Sentence examples for bitumen deposits from inspiring English sources

Oil and gas reservoirs of the Alberta foothills and N.E. British Columbia commonly have bitumen deposits lining pores.

Most of these reserves, however, are in the form of extra-heavy oil and bitumen deposits located in the Orinoco belt in the central part of the country, which have not been exploited to a large extent.

As a supply for future fuel and energy demand, 95% of the bitumen deposits in North America are expected to become a major source.

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has become a preferred in-situ recovery technology for oil sands and bitumen deposits in Canada.

Not when the cost curve lying between today's production of a little over one and a quarter million barrels a day and tomorrow's target of three million barrels a day is steeply ascending, driven by the need to pursue ever-deeper bitumen deposits even further away from available water sources like the already heavily tapped Athabasca River.

With today's technology, about 27 billion m 3 or around 10%—of the estimated bitumen deposits can be economically extracted.

The solvent, such as propane, is heated to a relatively low temperature (about 50 °C) and injected into a bitumen deposit.

For the case studied, SAGD has more than 75% chance of economic success (NPV>0), suggesting its attractiveness for the Nigerian bitumen deposit.

From horizon to horizon, diggers and dumpers, on wheels or tracks, are clawing away topsoil and carting off the black, bitumen-enriched deposits beneath.

I've got nothing against the passions of those — including friends of mine — pushing hard to persuade President Obama not to let the Keystone XL pipeline move forward and carry bitumen from Canadian deposits to United States Gulf Coast refineries.

The extraction and upgrading process for bitumen from oil sand deposits in Alberta, Canada currently requires large volumes of process water.