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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

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 ...

Overheating of the sample inside an oven to complete the bitumen extract test quickly was what triggered the August 11 blaze in the quality control lab at the BBMP headquarters, sources in the civic ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary are promising dramatic improvements in the costs and environmental performance of the oil sands with technology they hope to perfect at a new research centre.

BENIN—THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has urged the Federal Government to halt the planned commencement of bitumen exploitation in the bitumen belt stretching ...

A novel bitumen extraction project in the Fort McMurray region is facing significant opposition by the community close to which it is located. Drift Resource Technologies, an Okotoks, Alta.-based ...