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Weather eases Canadian oil sands city wildfire menace

Weather eases Canadian oil sands city wildfire menace. Rain and cooler weather have halted the advance of a huge wildfire threatening the Canadian city of Fort McMurray in a major oil-producing ...

Koch Brothers' Political Activism Protects

The names of the two subsidiaries currently at the heart of the company's Canadian oil sands development activities—Koch Exploration Canada L.P. and Koch Oil Sands Operating G.P.—are also ...

Canadian Oil Sands Set for 15% Output Boost Says S&P …

In a Thursday report, S&P Global said it now expected Canadian oil sands to produce 3.8 million barrels per day by 2030–or 500,000 barrels per day more than currently–due to optimization ...

Biden Administration Backs Oil Sands Pipeline Project

June 24, 2021. The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota's delicate watersheds, urging in a ...

Marathon Oil Sells Canadian Oil Sands Assets, …

Marathon Oil has signed a deal to sell its Canadian subsidiary—that includes a 20-percent non-operated interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP)—to Shell and Canadian Natural ...

One of the World's Dirtiest Oil Patches Is Pumping More …

Ben Nelms/Bloomberg News. TORONTO—Major oil companies, under pressure from investors and environmentalists, are fleeing Canada's oil sands, the fourth-largest oil reserve in the world and by ...

How Things Work: Canada's Oil Sands

A native of Montreal, Canada, she joined the UNU communications team in 2008 while living in Tokyo and, after relocating to Vancouver, continued to telecommute to Our World as writer/editor through 2015. The Canadian oil sands are a place where tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a type of thick crude oil called bitumen.

10-Year Production Outlook for Canadian Oil Sands Raised

The new forecast, produced by the S&P Global Commodity Insights Oil Sands Dialogue, expects Canadian oil sands production to reach 3.7 million barrels …

Oil Sands | CAPP

Oil sands deposits are a mixture of sand and clay, water, and a kind of oil called bitumen – oil that is too thick to flow on its own. At room temperature, bitumen is like peanut butter or cold molasses. At low temperatures, oil sands oil is as hard as a hockey puck. This means Canada's oil producers had to develop novel ways to extract the ...

Canada's largest oil sands producers announce …

CALGARY, Alberta, June 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus Energy, Imperial, MEG Energy and Suncor Energy formally announced today the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero ...

Old, small and CO2-intense: why Canada's highest-carbon oil sands …

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd's (CNQ.TO) (CNRL) Peace River site emits 0.197 tonnes of CO2e per barrel, the highest in the oil sands, according to 2019 Alberta government data. Peace River, which ...

Wildfires Disrupt Canadian Oil Sands Operations

Wildfires in northern Alberta continued to disrupt some oil sands operations as Cenovus Energy demobilized this week non-essential staff at its Sunrise project as a precaution amid heat and wildfire alerts in the area. At present, output at Sunrise, which produces about 48,900 barrels per day (bpd), remains unaffected.

TotalEnergies sheds Canadian oil sands, promises to reward

Energy major TotalEnergies said on Thursday it had accepted an offer to sell its carbon-heavy Canadian oil sands operations to Suncor Energy for $4.1 billion, with potential additional payments of ...

Canada's Oil Sands Set for Expansion as Pipeline Nears …

The top liquids producer, Canadian Natural Resources, for example, announced last month its 2024 capital budget that targets exit 2024 production levels of around 1.455 million barrels of oil ...

Canadian Oil Sands (COSWF) Stock Price and News

Real-time Price Updates for Canadian Oil Sands (COSWF), along with buy or sell indicators, analysis, charts, historical performance, news and more

The Oil Sands Explained … in 10 minutes | Oil Sands Magazine

Alberta's oil sands. It's the world's third largest oil reserves, 161 billion recoverable barrels in the ground. They're are huge part of Canada's economy, contributing trillions to Canada's GDP over the past 50 years, generating billions annually in government taxes, revenues and royalties, supporting small and medium-sized businesses from …

S&P Global Commodity Insights Raises 10-year Production …

News provided by. S&P Global Commodity Insights May 09, 2024, 09:00 ET. ... The updated forecast expects Canadian oil sands production to reach 3.8 million barrels per day (mbd) by 2030—half a ...

Canada's Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and

An oil sands mine in Alberta, Canada adjacent to boreal forest outside of Fort McMurray. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News. The sands pump out more than 3 million barrels of oil per day ...

What are the oil sands?

The oil sands will remain an important part of the Canadian economy . Canada's oil sands are developed by the private sector, with major investments from companies based in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. As a result, the economic benefits of oil sands development reach across Canada and around the …

Canadian oil sands output expected to reach 3.7 million …

Canadian oil sands production is expected to reach 3.7 million barrels per day by 2030, S&P Global said on Thursday, raising the analytics firm's 2030 production outlook for the country for the ...

10 Biggest Canadian Oil & Gas Companies

Cenovus Energy, Suncor Energy, and Imperial Oil are the top three Canadian oil and gas companies, by TTM revenue. #1 Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE) Revenue (TTM): CA$71.37 billion

Visualizing the Size and Scale of the Canadian Oil Sands

Canada has the third largest share of reserves in the world, 169.7 billion barrels of which 96% are oil sands. In 2019, oil sands accounted for 63% of Canada's oil production or 2.95 million barrels per day (NRCan). Total capital investment in 2019 is estimated at $325 billion of which $10.2 billion occurred in 2019.

Canada's Oil Sands Exports to Asia Reach Record with New …

Canada's oil sands producers were able to export a record amount of crude to overseas markets thanks to a new link to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Canadian Oil Sands Production Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Levels…

The latest forecast by the IHS Markit Oil Sands Dialogue expects Canadian oil sands production to reach 3.6 million barrels per day (MMbd) in 2030, an increase of 650,000 barrels per day compared ...

2023 Annual Canadian Oil sands production outlook – The Canadian oil …

Canadian oil sands production is expected to reach 3.7 million barrels per day by 2030. This is half a million b/d more than today and an increase of 140,000 b/d in 2030 from last year's outlook. Last year we wrote that heightened energy security concerns (and higher prices) hadn't changed the outlook for Canadian oil sands.

2023 Annual Canadian Oil sands production …

The 2023 release of S&P Global Commodity Insights 10-year oil sands outlook is the first upward revision in our expectation of oil sands growth in over half a decade. Canadian oil sands production is …

Canadian Oil Sands Ltd Stock

Latest news about Canadian Oil Sands Ltd . Suncor Energy : reports fourth-quarter loss, slashes 2016 capital budget 16-02-03: RE Canadian Natural Resources : TSX pulled down by oil price fall, economic unease 16-01-18: RE Canadian Oil Sands : Suncor reaches deal to buy Canadian Oil Sands with sweetened offer ...