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Joint Canada/Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring begins summer air monitoring project

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A comprehensive environmental field study to gather information on air contaminants in the Wood Buffalo region in northeast Alberta, Canada (home to major oil sands projects) will occur from 12 August to mid-September 2013. Evaluate high-resolution air quality models for use in the oil sands region.

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McMaster University receives nearly $2.2M for oil sands tailings research

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million) to examine environmental processes in Alberta’ oil sands which could help speed up the land reclamation process for Syncrude. The project team, led by Lesley Warren, a professor in the School of Geography & Earth Sciences, was recruited by Syncrude Canada Ltd. Researchers at McMaster have received nearly C$2.2

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Genome Alberta Announces Funding for Genomics Project to Reduce Environmental Impact of Oil Sands Production

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Major funding for the projects came from Industry Canada through Genome Canada and the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology. Major funding for the projects came from Industry Canada through Genome Canada and the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology.

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UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

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A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. There, they used a 5-spot glass micromodel to evaluate the suitable agents for oil displacing in EOR.

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New petroleum refining lifecycle model finds the variability in GHG emissions from refining different crudes as significant as magnitude expected in upstream operations

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Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). The configurations are differentiated by the presence of gas oil hydrocracking; fluid catalytic cracking (FCC); delayed coking; and residual hydrocracking. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson.

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National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

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Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Now there will be a political process to tweak it to make it work for different interets—that’s part of the process. We did not shy away from controversy.

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Excelsior to Pilot Proprietary in Situ Combustion Bitumen Recovery Process

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Excelsior Energy Limited plans to test a proprietary in situ combustion bitumen-recovery process (Combustion Overhead Gravity Drainage, COGD) in a pilot project at its Hangingstone oil sands property in Alberta, Canada. Excelsior developed the COGD process in cooperation with Hot-Tec Energy Inc.,

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