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A Primer on Alberta’s Oil sands Royalties [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2015 Fulfilling its campaign promise, the new NDP government announced a review of Alberta’s royalty framework in June 2015. The province receives royalty revenue from three main sources – natural gas, crude oil, and oil sands.
Sarah Dobson
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Advanced Spectroscopic Characterization of Synthetic Oil from Oil Sands via Pyrolysis: An FTIR, GC–MSD, and NMR Study [PDF]
MoleculesThis paper presents a modern spectroscopic characterization of the synthetic oil from oil sands of Beke, Munaily-Mola, and Dongeleksor. The pyrolysis process was carried out at temperatures up to 580 °C with a controlled heating rate, and the products ...
Ainura Yermekova +7 more
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Effect of Methyl Silicone Oil to Moisture Resistance of Sodium Silicate Sands by Microwave Hardening [PDF]
Archives of Foundry Engineering, 2022 The sodium silicate sands hardened by microwave have the advantages of high strength, fast hardening speed and low residual strength with the lower addition of sodium silicate. However, the sodium ion in the sands will absorb moisture from the atmosphere,
Huafang Wang +4 more
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Energy Strategy Reviews, 2022 As a party to the Paris Agreement, Canada has an ambitious climate target of net-zero emissions by 2050. The country also holds the world's third largest oil reserves in the Alberta oil sands.
Candelaria Bergero +10 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Heavy oil is an important unconventional oil resource with huge availability worldwide, which also forms the primary oil source in Fengcheng oilfield, XinJiang, China.
Hemin Yuan +3 more
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Impact of Athabasca oil sands operations on mercury levels in air and deposition [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 Oil sands upgrading facilities in the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) in Alberta, Canada, have been reporting mercury (Hg) emissions to public government databases (National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)) since the year 2000, yet the relative ...
A. Dastoor +6 more
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Energies, 2021 As Canadian crude bitumen production from oil sands has increased in recent decades, the nation’s oil and gas industry has become a significant contributor to national greenhouse gas emissions.
Rui Xing +4 more
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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022 Study region: The 140,329 km2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased, reaching over 80,000 metric tonnes yr−1 in ...
R. Kelman Wieder +6 more
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Research as reconciliation: oil sands and health. [PDF]
CMAJHoward C +8 more
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Alberta oil sands development [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a ubiquitous class of hundreds of organic compounds composed of two or more aromatic rings that are released naturally and from human activities. Natural sources of PAHs include forest fires, oil seeps, and volcanic eruptions; anthropogenic sources include burning of fossil fuels and wood, production of coke ...
John P, Giesy +2 more
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