Sentence examples for profitable sand from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, the vast landscape of forests and lakes around Fort McMurray and the Athabasca river provided a fairly minor and barely profitable sand oil industry.

Only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have greater proven oil reserves than Canada, but 97% of Canada's 174 billion barrels are in oil sands, mostly in Alberta.In this section Deep secrets Lowbrow art The steam from below ReprintsIn the past decade high oil prices have made the oil sands profitable to exploit.

The FSEIS assumes higher oil prices which would make tar sands project more profitable and more likely use more expensive transportation options like rail.

Tar sands production is very profitable at current crude prices, and new processes are reducing the costs.

And with fines inexpensive and oversight lax, oil companies find it more profitable to patch up holes and pour sand on spills — or do nothing at all — than invest in quality infrastructure and comprehensive cleanups, according to activists.

[A5.] Alberta's Fortunes Grow as Oil Sands Are Squeezed As oil prices have risen, the process of squeezing oil from oil sands in Western Canada has become profitable and Alberta is experiencing a boom of new prosperity.

He said he was proud to publish any book — whether profitable or not — that managed "to push our culture one grain of sand forward".

There are several reasons that companies like Chevron and ExxonMobil are now rushing to develop the tar sands, the most obvious being that it's increasingly profitable to do so.

The other probable winners are the Canadian producers from that country's extensive tar sands which, at even half present crude prices, are profitable to exploit.

Other analysts have also begun to see promise in oil sands, despite the widespread view that traditional oil wildcatting is still more profitable.

Transforming tar sands into crude is costly as well as dirty: the process only becomes profitable with oil prices in the $60-85 range orangeher.