The United States imports approximately one million barrels of oil per day from Canada, which is about twice the amount that it gets from Saudi Arabia. A large percentage of that oil comes from tar ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Oil sands, or tar sands, are sand and rock material that ...

Shell Canada recently outlined growth initiatives for the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), to increase bitumen production to between 270,000 and 290,000 barrels a day by 2010. Canada's overall oil ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 is inviting trade media to two forums on the use of recycled materials for engineered products and highway applications. The first workshop ...

Improving America’s infrastructure has been a major priority for the Obama Administration, with a lot of money going into repairing the country’s roads and bridges. The problem is that currently most ...

SAND is in high demand. In some parts of the world, people are going to increasingly great lengths to get their hands on the golden grains. A “sand mafia” in India intimidates locals in order to ...

Dunham’s Asphalt Services’ plant has been growing steadily for a decade, but a pending acquisition will allow the company to control its product from the beginning of the manufacturing process to its ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Cierra Murry is an expert in banking, credit cards, investing, loans, mortgages, and real estate. She is a ...