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 ...

VG grades are known by the Indian government as the preferred type of bitumen for road construction. In 1991, the Bureau of Indian Standards adopted a new grading method for bitumen, named viscosity ...

BRISTOL, RI--(Marketwire - Dec 4, 2012) - Westfall Manufacturing Company has introduced a static mixer for bitumen processing that mixes multiple diluents to the correct viscosity and density, ...

SCHENECTADY, NY--(Marketwired - March 29, 2016) - Auterra Inc., a catalyst and process development company, announced today that it has accomplished a long-standing oil sands industry goal -- ...

Solvents are used to increase production and reduce steam-to-oil ratio in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Variations of SAGD that use solvents, such as expanding solvent (ES) SAGD or ...

It can be termed as the building block of the pavements without which all the pavement materials would behave independently and thus will be deemed useless. Almost ninety percent of bitumen is used in ...

Despite significant proposed investments to develop Canada's heavy oil and bitumen reserves, production will continue to lag developments in Latin America. Besides limitations on labor in the ...