Black torrents of diluted bitumen flowed through the community, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes.
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The deal should more than double the size of Shell's bitumen business in the country.
Oil sands are naturally occurring geologic formations that contain a mixture of water, sand, and bitumen.
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Bitumen is a category of organically-based liquids that are highly viscous, black, and sticky.
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The industry uses regulated amounts of water from the Athabasca River to separate bitumen from the sand.
At Surmont, instead of open-pit mining, the bitumen is melted out of the ground by injecting steam.
The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.
The weak link in pavement is bitumen, the black petroleum product that holds the bits of rock together.
Bitumen, otherwise known as tar sand, is oil-soaked dirt that needs to be cooked to extract the oil.
It is estimated that there is enough bitumen in Alberta to yield 1.7 trillion barrels of synthetic crude.
The company said at the time that 10 litres of chemical bitumen had split at its southern compound.
The rubberised bitumen itself is flexible and slightly springy, which enables it to absorb more unwanted sonic energy.
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The technology for removing bitumen from the tar sands is probably still best described as a work in progress.
Bitumen is so low in capacity to produce gasoline and so viscous and dense, it cannot be processed directly.
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The Board predicted bitumen production will increase to 1.2 billion barrels a year (3.2 million a day) by 2019.
While there are certain shale formations that do contain Bitumen, those are not being currently produced on any significant scale.
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We made our way out of the pit and headed on, following the bitumen to its next stop, the upgrader.
Bitumen is derived from oil, which means its price has risen over the past decade alongside that of crude oil.
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Alberta, Canada is site of the world's largest extraction operations from oil sands, heavy earth laden with bitumen, a hydrocarbon-rich mineral.
Production of oil from tar sands bitumen produces between three and five times the greenhouse gas pollution of conventional oil production.
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Bitumen is the term for oil that is of a tar-like consistency and quality as it exists in an underground formation.
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Natural gas has to be burned into order to generate the steam needed to made the bitumen fluid enough to move.
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Yes, open pit bitumen mining blights the landscape, the process releases too much carbon dioxide, and tailing ponds occasionally kill ducks.
The island valley opens itself like a book, and between the pages is a slick of bitumen designed by a madman.
That is because rubber can partially replace bitumen, the binding agent used to hold the crushed stones together in ordinary asphalt.
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Where the feed lies closest to the surface, as, for example, at the Suncor site, the bitumen is strip-mined and then separated.
Scraping the bitumen off the grains is the first step in extraction.
An investigation has begun to find out how 10 litres of the chemical bitumen was spilt by the firm redeveloping Guernsey's Airport.
When it is shaken in hot water, bitumen comes away from sand and is sent to a separation vessel to be skimmed off.
The remaining value can be attributed to oil and gas trading and energy products like natural gas, synthetic oil, bitumen and fuel oil.
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