CALGARY (Reuters) -Giant shovels, driverless trucks and a dog-like robot have all helped Canada's oil sands companies including Imperial Oil and Suncor become some of North America's lowest-cost oil ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

As Canadian oil sands companies pour money into optimization and efficiency, S&P Global Commodity Insights has upgraded its 10-year output for a 15% increase in oil sands production by 2030. In a ...

Canada’s oil sands industry reduced its emissions per barrel for the sixth straight year in 2023, even as one growing portion of the sector moved in the opposite direction, according to new Alberta ...

Wildfires in northern Alberta continued to disrupt some oil sands operations as Cenovus Energy demobilized this week non-essential staff at its Sunrise project as a precaution amid heat and wildfire ...

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Total SA launched a C$617 million ($510 million) unsolicited takeover bid late Tuesday for UTS Energy Corp , a Canadian oil sands firm whose major asset is a 20 percent stake in ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Marathon Oil Corp.'s search to find a joint venture partner in the Canadian oil sands could be a stickier situation than the company had expected, according to analysts, ...