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Information and links on a variety of technical aspects of mining & mineral exploration.
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NEWS  Increasing support for Alberta-B.C. pipelineFriday, November 20, 2009Support is growing for a pipeline that would carry Alberta oilsands products to the west coast. A report in the Globe and Mail says Enbridge is expected to announce solid commercial backing for the Gateway Pipeline early next year. read more » Geotechnical Engineering of Oil Sands TailingsFriday, November 13, 2009A fine paper at the Banff, Alberta conference on Tailings & Mine Waste is that by John Sobokowicz and Norbert Morgenstern. It is called “A Geotechnical Perspective on Oil Sands Tailings.” read more »NEWS  Suncor aims to sell up to C$4 bln in assets in 2010Friday, November 06, 2009CEO Rick George said. He made the remarks after Suncor, known for its dominance in northern Alberta's oil sands, reported a 64 percent drop in operating profit in its initial quarter with Petro-Canada operations integrated into its own, due to big drops read more » Global oil supply: Separating fact from fictionMonday, October 26, 2009Regardless of the claims of the U.S. Geological Survey and others of a trillion barrels of undiscovered oil, let's look at the recent history of finding giant and super-giant fields. The consistency of their contribution is largely the result of increased rates of extraction, not to new discoveries. As time passes, new discoveries are increasingly smaller, of lower quality and located in ever-more difficult operating environments. read more »NEWS  Suncor unveils new tailings pond technologyFriday, October 23, 2009Suncor Energy Inc. is moving forward on a new tailings pond technology that it believes will rapidly speed up its ability to reclaim the areas of northern Alberta it has strip mined as it extracts bitumen buried beneath the earth's surface. read more » Managing Costs - Core DrillingWednesday, September 30, 2009Sometimes the smallest products can make the biggest impact. While they don't carry $1 million price tags like some of the high technology capital equipment available on the market, coring consumables represent incremental cost over the life of a project that can save or lose a drilling contractor hundreds of thousands of dollars in ... read more » Mining Investment GuidesWednesday, July 15, 2009If you are looking for firms that invest in a diverse range of mining, resources, and oil and gas opportunities, the following guides by Thomas Su of Money Cat Consulting can help you find the information you need. read more » Frack Attack - Drilling Technique Under ScrutinyThursday, June 25, 2009Four years after a widely used but controversial oil and gas production technology was exempted from federal regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, Congress is taking another look at the process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. read more » Thank Goodness There's a Physicist in the CabinetMonday, June 01, 2009When Rep. Joe Barton asked the Nobel Prize winning Energy Secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, where oil comes from - he got a puzzling answer. read more » Oil Sands Effective Stress & AnalysisFriday, May 29, 2009A wise professor made a presentation that caputured an enduring fact and a recent change in tailings analysis and modeling. read more » Water Treatment Technologies for Oil Sands MiningThursday, May 28, 2009To produce oil from the oil sands field in Alberta, huge amount of water is used. Specifically, water is used to separate bitumen from the sand at a high water to oil ratio. read more » Alternative oilTuesday, March 24, 2009Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, which contains large amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which technology can extract liquid hydrocarbons. Similar to coal, it can be used directly as a fuel, or chemical processes can convert this kerogen in the oil shale to synthetic crude oil. read more » What lies beneath?Tuesday, March 24, 2009The Athabasca deposits in Canada are to date the world’s only oil sands mining area, yet with what is now an uncertain market with fluctuating oil prices many expansion and development projects have been put on hold. read more » ERCB Oil Sands Tailings RegulationsFriday, February 20, 2009Comments on the new Alberta ERCB regulations pertaining to oil sands tailings impoundment closure and reclamation. read more » Gord McKenna on Oil Sands Tailings ReclamationFriday, January 09, 2009One final triumph from the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference: a link to the presentation by Gord McKenna of BGC Engineering on Landscape Design for Oil Sands Tailings. read more » First International Oil Sands Tailings ConferenceTuesday, December 16, 2008The First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference was held in early December 2008 in Edmonton, Alberta. read more » Oil Sands Idle ThoughtsFriday, July 18, 2008I am in Fort McMurray to do real engineering work at one of the oil sands mines. I am here to test new technology to close the mines and protect the environment. read more » Suncor Oil Sands MiningFriday, April 4, 2008At the SME meeting in Salt Lake City in late February 2008, I chanced into one of those presentations that justify conference attendance. This one was by Erik Jones talking about mine productivity initiatives at Suncor Energy’s Alberta operations. read more » Unconventional CrudeWednesday, November 07, 2007The 12 November 2007 issue of the New Yorker includes an article called Unconventional Crude by Elizabeth Kolbert. read more » Oil SandsWednesday, March 14, 2007A CBC news article from January mentioned that the United States wants Canada’s oil sands project to be expanded by five times its current capacity. read more » SNC vs. SuncorFriday, February 23, 2007A mining engineer without a lawyer at his side is half naked. A mining company without its posse of lawyers is left in the dust. read more » Oil Sands GeostatisticsMonday, February 12, 2007The Canadian Institute of Mining’s CIM Magazine follows a delightful approach to presenting high quality technical papers: it simply does not present them. read more » Oil Sands TaxationFriday, February 02, 2007The news report reads (in part): “Alberta's new premier-designate wants more of the oilsands to be processed within Alberta instead of being transported as a crude resource to the United States." read more » Oil Sands ReclamationFriday, November 17, 2006Can we reclaim the oil sands operations? A pretty obvious question. Many, many answers. I surveyed 350 Google hits from the key words “oil sands reclamation.” read more » |
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