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Titanium Corporation receives patent for improved solvent recovery from oil sands tailings

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Titanium Corporation Inc. has secured what it calls a critical patent for its innovative technology which recovers hydrocarbon diluents (solvents) from oil sands tailings. Heavy minerals exist in Alberta’s oil sands in minor quantities. Earlier post.). Dr. Moran also collaborated with Dr.

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Canada oil sands producers form alliance to improve environmental performance

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Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation. The released water is recovered and recycled.

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Shell to proceed with Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the oil sands

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Shell will proceed with the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada. billion Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture owners (Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil) and with support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta.

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Carbon Capture at Totals Joslyn Oil Sands Project Not Likely Until Around 2020

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Total will not use carbon capture technology in the first phase of its Joslyn North Mine oil sands project, citing excessive cost. In 2009, the company suggested it was considering carbon capture and storage in its oil sands projects in Canada. In July, Total E&P Canada Ltd. Earlier post.).

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TOYO Engineering signs multi-year oil sands deal

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Japan-based TOYO Engineering Corporation, through its Canadian subsidiary TOYO Engineering Canada Ltd., TOYO has performed major projects in the global oil and gas industry for more than 50 years and, with the EPC scope of work for the JACOS Hangingstone Project, TOYO will be advancing its business in the Canadian oil and gas sector.

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Sustainable Development Canada Awards C$6M to Project to Reduce Water and Energy Consumption for Oil Sands Processing; Three Other Projects Supported to Reduce Energy and Environmental Impact of Oil Sands

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million) to the Petroleum Technology Research Centre ( PTRC ) in Regina, Saskatchewan and StatoilHydro Canada for a project to reduce water use and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions for in situ oil sands recovery by steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Burning natural gas produces CO 2 emissions. Other SDTC awards.

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Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

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TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. The tar sands are estimated (e.g.,

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