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Sun Oct 12

• Oil drop may hit supply growth, keep boom and bust | Reuters: The plunge in oil prices toward $80 a barrel will curtail oil companies' ; spending on new projects, limit production growth and perpetuate the industry' s tendency for boom and bust. High cost projects will be cut first and all eyes are on Canada's oil sands projects. Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of France's Total said last month that $90 a barrel crude was needed to generate a 12.5 percent return on his oil sands plans. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to cut its 2015 oil sands production forecast by around 600,000 barrels of crude a day (bpd) to 2.8 million bpd, compared with around 1 million bpd today. "Some of the deep water projects we see in Nigeria and Angola have breakeven prices of $80/barrel or slightly higher," Derek Butter, head of corporate analysis at Wood Mackenzie, said. Oil companies will need crude around $78 a barrel in 2009 to meet dividend and spending obligations, analysts at JP Morgan said.

Thu Sep 25

• t r u t h o u t | Tar Sands - the New Toxic Investment

Mon Sep 15

• New process extracts pure hydrogen from contaminant in unrefined oil: Commercial-sca le process to extract and reuse pure hydrogen from the hydrogen sulfide -a natural contaminant of unrefined oil, including oil sands, is one step closer to reality thanks to a collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory and Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. (KPM) of Kingston, Ontario. Argonne and KPM researchers have invented a molten copper reactor, an innovative process technology that is more energy-efficie nt than existing methods. Moreover, the pure hydrogen gas stream that it extracts can be used to upgrade and clean crude oil and petroleum products and aid in a number of refining processes. In the reactor, hydrogen sulfide gas is first separated from the crude oil stock, using technology already in place. This gas is then bubbled though molten copper, which releases pure hydrogen. The hydrogen is then captured for use as a valued product. As the sulfur reacts with the copper, the copper is gradually turned into copper sulfide.
• Investors press for disclosure of tar sands' climate risk: investors reccomend environmental impacts are taken into account

Fri Sep 12

• An urban legend to comfort America: oil is oil, even if it is not oil " Fabius Maximus

Fri Sep 5

• Tar Sands, The Selling of Alberta : Doc Zone : CBC-TV

Tue Aug 19

• Mutated fish alarms delegates at northern Alberta water gathering

Fri Aug 8

• The Oil Drum | Unconventional Oil: Tar Sands and Shale Oil - EROI on the Web, Part 3 of 6
• Canadian Oil: At What Price? : TreeHugger

Tue Aug 5

• Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth : TreeHugger

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