Alberta's tar sands are part of a geologic unit called the McMurray Formation. It is made up of layers of sandstone and shale and dates back about 100 million years to a geologic period called the ...

Enbridge, a Canadian company, seeks to build a pipeline to carry synthetic crude oil from Alberta, Canada, into southern Illinois [news story, Jan. 16]. Of the many problems with this project, the ...

Whatever the fate of Keystone XL, Canada has several options on the table for getting tar sands oil to market and helping to ensure the Alberta oil industry’s future.

The detriments of the tar sands operations have been getting more attention globally in recent months, due in part to a controversial pipeline agreement between the U.S. and Canada.

Canada’s crude output was expected to increase by 175,000 bpd in 2023 and another 200,000 bpd in 2024, with some outlooks suggesting that annual oil sands production alone could rise by around ...

Rapidly-spreading forest fires that caused the frantic evacuation of about 90,000 people from the tar-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, seemed to be quieting down several days ago.

A wildfire that forced thousands of residents from their homes in western Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray earlier this month is now under control, Alberta officials said Wednesday.

ConocoPhillips is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in retrofitting its Billings refinery to handle the heavier, dirtier Canadian crude flowing from the oil sands of northern Alberta.

Environmentalists contend tar sands oil is more corrosive to pipes and harder to clean up than conventional oil, which Enbridge disputes. Experts with the National Academy of Sciences are studying ...

Alberta's sprawling tar sands region holds the second largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia, but investors lured by the promise of black gold should think twice about the ...