At the enormous oil sand strip mine, shovel cranes drop 100-ton loads of sand into 400-ton dump trucks.
With oil prices rising and offshore production looking unattractive, we turn our attention to the great frozen north where water is sparse and oil sand abounds.
They work, they invest, they put their heads to the task, they apply technology, and pretty soon they'll discover how to extract oil profitably from oil sand.
Increasing oil sand production will not necessarily increase gasoline production.
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Kloza said much of the expansion would come along the Gulf of Mexico and in the Midwest, an ideal spot to process heavy crude from Canada's emerging oil sand deposits.
Edwards is a self-made oil billionaire who was earlier than most in appreciating the opportunity of extracting sulphurous oil from sand in northern Alberta.
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
After dismantling its brake drums, carburetor, motor head and oil pan to sand off the rust, he gave the refurbished car to his mother in exchange for lifts on his newspaper route.
Unable to stop Canadian oil drilling and tar sand extraction programs, environmental groups are now trying to block any pipeline that is proposed out of the oil producing regions.
ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that near 1, 695 barrels of oil soaked soil and sand has been recovered so far with about 900 personnel and more than 30 vessels working on the clean up.
The market cap of Petrobras has shed billions since she took over from what many Petrobras watchers say is nothing more than a policy instrument for Brasilia to funnel money to pet projects, rather than an actual oil company drilling below sand and rock salt in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bitumen, otherwise known as tar sand, is oil-soaked dirt that needs to be cooked to extract the oil.
Mendes and the cinematographer, Roger Deakins, produce some astonishing scenes soldiers seemingly turning into sand crabs, oil fires at night but without the test of combat the men come off as infantile and self-pitying.
U.S. Silica specializes in commercial silica used in a variety of industries, the most prominent being "frac sand" to stimulate oil and gas recovery in formations such as shale.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals deep into oil and gas wells to crack gas-bearing rock.
Whitehorn and Leggett lament that many in the energy industry have their heads in the sand about the urgency of peak oil.
Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.
But they went out on the sand anyway and began sopping up the oil.
Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast, is an oil refining and tourist centre, boasting white-sand beaches, crystalline waters and popular casinos.
It has not been possible to overcome the basic fact that the Shiites in the south and the Kurds in the north have the oil and the Sunnis in the center have the sand.
The problem is that this oil is sulphurous, molasses-thick and choked with sand.
Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, fine sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks.
Demand for frac sand is rising as more energy companies explore unconventional oil deposits, but the supply hasn't kept up.
Thick black waves roll up onto the beach in Beirut, splashing against sand that's been stained by a huge oil spill.
The company produces premium monocrystalline sand, which is used to improve the recovery of oil and gas during hydraulic fracturing drilling.
The drilling technique, which uses sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from rock formations, has helped Eagle Ford oil production grow by 184% last year compared with 2011, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas exploration and production.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations and release oil and natural gas deep underground.
Under the process of fracking, oil or gas is extracted from shale rock by pumping a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into the rock at high pressure.
Oil sands are naturally occurring geologic formations that contain a mixture of water, sand, and bitumen.
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Fracking, of course, is the controversial method by which producers extract tight oil and gas a process that uses a concoction of water, sand and chemicals to break those deposits free from the rocks where they rest a mile beneath the ground.
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