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 ...

UTS added its Frontier Project to its contingent bitumen resource status following the results of an independent review of bitumen resources for its three major oil sands projects. UTS added its ...

Oil shale is a form of sedimentary rock that contains kerogen, which is released as a petroleum-like liquid when the rock is heated. Tar sands are a combination of clay, sand, water and bitumen, which ...

The new oil sands explosion is somewhat similar to the ... surface delivers high-pressure steam that warms the surrounding bitumen enough to get it seeping into the vacant shaft below.

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of ...

For years, Indigenous communities living near Canada’s oil sands have worried about the health impacts of the cloud of air pollution rising from the vast industrial mining complex. A recent ...

Alberta’s government is moving ahead with plans to allow oil sands producers to pay their royalties in bitumen, letting it turn around and sell those barrels in a major expansion of the ...

In the fourth quarter of 2024, total oil sands bitumen production hit a record 951,500 bbls/d compared with 866,200 bbls/d in the previous-year quarter. This growth was primarily due to record ...