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 ...

A recent study used various gas oils and blends with residual heavy oils in order to evaluate the predictability of four different correlations. The gas oils differed substantially in their ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Greenvale Energy is on the path towards a commercial bitumen product after testwork at the Alpha project in Queensland recorded the highest conversion to date. GRV’s latest testwork shows company ...