Increased pipeline movement of raw bitumen production from Canada to the US could mitigate North America's vulnerability to crude supply disruptions and require expansion of existing pipelines or ...

Environmentalists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline say it would transport dirty Canadian crude through the heartland of America, only so it can be refined on the Gulf Coast. But that's not a bad ...

CALGARY, Alberta, May 5 (Reuters) - A growing share of Canadian oil-by-rail traffic is made up of tough-to-ignite undiluted heavy crude and raw bitumen, say industry executives, as companies scramble ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Western Canada's first crude-by-rail unit train terminal is set to start transporting 50,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude to the U.S. market next month, the ...

President Obama is correct when he says there are few US jobs created by Keystone XL and that it provides little energy security or economic benefit for the US which shoulders much of the ...

Prominent Canadian economist Robyn Allan made waves in Canada last year with papers claiming that rapid oil sands growth would do more economic harm than good for her country. She also warned that ...

Propelled by the boom in oil sands and tight oil production, condensates, an ultra-light oil, are emerging as an ever more important element of the energy industry. The increasing prevalence of ...

THE battle over a proposed pipeline to ferry raw bitumen took a new turn last week when environmental groups filed a lawsuit claiming that TransCanada Corporation has illegally begun construction on ...

GOIL Company Limited steps into the production of bitumen, a venture Mr Kwame Osei Prempeh, GOIL Managing Director, described as a strategy to widen its portfolio and consolidate gains already made in ...