U.S. Oil Sands has started drilling in Utah -- even though the tar-sands industry in Canada is struggling to make a profit.

The Sierra Club and others are urging companies to procure fuel from refineries that don't use oil sands crude.

Petroteq claims to have a patented process to extract crude oil from tar sands in a cost-effective, yet environmentally friendly manner using a proprietary cocktail of solvents.

Read Our Undercover Correspondent’s First Dispatch from the Tar Sands The majority of oil-related work happens north of town.

Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, and industry is salivating over it Oil companies are buying rights to extract crude from bitumen carbonates in Alberta, even though it's hard-to-reach ...

Like a supertanker unable to make quick turns, production from tar sands in the Canadian oil patch continues to increase despite prices so low producers have to sell their output at a loss. The ...

Oil companies and the State Department assert that increasing the supply of Canada’s tar sands is in America’s strategic and economic interest. Oil from tar sands replaces diminishing supplies from ...

Fossil Fuels A Dilbit Primer: How It’s Different from Conventional Oil Bitumen extracted from tar sands has the consistency of peanut butter and must be diluted to flow through pipelines.

The economic struggles of Canadian tar-sands operations have been in the news for more than a year now, with falling prices and rising supplies making it increasingly difficult to turn a profit on ...

There’s No Hiding From Tar Sands Oil Keystone XL pipeline or no, America is awash with the dirty oil from Canada. Here’s our interactive map revealing the refineries near you.

Oil-spill Cleanup Safety Questionable — and Questions Unanswered An existing tar sands pipeline running through the United States from Alberta, called Keystone 1, was billed as the safest pipeline in ...

From the air, the oil-bearing tar sands mines of northern Alberta, Canada, the largest industrial project on Earth, look flat. But that’s only because they lie in scattered cuts across a forested ...