Oil and Gas News

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  The Koch Brothers Have Buried An Area The Size Of A City Block Under 30 Feet Of Oil Sands Waste

  Business Insider - 7 hours ago

  a coke byproduct that results from refining the tar-like bitumen of the oil sands into oil. Coke is a low-quality type of coal and the Marathon Petroleum plant in Detroit has made overlooking its role in the oil sands debate impossible to ignore...
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  Canada backs demonstration-scale algal biorefinery project in the oil sands; Algal Carbon Conversion

  Green Car Congress - 16 hours ago

  that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. The Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) Pilot Project is a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada...
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  The Koch Brothers Have Buried A Space The Size Of A City Block Under Thirty Feet Of Oil Sands Waste

  Business Insider - 18 hours ago

  a coke byproduct that results from refining the tar-like bitumen of the oil sands into well, oil. Coke is a a low-quality type of coal and the Marathon Petroleum plant in Detroit has made overlooking its role in the oil sands debate impossible...
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  The Koch Brothers Have Buried A Space The Size Of A City Block Under 30 Feet Of Oil Sands Waste

  Business Insider Australia - 19 hours ago

  a coke byproduct that results from refining the tar-like bitumen of the oil sands into well, oil. Coke is a a low-quality type of coal and the Marathon Petroleum plant in Detroit has made overlooking its role in the oil sands debate impossible...

• Stephen Harper touts Keystone XL pipeline in New York, downplays oilsands emissions

  EIN News - 20 hours ago

• Boart Longyear Announces Safe Rescue of Drill Rig Employee in Northern Canada

  Business Wire - May 18, 2013

  companies globally. It also has a substantial presence in energy, mine de-watering, oil sands exploration, and production drilling. Boart Longyear is a global company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and is listed on the Australian Securities...

• Mountain Of Oil Sands Waste Rises Over Detroit

  Huffington Post Canada - May 18, 2013

  mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom.
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  Refining Canada’s oil sands produces petroleum coke, called "the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth." It's piling up along the Detroit River, NYT reports, thanks to a Marathon Petroleum refinery that began refining Canadian oil sands in Novem

  Seeking Alpha - May 18, 2013

  Refining Canada’s oil sands produces petroleum coke, called " the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth ." It's piling up along the Detroit River, NYT reports, thanks to a Marathon...
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  Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit (New York Times)

  WHBY AM 1150 - May 17, 2013

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• Obama Visits Baltimore, Tries to Turn Focus to Efforts to Help Middle Class (Baltimore)

  Oregonian - May 17, 2013

  testified a day earlier in Congress in support of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, which Republicans have said will create jobs. Many Democrats oppose the project on environmental grounds, and the Obama administration is expected to issue a ruling...
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  Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

  New York Times - May 17, 2013

  Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city...

• Canadian Oil Sands Limited (COS) - Oil & Gas - Deals and Alliances Profile - new company profile report

  TransWorldNews - May 17, 2013

  Canadian Oil Sands Limited (COS), formerly Canadian Oil Sands Trust, provides investment opportunity in the oil sands. It carries out exploration and production projects. The company has 36.74% working interest in...

• Canada doubles spending on advertising to promote oil sands

  StockHouse USA - May 17, 2013

  Canada’s tars sands may just be the most unpopular source of energy in the world. Nevertheless they are vitally important to Canada’s plans for the future, so they are keen to reverse this opinion, and have increased their expenditure on advertising by...

• Seair Announces Quarterly Conference Call

  Live-PR.com - May 17, 2013

  s contract to provide portable water treatment services to one of its oil sands clients, which is currently its largest portable waste water treatment customer, will come to an end on July 1, 2013. The Company will be discussing this and other development...

• Obama tries to talk economy amid din of scandal

  Washington Times - May 17, 2013

  to come, all related to the production of oil from the Alberta oil sands deposits.? The president didn?t mention the pipeline. But he said of the dredging company, the oldest of its kind in the U.S., ?You all know a thing...

• Impact of Ozonation on Naphthenic Acids Speciation and Toxicity of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water to Vibrio fischeri and Mammalian Immune System

  Environmental Science & Technology - May 17, 2013

  Web): May 17, 2013 Copyright © 2013 American Chemical Society Abstract Oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) is the water contained in tailings impoundment structures in oil sands operations. There are concerns about the environmental impacts...

• Canada funds algae project in the oil sands

  Biomass Magazine - May 17, 2013

  partners has the potential to revolutionize how industrial carbon emissions in the oil sands and in other industrial facilities are managed. The three-year project will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands...

• KEYSTONE XL: Canadian oil sands likely would replace dirtier crude -- economist

  E&E Daily - May 17, 2013

  The Canadian oil sands crude that the Keystone XL pipeline would transport might be cleaner than the oil it would replace, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology energy economist testified before a House panel...

• Canada's Youth Shun The Oil Sands: Report

  Huffington Post Canada - May 17, 2013

  qualified employees who are highly mobile — a “perfect demographic storm.” The oil sands directly employed 22,340 workers as of 2012, according to the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada. The report found that in order to meet growing oil...

• PATENT: Titanium wins final Canadian recognition for oil sands tailings treatment

  Canadian Mining Journal - May 16, 2013

  of the three core Canadian patents that together secure its innovative green oil sands technology. The new patent (No. 2662346 Moran et al) was awarded for a novel process that recovers bitumen from froth treatment tailings. By recovering residual...

• WorleyParsons Slumps After Flagging Earnings Cut: Sydney Mover

  Washington Post - May 16, 2013

  and the company sees less than expected construction growth in the Canadian oil sands market, the Sydney-based company said today in a statement. The company had forecast in February that underlying earnings would exceed last year’s A$345.6 million...
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  Oil sands emissions 'almost nothing globally' says Harper

  Embassy Magazine - May 16, 2013

  'There are probably reasons beyond just emissions why you would want to have the oil from Canada rather than from Venezuela.' PMO Photo Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Robert E. Rubin, co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, on May 16....

• Titanium digs for value in oil sands tailings

  Northern Miner - May 16, 2013

  VANCOUVER — As Canada's oil sands become increasingly important to the nation's economy there will inevitably be a demand for ongoing research and development. Edmonton-based junior Titanium Corp. (TIC) sees such an opportunity in...

• Harper To America: Let's Do This Thing

  Huffington Post Canada - May 16, 2013

  s administration should approve the proposed pipeline that would connect Alberta's oilsands to the Gulf Coast, touting job creation prospects. Harper said the project will create 40,000 jobs south of the Canadian border and that can't be ignored...