A new report blames four runaway bitumen leaks at facilities operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) on the company’s oil sands extraction process and geological factors. The findings ...

Sergey Sitnov, Senior Research Associate of the Laboratory, is one of the seven 2017 Russian Presidential Grant winners from KFU. His work at the laboratory focuses on finding ways to increase ...

A study published in the Journal of Cannabis Research evaluated the impact of various oil-based extraction methods from cannabis plants. The researchers specifically used medium-chain triglycerides ...

Oil forms when organic material – the remains of living things – gets compressed and heated under layers of sediment. Some social media users are claiming this process occurs as quickly as the ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Barbara R. Shook, senior reporter-at-large at the Energy Intelligence Group, about how low oil prices need to go to make "unconventional oil" extraction too expensive.

Development of a new automated test method to measure the wax appearance temperature (WAT) of opaque crude oils with 1.0° C. precision used a modified version of American Society of Testing and ...