• The Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) was an Alberta crown corporation to promote the development and use of new technology for...
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    1980s by the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority and fortuitously coincided with improvements in directional drilling technology that made...
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    The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, located in northeastern...
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  • 2024: Alberta Gas Trunk Line Company (AGTL) Alberta Government Telephones Alberta Liquor Control Board (ALCB) Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority...
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  • Steam-assisted gravity drainage (category Bituminous sands)
    the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA), a crown corporation created by Alberta Premier Lougheed to promote new technologies for...
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    founding chairperson of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority. He was a Member of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Global Energy...
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    The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray...
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    Pembina oil field, Alberta Athabasca oil sands, Alberta Peace River oil sands, Alberta Cold Lake oil sands, Alberta Duvernay Formation, Alberta (shale oil and...
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  • inventor William Taciuk and the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority. The research and development of the ATP technology started in 1970. In...
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  • JACOS parent company JAPEX participated in the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) pilot...
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    the 1940s. Alberta—with an estimated 1.4 billion cubic metres of unconventional oil resource in the bituminous oil sands—leads Canada as an oil producer...
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    "cheap oil", explaining that as oil prices rise, unconventional sources become economically viable. He predicted that, "[t]he tar sands of Alberta alone...
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    Edited by Loren G. Hepler and Chu Hsi. Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority. Edmonton, Alberta, October 1989] McMillan-Mcgee Corporation...
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    exploitation of oil sands began in 1967. Alberta is renowned for its natural beauty, richness in fossils and for housing important nature reserves. Alberta is home...
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  • Cenovus Energy (category Oil companies of Canada)
    (pronounced se-nō-vus) is a Canadian integrated oil and natural gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Its offices are located at Brookfield Place...
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  • Underground Test Facility (category Bituminous sands of Canada)
    60 km Northwest of Fort McMurray. In the 1980s, Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) initiated an extensive program to evaluate...
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  • Western Canadian Select (category Athabasca oil sands)
    2015). "The Search for the Lowest-cost Barrel and the Future of the Alberta Oil Sands". Alberta Oil Magazine. Retrieved September 7, 2015. Jameson Berkow...
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    Ownership". Alberta Government. "Conventional Oil (Timeline)". Alberta Government. "How the West was Won: Alberta's First Oil Well". Alberta Energy Regulator...
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    Suncor Energy (category Bituminous sands of Canada)
    integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Suncor...
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  • tires, paints and electronics. Alberta Recycling Management Authority reports to the Minister of Alberta Environment. Alberta Used Oil Management Association...
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    Keystone Pipeline (category Crude oil pipelines in the United States)
    an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and, as of March 2020, the Government of Alberta. It...
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  • Harry Gunning (category Presidents of the University of Alberta)
    them being the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority. Gunning became President of the University of Alberta in 1974. He was a strong president...
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    Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (category Oil fields of Canada)
    coal. Of the provinces and territories within the WCSB, Alberta has most of the oil and gas reserves and almost all of the oil sands. The WCSB is considered...
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  • Grosmont Formation (category Geologic formations of Alberta)
    back to the 1970s, when the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority and industry partners Union Oil Canada and Chevron Resources Canada conducted...
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    Retrieved 2008-08-20. "Schlumberger Acquires Raytheon Technology for Oil Extraction from Oil Shale and Oil Sands". Green Car Congress. 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2012-02-14...
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  • cars plus. The Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Project was developed by Shell Canada for use in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project. It is cited as being the...
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    Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada are inactive oil or gas well sites that have no solvent owner that can be held legally or financially accountable for the...
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  • the "Mahogany Research Project." The amount of oil that can be recovered during retorting varies with the oil shale and the technology used. About one...
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    20% share. The project is based within the Athabasca Oil Sands Project near Fort McMurray, Alberta. It is the world's first CCS project on a commercial-scale...
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    Petroleum coke (category Oil refining)
    production of synthetic crude oil (syncrude) from bitumen extracted from Canada's tar sands and from Venezuela's Orinoco oil sands. In petroleum coker units...
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