Marathon Oil has reached agreement to purchase Western Oil Sands, Inc. (TSX: WTO - News) in a transaction valued at CDN$6.5 billion (USD$6.2 billion, based on July 27 noon exchange rate).

Acceleware (TSX-V: AXE), a leading innovator in cutting-edge radio frequency (RF) power-to-heat technologies, directly targets process heat for critical minerals, amine regeneration […] ...

Chevron sold its oil sands and shale assets in Canada to Canadian Natural Resources for $6.5 billion as part of its portfolio optimization strategy.

A highway loops around a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2012. For years, the province has struggled with how to manage tailings, a by-product of oil sands mining.

Suncor Energy (NYSE:SU) will focus this year on cutting operating costs in its oil sands mining business, CEO Rich Kruger said Thursday, according to Reuters, as the company seeks to fix long ...

Previous studies, for example, have found that greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands surface mining operations were 64% higher than industry-reported figures; that the oil sands are one of the ...

The scale of Alberta’s oil sands operations, the world's largest industrial project, is hard to grasp. Especially north of Fort McMurray, where the boreal forest has been razed and bitumen is ...

Canada's Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre said he would accelerate approval of 10 resource projects if elected in the country's April 28 election, including the extension of a major ...