Oil sands are found primarily in the athabasca region of northern alberta, canada, and in areas. North sands developments limited free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. Fruit from the sands central eurasian paleoethnobotany. Our name emphasizes a broader interest and a longerterm approach to thinking about socioeconomic impacts on the community. Maps of tar sands development the purpose of these maps is to show all existing development related to tar sands throughout alberta for the first time. The oil sands community alliance osca has the mandate to pursue innovative solutions to build thriving communities and enable the responsible growth of canada oil sands.
The sands are naturally occurring mixtures of sand or clay, water and an extremely dense and viscous form of petroleum called bitumen. Oil sands corporation was a major story on the last day of august and into september. Although we are a new organization, osca was built on 20 years of cooperation by oil sands companies with municipal governments and stakeholders through predecessor organizations including the oil sands developers group osdg and the. The kearl oil sands project is an oil sands mine in the athabasca oil sands region at the kearl lake area, about 70 kilometres 43 mi north of fort mcmurray in alberta, canada. According to the canadian association of petroleum producers, oil sands now. Oil sands ltd overview free company information from. Technology petroteqs patented oil sands extraction technology is a breakthrough for the oil sands industry. Oilsands developers abandon nearly one million hectares of. The extraction and refining of oil sands produces 3070% more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil production, according to estimates by alex farrell and adam brandt published in the october 2007 issue of climatic change. The company had already launched its first oil sands pilot, at cold lake, and had joined a consortium of investors to form syncrude, a megaproject that would begin mining shallow sands in.
The chinahong kongcanada oil sands and new pipeline. The book largely reflects on the changes and large scale development that took place after the second world war. Another report seized attention in july, though primarily online. History of the oil sands regional aquatics monitoring. History of the oil sands regional aquatics monitoring program. Internet stories skewed the most harshly oil sands vol. Oil sands page content with access to ports and transload facilities across north america and direct service with short line railroads in the alberta industrial heartland, cp delivers you right into the energy transportation hub of alberta. Oil sands, or tar sands are an unconventional source of petroleum. In the context of heavy oil, an oil sand is a porous rock layer, often considered to be a mixture of sand, clay, water, and bitumen. The book is at its urgent best in chapters on the black market in sand and the sand mafias. This book is a lucid and fair presentation of history, context and science surrounding the tar sands controversy, and, as such a.
Critics brand the oil sands as the dirtiest oil on earth. Apr 15, 2010 bp defeated an agm resolution today from activist shareholders who wanted a full investigation into the companys plans to launch a major oil sands project in alberta, canada. This book is the first comprehensive account of the international labour organizations 100year history. Source oil sands experts for projects, phone consults and jobs. As such, it needs to be integrated with a national policy focused on environmental sustainability, social progress and fiscal balance. Currently, a few oil sands companies are in various stages of commercial development within the asphalt ridge deposit near vernal, the pr springs deposit in southern uintah county, and the sunnyside deposit in the book cliffs east of price. According to a study released in may 2009 by cambridge energy research associates,3 if oil sands development is maximized, canada could potentially account for as much as 37 percent of u. Sep 06, 2019 formulation and solution of a numerical model for oil sands tailings from slurry to desiccation. Environmentalists should end the charade over the oil sands. Oil sands, tar sands, or extra heavy oil is a type of bitumen deposit.
Oil sands produced 33 metric megatons mt of greenhouse gas emissions in 2006, he says. Oil recovered from tar sands is commonly referred to as synthetic crude and is a potentially significant form of fossil fuel. The silk road origins of the foods we eat by robert n. Here are detailed filebyfile descriptions of the contents of specific fonds andor links to scanned documents. The people, pipelines, and politics of the oil sands. Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or more technically bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Balancing a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and historical evidence, fruit from the. The carbon intensity of oil sands development poses other environmental health questions. The enbridge northern gateway pipeline and the energy east pipeline are critical components of this new oil sands, canada, and china axis. You can thank spin doctors for the invention of the less accurate, recent term oil sands. Most stories in the print media made no inferences in either direction, simply.
Oil sands developers abandon nearly 1m hectares of. With oil sands ambitions on a collision course with. At imc we recognize that oil sands projects are complex projects requiring specific expertise. The project is being developed in three phases with the first phase completed mid20. The purpose of these maps is to show all existing development related to tar sands throughout alberta for the first time.
Many of the maps also include approved andor proposed industrial development. Oil sands synonyms, oil sands pronunciation, oil sands translation, english dictionary definition of oil sands. There are about two dozen operating oil sands projects in alberta. Sand and rock material which contains crude bitumen a heavy, viscous form of crude oil. Albertas copious bitumen deposits let canada claim the worlds thirdlargest recoverable reserves of crude oil. Historically used by ancient egyptians, sumerians, and persians for waterproofing uses primary reserves found in canada alberta and venezuela 20% of us oil comes from canada, 50% oil sands alberta has 54,000 sq miles of oil sands containing 95% of canadian oil reserves and 75% of north american oil reserves extraction 4060m under the surface. Science news referred to it as one of the top ten mustread science books of 2019. The athabasca oil sands, also known as the athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern alberta, canada roughly centred on the boomtown of fort mcmurray. Middlings the fig 39 is a slide gate valve designed for shutoff and throttling in difficult andor high solids slurry service. This page describes the history of oil sands development from 1717 to the present. This includes project support related to infrastructure.
This valve is also designed to operate in a static column of solid particles and powders. Our more than 600 corporate members, from the largest major oil company to the smallest of independents, come from all segments of the industry. Taking another look at utahs tar sand resources from survey notes, january 2007. Greenpeace uk referred to the oil sands as one of the most destructive fuel sources possible. Gcos plant is considered a landmark in oil sands development. Oil sands definition of oil sands by the free dictionary. Oil sands, formerly referred to as tar sands, are sandy substrates that contain large deposits of bitumin, a kind of fossil fuel. Formulation and solution of a numerical model for oil sands tailings from slurry to desiccation. Im cs oil sands team has proven handson project development, commercial, regulatory, operating and management experience that has provided a range of support services to the natural resource industry for the past 20 years. Fyi, im not a greenpeace activist, i think we need the oil sands, i just think this book was incredibly disappointing.
It was the worlds first largescale commercial oil sands surface mining and refining plant and pioneered technology for bitumen extraction and upgrading. The great canadian oil sands plant the great canadian oil sands ltd. The oil sands are a mixture of sand, clay and water together with a dense and extremely sticky form of petroleum referred to as bitumen. Opponents of the oil sands warn that canada will pay a hefty price if it allows the development. More tar sands crude enters the worlds oil supply every year, but the. And despite exxons recent announcement that it had wiped off its books all 3. The oil sands developers group fort mcmurray tourism. Ten books to contextualize the alberta tar sands active history. A key to dutch history report by the committee for the development. While these peoples have been overlooked by history, they left a profound. Tar sands contain a very heavy form of petroleum, so tar is a more accurate.
Bitumen is a thick, viscous, black, sticky, tarlike form of liquid petroleum, but its physical consistency is comparable to that of cold molasses. Oil sands ltd free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. The american petroleum institute api is the only national trade association that represents all aspects of americas oil and natural gas industry. Project oilsand, also known as project oilsands, and originally known as project cauldron, was a 1958 proposal to exploit the athabasca oil sands in alberta via the underground detonation of up to 100 nuclear explosives. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, soaked with a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen. Albertas oil sands were formed millions of years ago, as tiny marine. The term is predominantly used in canada, where over 170 billion barrels of bitumen are estimated to be held by large oil sand deposits in the athabasca, cold lake and peace river regions of alberta. Andritz helps oil sands operations around the world bridge the gap between concept and production to help them achieve operational readiness quickly, safely, accurately, and ahead of the. It opens with an overview of grains and how the development of the farming of them led to the. There was no certainty whether a deal with china was good for the industry and canada or not. Natural bitumen is found in many countries, with the largest quantities in canada, kazakhstan and russia. Tar sand, also called bituminous sand, deposit of loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone that is saturated with highly viscous bitumen.
Chris bourdeau, a spokesperson for alberta environment, says this is an unfair characterization of the impact of oil sands. For the canadian oil sands, debate continues over the industrys environmental impacts and capacity for export. If you found five times as many links for oil sands that shows that the spin doctors are succeeding. Adults, teens, and kids are hanging out and enjoying naturebased games on unique pawdmounted obstacles that climb, zip, jump, and swing through the treetops. Oil recovered from tar sands is commonly referred to as synthetic crude and is a potentially significant form of fossil fuel a brief treatment of tar sands follows. North sands developments limited overview free company. The history of the book starts with the development of writing, and various other inventions such as paper and printing, and continues through to the modern day.
Personally, i think the wikipedia should stick with the more accurate term. Canada oil sands plan collapses over politics and economics. Greenpeace, platform and oil change international collaborated on a report questioning not the environmental impact of the oil sands, but their longterm economic viability. Canada oilsands plan collapses over politics and economics. It is likely that no authorities want to see all of the proposed development gathered in one place for others to. More than 70 others have regulatory approval, but have not been greenlighted by their proponents. This book is a lucid and fair presentation of history, context and science surrounding the tar sands controversy, and, as such a valuable book to think with. Oil sands developers cogeneration survey every year we administer a survey seeking information on every oil sands development project, including existing and forecast electricity demand and supply, on behalf of the oil sands developers group osdg, a nonprofit, industryfunded association, located in fort mcmurray, alberta, canada. Osca identifies issues from the perspective of those potentially impacted by projects, predicts and anticipates change, and develops strategies to proactively respond to the consequences of development. In 2009, ezra levants bestselling book shakedown revealed the corruption of canadas human rights commissions and was declared the most important public. The silk road origins of the foods we eat 9780520303638. Why canada needs to develop the oil sands the globe and mail.
Oil sands simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. These oil sands, hosted primarily in the mcmurray formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen a semisolid rocklike form of crude oil, silica sand, clay minerals, and water. Jul 28, 2017 the alberta oil sands contain an estimated 1. In general, unconventional forms of oil including oil sands mining are becoming important in global energy supply due to decreasing reserves of conventional oil. They are found in large amounts in many countries throughout the world, but are found in extremely large quantities in canada and venezuela. Oil sands are naturally occurring mixtures of clay, sand, water and extremely viscous bitumen. May 03, 2011 its sad that books like this are being sold as if they contain important information, its an opinion piece. Arabian sands is a 1959 book by explorer and travel writer wilfred thesiger. Bp defeated an agm resolution today from activist shareholders who wanted a full investigation into the companys plans to launch a major oil sands project in alberta, canada. The three creeks and reno areas in the peace river country is an agricultural area where the residents are becoming ill and the wildlife is leaving. The estimated worldwide deposits are more than 2 trillion barrels 320 billion cubic. Andritz capabilities for the oil sands industry giving access to the latest technologies for automation of individual systems or an entire oil sands plant. The international energy agency has warned that expanding canadian production hinges on transportation capacity. Andritz capabilities for the oil sands industry giving access to the latest technologies for automation of individual systems or an entire oil sands plant andritz helps oil sands operations around the world bridge the gap between concept and production to help them achieve operational readiness quickly, safely, accurately, and ahead of the.
History of the oil sands although the oil sands of alberta have only been developed commercially since the late 1960s, their documented history dates back nearly three centuries to 1717, when waupisoo of the cree people brought samples of the oil sands to the hudsons bay company trading post at fort churchill ercb 2008b. The chinahong kongcanada oil sands and new pipeline axis a. Osca was established in 20 with some 15 industry members whose assets are in the athabasca oil sands area. These and other deals have now enabled sinopec to have access to more than 300,000 acres of land with oil and natural gas deposits. In another sign the bloom is off the boom for the oilsands, the industry has returned almost one million hectares of northern alberta exploration leases to the province over the past two years abandoning an area far bigger than p. Travel in a dead world is a travel book, written by ralph a. A fresh history of the most important solid substance on earth, the literal. Nov 06, 20 the three creeks and reno areas in the peace river country is an agricultural area where the residents are becoming ill and the wildlife is leaving. In july 2015, one of the largest leaks in canadas history spilled 5,000 cubic metres of emulsion about 5 million litres of bitumen, sand and wastewater from a nexen energy pipeline at a long lake oil sands facility, south of fort mcmurray. Focused on the politics of tar sands development in alberta, particularly the inconsistent tensions between the federal and provincial. Bitumount pilot plant for oil sands extraction, ca. This project focuses on four of these foundational works to unravel the development of ichthyology the branch of zoology which studies fishes as a field of inquiry.
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