The ingredient that might have harmed the health of Native Americans is called bitumen. It is a form of raw petroleum that was quite handy in the days before glue and plastic. The sticky substance ...

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 ...

Alberta has no choice but to export raw bitumen from the oilsands to the U.S. for processing, Premier Ed Stelmach said Tuesday, following criticism from former premier Peter Lougheed. High costs ...

Bitumen, also known as pitch or tar, dates back to Biblical times and can be used to build roads and roofs in its raw form, or be processed into fuels in oil refineries.

Raw bitumen from Alberta's oil sands is the consistency of asphalt at room temperature and each barrel needs to be diluted with one third condensate, which typically trades at a premium to crude ...

Alberta shouldn't allow raw bitumen from the oilsands to be shipped to the United States for processing, former premier Peter Lougheed said Tuesday. Lougheed told delegates at an energy conference ...

Black argues that diesel and other refined products would be easier to clean up than heavy raw bitumen. "Canada has to get its resources to market somehow. What I'm proposing is the best for ...

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 ...

Suncor Energy has been diligently exploring options to replace approximately 200,000 barrels per day of raw bitumen supply from Base Mine, its largest oil sands mine, which is projected to run out ...

Now Lougheed opposes the Keystone pipeline, which promises to bring nearly a million barrels of bitumen a day to the Texas refineries, for several economic reasons. To him the export of raw ...

The 35-million-dollar project started two years ago and has three facilities – a three-in-one project stocking raw bitumen, production of Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB) and Emulsions.