Some tar sands oil trades at a discount to WTI and thus Brent, which means that you can't get the benchmark price for it. This March 26, 2013 Reuters report tell us what Canadian crudes are ...

Canadian oil sands producers, facing a double whammy of low oil prices and higher taxes in Alberta, are slashing spending, suspending production, cutting jobs and halting shareholder dividends ...

The first "tar sand strip mine" was started by Great Canadian Oil Sands (now Suncor) in 1967. The Syncrude mine, among the largest mines in the world, followed in 1978. The Albian Sands mine ...

Continuing the use of tar sands oil, ... Opponents of Canadian oil sands development become alarmed by that kind of analysis. "Once any company understands what the tar sands are, ...

While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Bay Area’s five refineries have quietly moved toward transporting controversial Canadian tar sands crude ...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported a new half-billion-dollar stake in Suncor Energy Inc., which started the Canadian tar sands oil industry, after Chairman Warren Buffett and his deputies spent the most ...

Exxon and its Canadian affiliate, Imperial Oil, are not alone in developing the tar sands, which the energy industry touts as a secure source of crude for North America.

Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar Sands Spills Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil ...

Most of the new crude will come from the tar sands of northern Alberta, which are lousy with oil-rich bitumen. But extracting and refining that bitumen is lousy for the environment.

The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary ...