Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has commissioned its new ‘Bitumen production train’, powered by ‘Biturox’ technology from Pörner of Austria. A media statement said that this unit, ...

N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage ...

MRPL launched a new bitumen unit in Mangaluru. The unit uses Biturox technology from Austria. It doubles MRPL's bitumen production to 150,000 metric tonnes annually. The unit will produce VG30 and ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

HOUSTON, May 2-- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has let an engineering, procurement, and construction support services contract to Technip for expansion of the delayed coking unit at its Horizon ...

Northstar's Bitumen Extraction and Separation Technology (BEST) uses a proprietary process to separate the liquid asphalt. VANCOUVER — Northstar Clean Technologies is a $45 million clean technology ...

The PAVELAB50 Automatic Closed-System Asphalt Analyzer is designed to separate bitumen, filler and aggregates from asphalt mixtures by closed-system solvent extraction. The PAVELAB50 Automatic ...

Petro-Canada expects the first phase of the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta to have a capital cost of $14.1 billion (Can.) and produce through mining 160,000 b/d of bitumen, which then the ...