TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2013) - MCW Energy Group (TSX VENTURE: MCW) (MCW.V) ("MCW"), a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction ...

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - Dec 27, 2013) - MCW Energy Group (TSX VENTURE: MCW) (MCW.V) ("MCW"), a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction ...

The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

CALGARY — The Thai energy company that collapsed an oilsands joint venture with Norway’s Statoil ASA early this year is investing in a technology touted to produce bitumen without using water and with ...

Petro-Canada expects the first phase of the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta to have a capital cost of $14.1 billion (Can.) and produce through mining 160,000 b/d of bitumen, which then the ...

In 2016 the government turned its attention to bitumen – also known as asphalt, which is used in road-surfacing – placing the country’s large standalone deposits of the hydrocarbon mixture at the ...

We should be finding the most lucrative markets for our bitumen and charging an appropriate rate to extractors, writes Andrew Leach Yes, of course—mostly. Value-added in the strict economic sense ...