Sentence examples for bitumen up from inspiring English sources

Unlike the sprawling open-pit mines and poisonous lakes that have made Fort McMurray's tar sands infamous, many of Peace River's operations use wells to bring bitumen up to the surface of the land.

When the pressure is released, bitumen flows up through the injection well.

On May 20, CNRL told regulators bitumen was coming up in at least one area it wasn't supposed to.

Rueben George, manager of the nation's Sacred Trust, told VICE News Friday that the First Nation "will do whatever it takes" to stop the project, which would see nearly three times as much oil — specifically, viscous and tough to clean up bitumen — pumped from near Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, BC.

When constructing a tomol, chunks of hard bitumen were broken up with pounding stones, mixed with pine pitch and red ochre, and boiled until the substance reached proper consistency (Hudson et al. 1978).

Results show that LR-bitumen blends incorporating up to 30% RTR in weight of total binder clearly improves useful temperature interval of base bitumen by maintaining solubility values allowing them to be considered stable at hot-storage temperature.

Gazing across the road, I tried to make out the lines where they'd carved up the bitumen.

Dig bitumen out of the ground in Canada, heat it up and refine it, and you get a plausible synfuel.

The viscosity of bitumen drops by up to five orders of magnitude when heated to above 200 °C and mobilized bitumen at the chamber edge flows under gravity to a production well located at the base of the chamber.

Until the 1970s gufas huge circular coracles of basketwork, coated with bitumen and capable of carrying up to 20 passengers were in regular use in the vicinity of Baghdad.

Water solubility in bitumen is measured at temperatures up to 493 K.