Alberta could do with the 22023bn barrels of oil in the tar sands other than burning it.
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Bitumen production increased less than 1 percent to 83,400 barrels per day in its latest quarter compared to 13,800 bpd in the same period a year ago.
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The firm operates four small refineries in China that process primarily Venezuela's Merey crude, a heavy type of oil that typically yields bitumen used in road construction.
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The firm operates four small refineries in China that process primarily Venezuela's Merey crude, a heavy type of oil that typically yields bitumen used in road construction.
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"Underneath the Bitumen," an Australian term for asphalt, was primarily funded by David Walsh, the millionaire founder of Hobart's avant-garde Museum of Old and New Art.
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A variety of obscure futures contracts already traded in China, like glass, silicomanganese, and bitumen, offer price discovery and a gauge on industrial activity in the country.
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Yuri Butler, manager of logistics and supply chain at private company Melius, said he believed its cargo was the first-ever export of solid bitumen to China.
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China planned to impose consumption taxes on oil byproducts such as mixed aromatics, light cycle oil and bitumen blend in May but no official announcement was made.
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But most of that production is now back, and more bitumen is set to come online in late 260 and early 2000, without additional infrastructure to move it.
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The pipeline is used for transporting diluent from Suncor's base plant to its Firebag plant for blending with bitumen at its Firebag plant, AER said in an email.
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Interestingly, she says any of the health risks that were encountered through the use of bitumen were probably outweighed by its many advantages for survival and well-being.
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The researchers also learned through this experiment that the kind of bitumen that washes up on the Channel Islands (from subterranean seeps) was suitable for making these bottles.
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Previously, it was suggested that the quality was too poor, forcing people on the islands to be more dependent on bitumen from the terrestrial seeps on the mainland.
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The government said the increase in production limits comes as warmer weather reduces the amount of diluent needed to help oil sands bitumen flow through pipelines, increasing capacity.
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Mining and extraction of bitumen at Syncrude's Mildred Lake and Aurora sites are also being paced to balance the resulting lower demand, the company said in a statement.
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Syncrude was forced to cut output and bring forward planned maintenance after the March 14 fire damaged the facility, which upgrades mined bitumen into refinery-ready synthetic crude.
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The company is one of the largest oil sands operators, with a number of thermal projects and bitumen mining operations, including a majority stake in the Syncrude project.
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The Gitga'at First Nation live on the coast, near the the proposed route that oil tankers would traverse to collect diluted bitumen carried from Alberta's oilsands for eventual export.
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Oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, as the company sold its bitumen crude at lower prices because of transportation bottlenecks.
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Such features are also useful for road builders, who use hot bitumen to bind together aggregates made from broken rocks and stones, into what is commonly known as asphalt.
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The company mixes synthetic crude from Syncrude with tarry bitumen from its oil sands reservoir to create a heavy crude blend known as "synbit" that can flow through pipelines.
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TVO is applying liquid absorbers that use bitumen as a material to fix the vibrations, a solution approved by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Authority (STUK), said the firm.
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Despite the loss, the company said realized bitumen prices rose C$9 per barrel as it benefited from higher demand for Canadian heavy crude from U.S. Gulf Coast refiners.
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He predicts 2016 to 2020 will be period in which rapid technology development in areas including drilling, solvent-assisted bitumen extraction and automation will result in massive cost savings.
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Just under half of these projects involves surface mining, and a process that digs up layers of peatland and sand 22009 metres deep to get at the tarry bitumen.
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The Keystone Pipeline System, which is owned by TransCanada, is a network of crude oil pipelines that carries bitumen from Alberta, Canada, to southern Illinois and Texas's Gulf Coast.
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The NEB approved an application by pipeline giant Enbridge to reverse the flow of Line 9 through their territory, allowing it to carry bitumen from the Alberta oil sands.
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The Keystone XL pipeline will also transport a viscous type of oil called diluted bitumen, or tar sands oil, which currently flows through the existing Keystone pipeline as well.
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But the country is still struggling to deliver meaningful climate change policy at home, and Mr. Trudeau in recent months has approved bitumen pipelines and liquid natural gas projects.
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He runs a small Calgary-based firm, Nsolv, that is testing the use of solvents to liquefy the bitumen buried in the sands and make it flow as oil.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bushfires in Australia destroyed buildings and threatened lives on Saturday as a heatwave in three states brought temperatures strong enough to melt the bitumen on a highway.
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Refiners have responded by squeezing more diesel and jet fuel from every barrel, mostly at the expense of lower-value products such as heavy fuel oil, bitumen and asphalt.
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Field Upgrading is working on front-end engineering and design of a 2,500 barrel per day partial upgrader, which would process oil sands bitumen into a lower sulphur marine fuel.
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Canada is the primary source of imported U.S. oil, but congested pipelines in Alberta, where tar-like bitumen is extracted, have forced oil shippers to use costlier rail and trucks.
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Bitumen, a cover-all term, was prized for its tawny glow, but the popularity of the pigment had much to do with the nineteenth-century taste for the Oriental macabre.
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The company had anticipated that some of the bitumen shipped from the oil sands would be loaded onto tankers at ports in eastern Canada for shipment to the United States.
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"Everyone goes back to driving in oblivion while talking on their iPhones, and underneath the bitumen there's this block," Mr. Parr said Wednesday, standing on the roadside before his burial.
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The outage also helped narrow heavy crude differentials because some oil sands producers need synthetic crude to mix with their bitumen and create a heavy blend that can flow through pipelines.
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"Bitumen balls", which look like liquorice sweets, could be refined into oil, acknowledges Mr Gates, but there could be a much bigger market for their use in other carbon-based products.
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These compounds, which has been linked to a wide range of health problems, are a noxious byproduct of warming bitumen, a petroleum-based substance that can be used as a sealant.
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Abalone shells were used as mixing dish, and the bitumen was heated with metavolcanic pebbles before applying the substance to the basket by hand using the bone of a sea mammal.
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Chief Executive Bill McCaffrey said the technology, which involves adding gas to steam injected underground to liquefy and extract tarry oil sands bitumen, will increase production volumes and improve economic returns.
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The price differential between the unrefined bitumen produced in Canada and what American refineries can get for the synthetic crude they make out of it isn't favorable to the Canadian market.
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The company reported a 505 percent rise in average production to 20.8,216.39 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the third quarter, helped by increased output at its thermal bitumen developments.
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"There isn't much room for bitumen in a low-carbon, low oil price future and the smart money recognizes that's where we are headed," said Greenpeace Canada energy strategist Keith Stewart.
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Asphalt is crushed stone or sand that is glued together with a thick viscous black substance known as bitumen, which was originally derived from petroleum but can now be made synthetically.
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Construction of the pipeline would help further develop of Alberta's oil fields, which extract a form of oil called bitumen, which requires large-scale and often toxic methods for its extraction.
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But then again, I also don't think to coat my dinner with a thin layer of bitumen and serve it up on a prison tray so, hey, what do I know?
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Like Keystone XL, Energy East had been seen as an opportunity to expand the market for the synthetic crude oil that is wrung out of the bitumen found in Northern Alberta.
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It would be unthinkable for us to turn away from their secrets, to allow the Iceman his privacy or to not scan beneath the bitumen to recover an Egyptian priestess's tattoos.
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Both more expensive light synthetic crude and cheaper heavy bitumen from oil sands production have been shut in, with a total of more than 1.2 million barrels of production offline, said Feltin.
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This means it is not heated with specialist equipment to make the bitumen in it soft enough to flow into the shape required and meld properly with the edges of the pothole.
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Utah has the nation's largest deposits of raw oil sand, or bitumen — enough to produce as much as 15 billion barrels of oil and potentially more, according to the Utah Geological Survey.
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Butler said the cost of shipping solid bitumen was competitive with transporting liquid crude via pipelines and tankers and that Melius was in talks with several oil sands producers about potential deals.
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In the two other sculptural installations, "Untitled (Too Thick)" (2018) and "Mother of All Demos" (2018), black wads of bitumen glom onto digital devices, suggesting that those devices are physically and functionally stuck.
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Traditional road materials such as asphalt and bitumen are costly - road repairs are funded from the tax-payers' purse, making innovation in this space in the greater interest of everyone and their neighbour.
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Typically, thermal projects involve drilling a pair of wells into an oil sands reservoir and pumping steam through the upper well to liquefy bitumen so it can flow out of the lower well.
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The reserve, buried beneath a layer of muskeg and forest in the northeastern part of the province, holds a reservoir of heavy crude oil known as bitumen, mixed with sand, clay and water.
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A century ago Canada began developing its oil sands, bitumen-rich deposits underneath the Western heartland of Alberta, and since then towering facilities have popped up all over the once-flat grassland landscape.
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MEG, whose key operations are in the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, said average realized price for bitumen rose to C$517.13 in the first quarter, from C$2517.1, a year earlier.
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The case seeks "to confirm the scope and extent of provincial powers to regulate environmental and economic risks related to heavy oils like diluted bitumen," British Columbia Attorney General David Eby told reporters.
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Compared with the back roads, where there is sometimes a single lane of bitumen (put your outside tires in the dirt if you encounter oncoming traffic), one might describe them as first rate.
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Roughly 90 percent of Aboriginal Tasmanians were slaughtered in the Black War of the early 19th century; yet some of their descendants have spoken out against "Underneath the Bitumen", calling it an insult.
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"Today's announcement by the federal government does not reduce the risk of a diluted bitumen spill," Mr. Horgan said at a news conference, using the technical name for the petroleum from oil sands.
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The company, which has raised nearly $1 billion in financing in the last two months alone, said its U.S. team would initially trade refined products, natural gas and bitumen out of its Houston office.
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Premier Kenney criticised the vote, arguing Bill C-48 unfairly targets exports of oil sands bitumen from Alberta, and said if the bill is passed into law the province will launch a constitutional challenge.
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In addition to replicating thermal plants a number of companies including Suncor, MEG, Cenovus Energy and Imperial Oil are looking at new ways to improve bitumen extraction by using solvents as well as steam.
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Because making petroleum products from this goo—called bitumen—releases more global-warming emissions than most other oil sources, the activists were going to do what they could to keep it in the ground.
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The researchers on the study also want to look at whether oil sands projects that use underground injections of steam to release the bitumen are any better than those that use open-pit mining.
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Due to open to the public this summer, this long snake of bitumen will connect a relatively small city on the Chinese mainland with the two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
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Suncor said parts of the 350,000 barrel-per-day Mildred Lake upgrading facility, which makes the tar-like bitumen less viscous, were running at minimum rates, but neither it nor Syncrude specified the capacity.
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"If fuel oil demand falls, we will switch our configuration to produce bitumen which is in high demand in India due to its road-building program," said an official from Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS).
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It has been subject to years of delay because of fierce environmental and landowner opposition, and has become a key symbol in the wider campaign against pipelines carrying diluted bitumen from Canada's vast oil sands.
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The government expects non-renewable resource revenue to grow in 13-20 to C$6.5 billion, up C$1.1 billion from the previous year, as a result of increased bitumen royalties from the oil sands.
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Many feel if Alberta could increase market access by building more pipelines, producers could unlock billions more barrels of bitumen and boom times would return to Canada, home to the world's third largest oil reserves.
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The fire at the Mildred Lake upgrader, which processes mined bitumen into refinery-ready synthetic crude, broke out on March 14 after a line failure caused a leak near one of the naphtha hydrotreating units.
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Up until the 20th Century when the Merck Index listed Mummia… was actually a mistranslation of an Arabic word for bitumen, the tar they used in the preparation of their mummies and to bind wounds.
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Contracts for certain fruits, chemicals and electricity are among those being considered, adding to an already considerable array of contracts for commodities that would be considered somewhat obscure in Western markets, such as bitumen and silicomanganese.
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Roadworks authorities were planning to spread light-colored sand on the worst-affected stretches to act as both a sunscreen and to help stabilize the liquefying bitumen, which can be a hazard for drivers, SWNS reports.
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The upgrader processes mined bitumen into refinery-ready synthetic crude Other operations remained stable at the 350,000 barrel per day mining and upgrading facility, roughly 40 kilometres north of the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray.
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The pipeline has been subject to years of delay because of fierce environmental and landowner opposition, and has become a key symbol in the wider campaign against pipelines carrying diluted bitumen from Canada's vast oil sands.
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Canada is the No.1 source of oil imported to the United States, but congested pipelines in Alberta, where heavy bitumen is extracted from the oil sands, have forced shippers to use costlier rail and trucks.
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"We believe it is our right to take appropriate measures to protect our environment, economy and our coast from the drastic consequence of a diluted bitumen spill," said British Columbia Premier John Horgan in a statement.
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The natural gas-fueled cogeneration units will replace coke-fired boilers and provide steam generation for Suncor's bitumen extraction and upgrading operations, as well as 13 megawatts of power to be transmitted to Alberta's electricity grid.
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They are searching for a breakthrough that will cut the cost of pumping the tar-like oil from the country's vast underground bitumen reservoirs and better compete with the booming shale industry in the United States.
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Neanderthals made glue as far back as 200,000 years ago, Paleoamericans in California produced tar-like bitumen some 5,000 years ago (which sadly exposed them to dangerous toxins), and Romans developed highly durable concrete 2,000 years ago.
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"This is an extraordinary situation it has not been seen earlier," said M.K. Surana, chairman of HPCL, which will cut crude processing by 10% to 20% at its Mumbai refinery as it faces a problem storing bitumen.
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I love Joe Sacco's "Bitumen or Bust" partly because the last time I drove through Alberta, Canada, I too nearly ran out of gas in the middle of a highway, just as Sacco and his friends nearly did.
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Exxon now says that 3.6 billion barrels of bitumen in its Kearl oil sands project in Canada, and about 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent in North American operations, may not qualify as proved reserves under SEC rules.
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Calgary-based Suncor also upped the expected capacity of Fort Hills to 22015,2427 barrels per day from 20163,22016 barrels per day, meaning the project's capital intensity will remain at C$4270,2200 per flowing barrel of bitumen for Suncor.
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"In other words, if there were a dilbit (diluted bitumen oil) spill, would future generations be deprived their title lands, if yes, then you have an effective veto," said Merle Alexander, another Vancouver lawyer specializing in aboriginal law.
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The sources said they were told that the company's thermal operations were not coming back online as quickly as hoped because of blockages, likely stemming from the shutdown of steam injections that melt the tarry bitumen in reservoirs.
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And the pipeline will have the capacity to pump diluted bitumen, often referred to as dilbit, is a "heavy, sour oil" that's mixed with lighter hydrocarbons so it can flow through a pipeline, according to the American Petroleum Institute.
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"Bitumen is composed of chemicals (PAHs) that have been linked to a variety of adverse human health effects, such as cancer, reproductive and developmental impairments, and decreased fetal length and head size," study lead author Sabrina Sholts told Gizmodo.
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Canada's gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 103 percent in the fourth quarter, down from 210 percent in the third quarter and slower than the 22 percent rate expected crude bitumen, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
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A diluent recovery unit at Bruderheim would remove the blended condensate from each barrel before they are loaded onto rail cars, increasing the volume of bitumen that can be shipped and keeping the condensate in Alberta to be reused.
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As part the agreement with BP, Varo will also acquire the major's polymer modified bitumen plant at Vohburg and a 9% stake in the major crude oil pipeline TAL that brings oil from the Italian port of Trieste to central Europe.
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It's the hub of the tar sand country, where oil companies extract a thick, sludgy crude known as bitumen — one of the most carbon-intensive forms of petroleum — from the ground, yet the evacuation was hampered by shortages of fuel.
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The company said the total realized price per barrel was $50.59 in the quarter, compared with $50.49 per barrel a year earlier, as higher LNG and bitumen prices were largely offset by lower crude, natural gas liquids and natural gas prices.
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CNOOC Ltd subsidiary Nexen Energy, which likewise uses synthetic crude to dilute its bitumen, cut output from its Long Lake oil sands project this month by 48 percent, said one of the two sources, as well as two separate sources.
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The facility cut production after a fire in March but Suncor's main oil sands plant nearby has helped manage Syncrude's bitumen inventories during the outage, a move that Williams said was a good example of how to leverage expanded infrastructure.
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Imperial Oil Ltd, majority-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp, has so far held back from buying up any oil sands assets, but CEO Rich Kruger said Canada's vast bitumen reserves were an incredible resource with improving economic and environmental competitiveness.
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The quarter also saw Exxon reduce its overall oil reserves by 3.3 billion barrels, as persistently low oil prices forced the company to take off its books 3.5 billion barrels of bitumen reserves at its Alberta, Canada oil sands project.
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Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude, which pioneered the oil sands, said the company had "reduced operations to a minimum" at its two projects and at facilities that turn the tar-like bitumen from the sands into synthetic crude oil.
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The U.S. oil major said developed and undeveloped reserves of bitumen - the heavy viscous oil found in northern Alberta's remote oil sands - totaled 1.2 billion barrels at the end of 2016, down from 2.4 billion barrels at the end of 2015.
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Green found 15 potential stressors that could arise during the movement of bitumen to the West Coast and beyond, from the impacts of higher amounts of sea traffic, to the possible movement of non-native species along the proposed pipeline route.
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"We have become specialists in LPG and bitumen for instance, the demand for these kind of products is very strong in Kenya and other countries, to address that demand we have to invest in logistics," Bruno Krief, Rubis chief financial officer.
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Alberta's left-leaning New Democrat government used April Fools' Day to solve the problem of getting bitumen, oil and natural gas from the land-locked province without going through the long consultations and reviews that have frustrated its oil industry.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Cenovus Energy is looking into building a diluent recovery unit at its Bruderheim crude-by-rail terminal near Edmonton, Alberta, which would allow the company to ship raw bitumen in tank cars and save on condensate costs.
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The company said it plans to spend C$120 million next year on thermal technology at its Christina Lake oil sands project in northern Alberta, which involves adding gas to steam injected underground to liquefy and extract tarry oil sands bitumen.
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Canada's oil sands are notoriously dirty, but in situ extraction—which involves blasting high-pressure steam into the ground to warm and soften bitumen, and then pumping it up to the surface—has been pitched as their environmentally friendlier future.
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CALGARY, Alberta, May 6 (Reuters) - The Syncrude oil sands project has completely shut down extraction at its Aurora bitumen mine and is operating other facilities at minimum levels, the result of the Fort McMurray wildfire, Chief Executive Mark Ward said on Friday.
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TORONTO, July 11 (Reuters) - Canadian investment in data, databases and data science, including those used by personal devices and businesses, is growing at such a rapid pace it is nearing the country's estimated bitumen reserves, one of the largest on the planet.
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He estimated total daily pre-tax profit losses at $30 million to $35 million for mining and upgrading operations, and another loss of $15 million a day for oil produced using SAGD, an enhanced oil recovery technology for bitumen and heavy crude.
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President Obama also expressed the opinion, which was rejected by the Canadian oil industry, that the project was also a way to get the oil-bearing oil sands' bitumen from landlocked Alberta onto tankers destined for export to countries beyond the United States.
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Although plenty of research has been done on the impacts of conventional oil spills in coastal environments, the effects of bitumen carried from the oilsands are virtually unknown, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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The average gross production at the Albian oil sands mine, which supplies the upgrader with bitumen, for May and April has now been revised at about 245,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) from the company's previous target of about 255,000 bbl/d.
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The project, led by a subsidiary of the Texas-based energy company Kinder Morgan, and with investment from Canadian banks, would triple the flow of bitumen to the coast to 20193,000 barrels a day and produce a sevenfold bump in tanker traffic.
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Although the move to support higher-cost production seems counterintuitive, oil sands companies take a longer-term view that shutting plants in Alberta would be very expensive and risk permanently damaging carefully-engineered reservoirs, underground deposits of millions of barrels of tarry bitumen.
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While much remains to be resolved before any pipe layers get to work, Mr. Trump has resurrected the Keystone XL pipeline, which is intended to move diluted, tarlike bitumen from the oil sands in Alberta to American refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Calgary, Alberta-based Melius Energy loaded 130 barrels of neat bitumen, similar in consistency to a hockey puck, onto a 20-foot shipping container in Edmonton, Alberta, and transported it by rail to the Port of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia.
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The modular approach is a far cry from Suncor's giant Fort Hills mining plant, due to be finished later this year, which will produce 230,10 bpd at a capital intensity of C$2210,2000 per flowing barrel of bitumen, or around C$22000 billion in total.
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"Quantities that could be required to be de-booked as proved reserves on an SEC basis amount to approximately 3.6 billion barrels of bitumen at Kearl, and about 1 billion oil-equivalent barrels in other North America operations," the company said in a statement.
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The 558,000 barrel-per-day Cold Lake pipeline system transports diluted oil sands bitumen from the Cold Lake region in northern Alberta to the Edmonton marketing hub for shippers including Imperial, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd and Cenovus Energy Inc, according to Inter Pipeline's website.
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Conventional crude production in Canada is dwarfed by output from northern Alberta's vast oil sands, where tarry bitumen is mined or steamed out of the ground, but still amounted to around 2000 million barrels per day (bpd) in 22015, research firm Raymond James said.
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Iraq overtook Saudi Arabia for the first time to be India's top oil supplier in the June quarter, helped by sales of discounted heavy crude that refiners have also been using to make bitumen to build roads in the world's No.3 oil consumer.
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"Once bitumen sinks to the bottom of a lake or wetland, it is much more problematic to clean up than conventional oil, which floats nicely and can be skimmed off the surface," Diane Orihel, a professor in aquatic ecotoxicology at Queen's University, told VICE News.
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Teck, which also mines copper, zinc and bitumen, said adjusted profit rose to C$653 million ($500.8 million), or C$1.12 per share, in the three months to end June, from C$580 million, or 99 Canadian cents a share, in the same year-ago period.
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This attempt to estimate TMX's climate-related costs is based on government and scientific reports on how much additional carbon dioxide (CO2) will be emitted to produce the oil products, including diluted bitumen—a tar-like form of crude oil—to fill the new TMX pipe.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Iraq overtook Saudi Arabia for the first time to become India's top oil supplier in the June quarter, helped by sales of discounted heavy crude that refiners have also been using to make bitumen to build roads in the world's No.3 oil consumer.
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But as nearly 80 percent of oil sands costs are fixed investments, such as equipment for injecting high-pressure steam underground to liquefy tarry bitumen, producers prefer to have some revenue coming in to help offset those costs than none, said FirstEnergy Capital analyst Mike Dunn.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Canadian company has loaded a test cargo of solid bitumen onto a vessel destined for a refinery in China, the latest effort by the energy industry to avoid congested export pipelines and find new ways to export more oil sands crude.
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Canadian heavy oil is an easy substitute for Middle Eastern and Latin American grades, and the rising demand represents a rare bright spot for the oil sands, which have been hit hard by falling prices and the high cost to produce and blend Alberta's heavy, tar-like bitumen.
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Christmas plans were canceled when the roads were cut by swollen rivers, classrooms were entered with muddy bare feet after braving saturated school playgrounds, and the same feet were burned by bitumen roads that sizzled in the summer sun, melting the rubber off the tires of overheated cars.
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New in-situ oil sands projects, also known as thermal projects, which pump steam underground to liquefy tarry bitumen so it can flow to the surface, will not be subject to federal assessment providing Alberta keeps a hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions introduced by the previous New Democratic Party government.
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Sacco's reportage in comic form, reprinted below from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's forthcoming anthology The Best American Comics 2019 (on sale October 1), offers a stark look at our bond to Big Oil and the consternations it creates, digging deep into the industry that extracts and refines bitumen, extremely heavy crude oil, from the earth.
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"If someone regularly breathed fumes from melted bitumen—not just for making bottles, but possibly also for making boats, tools, objects for cooking/storing food, [and other items]—it's possible that it could have contributed to an adverse health effect at some point during life, particularly if there were other sources of exposure," said Sholts.
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"We own over 200 construction vessels around the world which consume close to about 500,000 tonnes of marine fuel on average each year and we have many more ships on hire," said Jin, adding that the group's oil requirements go beyond just marine fuels and include crude oil, refined products and bitumen used in road construction.
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Bitumen-lined water bottle manufactured in the traditional method used by Native Californians (Image: Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Institution)The California Channel Islands are unique in that they're one of the few places in North America where archaeologists can find traces of continuous human occupation dating back to when the peopling of the Americas began, up until the Industrial Age.
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Ian D. Gates, chairman of the department of petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary, said that it was unlikely that the oil sands deposits underground would be affected, but that the bitumen in oil sands already at the surface, exposed by mining or erosion, might burn if a sufficiently hot wildfire were to reach them.
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Oil sands producers have slashed operating costs by a third since 240, but building a new thermal project - in which steam is pumped as deep as one kilometer (2000 yards)underground to liquefy tar-like bitumen and bring it to the surface - requires U.S. crude benchmark at around $2194 a barrel to break even, analysts estimate.
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Rather than wilt away as Homo sapiens have spread forth bearing concrete, bitumen, and steel, a select number of species have developed elegant adaptations to cope with the peculiarities of urban life: more rigid cellular membranes that may ward off heat, digestive systems that can absorb sugary garbage, altered limbs and torsos that enhance agility atop asphalt or in runoff-fattened streams.
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There is an intriguing continuity, in terms of palette, materials, and techniques, between Hedge's brown and black works of the early to mid-1960s — made by layering and tearing industrial building paper, that is, Kraft paper laminated together with bitumen reinforced with sisal fibre—and her adoption in 1968–69 of Kraft paper and chipboard panels, coated with linseed oil mixed with graphite or soaked with oil, as the medium for her "set theory" experiments.
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