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Oil sands were by then the source of 62% of Alberta's total oil production and 47% of all oil produced in Canada. [33] As of 2010, oil sands production had increased to over 1.6 million barrels per day (250,000 m 3 /d) to exceed conventional oil production in Canada. 53% of this was produced by surface mining and 47% by in-situ techniques.
Syncrude's Mildred Lake plant (MLSB) in the Athabasca oil sands. The Alberta's oil sands "emit high levels of air pollutants" based on a May 25, 2016 article entitled "Oil sands operations as a large source of secondary organic aerosols" in Nature in June 2016 by lead author John Liggio and a team of Environment Canada scientists.
The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of oil sands rich in bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, in northeastern Alberta, Canada. These reserves are one of the largest sources of unconventional oil in the world, making Canada a significant player in the global energy market.
The companies’ energy-hungry extraction of the tar sands in Alberta has made the oil and gas sector Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
(Reuters) -Canada will fund an Indigenous-led study into how oil sands development impacts the health of local communities, the government said on Wednesday, following a tailings water leak from ...
(Reuters) -The province of Alberta will toughen its greenhouse gas emissions standards for oil sands mines, closing a loophole that rewarded some of Canada’s highest-emitting facilities with ...
In 2007 the World Energy Council estimated that these oil sands areas contained at least two-thirds of the world's discovered bitumen in place at the time, [3] with an original oil-in-place (OOIP) reserve of 260,000,000,000 cubic metres (9.2 × 10 12 cu ft) (1.6 trn barrels), an amount comparable to the total world reserves of conventional oil.
Most estimates point toward Canada's oil sands pumping out 5.2 million bpd by 2030, which would be some major growth. Canada is home to 173 billion barrels of recoverable heavy oil, and 168 ...