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Oil sands impacts cannot be viewed in isolation

Viewed alone, water consumption in any industry looks bad. Just ask Levi Strauss & Co.

September content for your viewing pleasure

It's back to bitumen this month with Alberta Oil's oil sands report

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Anatomy of Alberta’s worst oil-well blowout

Atlantic No. 3 woke up a sleeping giant for regulators and policymakers alike

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At 50, OPEC continues to reap big rewards

The aging cartel marks its golden anniversary having netted $8 trillion in export revenue

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Inside NYMEX and the frenzied world of futures trading

Gambling and economics determines oil's value on the world's largest trading floor

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Why gas from the Mackenzie Delta still matters

Knowledge brokers Ziff Energy Group remain bullish on northern gas

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Curing oil sands blights with high technology

The CANMET Energy Technology Centre in Devon leads a bitumen belt brain trust

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Oil patch history is writ small for a retired roughneck

Models of oilfield hardware offer a close-up look at very big equipment

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Offshore drilling moves to the deep end

The proportion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico first began to outpace drilling at shallower depths in the early 1980s, figures from the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service show. The gap grew steadily until the late-1990s, when production from deepwater plays rose dramatically. The sudden increase in deepwater activity lends credence to the argument that oil is increasingly harder and more expensive to access.

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