The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation's MacKay and Dover oil sands deposits in Alberta province. The two are projected to yield five million barrels of ...

Then there are the industrial tar pits, better known as oil sands, tar sands and bituminous sands. And, to no one's surprise, they're of great interest to energy companies. But just like the name ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

That's where the Alberta oil sands come in. Check out the full length story > The Athabasca oil sands are at the center of a huge fight between environmentalists and oil companies. Oil companies ...

That was Boucher's first encounter with the oil sands industry. It's an industry that has utterly transformed this part of northeastern Alberta in just the past few years, with astonishing speed.

Suncor Energy Inc. SU recorded the highest crude output in October from its wells in Alberta on gains at the Firebag oil sands site. Owing to the record high production, the site has also been ter ...

Donald Trump says he will declare a national energy emergency to increase oil and gas production in the United States, ...

The fate of Canada’s largest proposed carbon capture and storage project now hangs in the balance after Prime Minister Justin ...

Canadian Natural, which has operations in western Canada, the U.K. portion of the North Sea and offshore Africa, said some C$3.2 billion of the spending planned for 2025 will go toward conventional ...

Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has laid nine charges in relation to an industrial wastewater release at Imperial Oil Resources Limited’s Kearl ...