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A Stanford University study commissioned by the EU in 2011 found that oil sands crude was as much as 22% more carbon-intensive than other fuels. [165] [166] According to the "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" analysis, oil sands emit 31% more GHG that the average North American crude oil. [167]
The Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited (then a subsidiary of Sun Oil Company but now incorporated into an independent company known as Suncor Energy Inc.) produced 30,000 barrels per day (4,800 m 3 /d) of synthetic crude oil.
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...
Along with U.S. tight oil plays, Canada's oil sands are one of the most promising unconventional oil resources in North America. Alberta's oil sands industry supports tens of thousands of Canadian ...
Canada is home to 173 billion barrels of recoverable heavy oil, and 168 billion barrels of that is located in oil sands. Most estimates point toward Canada's oil sands pumping out 5.2 million bpd ...
Much of Canada's petroleum effort has focused on producing oil from the oil sands (sometimes called "tar sands") of northern Alberta.To appreciate these resources, it is important to understand a simple concept from chemistry and physics: the "gravity" of crude oil and natural gas liquids.
While Alberta's oil sands hold the promise of providing both the U.S. and Canada with greater energy security over the next several years, they also face some grave challenges. Some of the biggest ...
In 1980, a plant in Cold Lake was one of just two oil sands plants under construction in Alberta. [4] Although not developed as quickly and extensively as originally envisioned, an Imperial Oil plant in Cold Lake became the largest in situ oil sands project constructed in Alberta during the 1980s. By 1991, its daily oil production was 90,000 ...