When a group of Harris Corp. employees in Florida began working to develop new technologies for the oil sands industry, they got off to a shaky start. In their first brainstorming session, they ...

A test shipment of bitumen oil from Alberta is on its way to China, but it didn’t get to a British Columbia port by pipeline – it was moved by train through Prince Rupert in a semi-solid form commonly ...

The internal technical inquiry into the fire accident at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)’s Quality Control Laboratory and Office on August 11, which led to the death of a chief engineer ...

Asphalt Analyzer Laboratory Test Machine The InfraTest Asphalt Analyzer provides an automated and enclosed method of performing solvent extractions to verify asphalt content on bituminous mixture, and ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2016) - Suncor today provided an update on its work with Nsolv Corporation to test solvent-based extraction techniques and explore advancing the technology to ...

The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

In 2016 the government turned its attention to bitumen – also known as asphalt, which is used in road-surfacing – placing the country’s large standalone deposits of the hydrocarbon mixture at the ...

The AutoXtract is an innovative device that automates the processes associated with asphalt extraction and recovery. Designed for the determination of asphalt content in mixtures as well as ...

The accumulation of mature fine tailings (MFT) in tailings ponds has been a concern of the oil sands industry for nearly four decades. However, even when a few measures have been implemented, the ...

WORRIED by the evils of crude oil in the oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta, Bitumen-bearing communities of Ondo, Ogun, and Edo States of Nigeria, rose from a consultative forum in Benin City, ...