Sentence examples for sand bitumen from inspiring English sources

On top of the recession's effect on plans for the oil sands, defenders argue that Obama's cap-and-trade proposals would severely impact Canadian oil production because the proposal will heavily penalise those who ship Canadian oil sand bitumen to the United States, given that refining the raw bitumen is so energy-intensive.

The feedstock was Athabasca tar sand bitumen with density of 1007.7 kg/m3 and viscosity 1,000,000 mPas measured at 20 °C.

But replacing Arabia's tainted oil with tar sand bitumen is no pipeline to energy security.

At the same time, the Obama administration is reviewing the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would send more oil sands bitumen to American refineries and correspondingly increase the amount of American petroleum coke.

Given higher fuel prices in Europe, according to a Greenpeace report from May, much of the oil sands bitumen is likely to be refined and sold as diesel to European drivers.

Without such proposed, but stalled, pipeline projects as Northern Gateway in Canada or Keystone XL in the United States, more tar-sands bitumen cannot get to markets—or so they thought.

That has made it harder to win American approval of the Keystone XL pipeline planned to carry tar-sands bitumen across the border.Some of the problems noted in 2003 have been tackled.

Despite the regular visits to Detroit by ships to take away the petcoke, the oil sands bitumen refinery there is producing the material at a rate which means the waterfront pile continues to grow.

OTTAWA — A pipeline for exporting oil sands bitumen to Asia-bound tankers was dealt a severe blow on Friday when the province of British Columbia urged a federal review panel to reject the $6 billion plan.

Did these donations have anything to do with the investigation found, Clinton's State Department approving the Alberta Clipper, a controversial pipeline carrying large amounts of tar-sands bitumen from Alberta to Wisconsin?

In recent years, a group of progressives won election to the city council and the mayor's seat, despite huge expenditures by Chevron, the corporation that also brought you gigantic oil spills onshore in Ecuador and offshore in Brazil, massive contamination from half a century of oil extraction in Nigeria, and Canadian tar-sands bitumen sent by rail to the Richmond refinery.