CALGARY, Alberta - Production in the Canadian oil sands is likely to increase at a much faster clip than the industry currently projects, an analyst said, putting more pressure on pipeline companies to vastly expand capacity out of Alberta. The forecast comes as companies plot billions of dollars worth of new pipeline routes to stave off costly bottlenecks. The latest is Enbridge Inc's

State regulators testified Wednesday that the first U.S. commercial oil sands operation won't pollute groundwater because the proposed strip mine is in an arid region of eastern Utah with no groundwater except at extreme depths.

Just two days after it finished buying Flint Energy Services Ltd., URS Corp. got a pipeline contract worth up to $130 million through Flint, now its "Oil & Gas division." URS' new division was chosen as the pipeline construction contractor for a project in Alberta's oil sands near Fort McMurray. In February, URS agreed to buy Calgary's Flint for about $225 million. San Francisco-based URS (NYSE: URS) will oversee construction of pipelines both above and below ground, for a total of some 70 kilometers

When Business Insider decided to follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

URS Corp. said Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract worth up to $130 million for work on an oil sands project in Alberta, Canada.The San Francisco engineering and construction company said that

URS Corporation NYSE URS announced that the Company39s Oil Gas division has been selected as the pipeline construction contractor for a major Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage SAGD oil sands p

Washington's political wars rarely match reality back home. So when politicians and K Street lobbyists peddle the $7 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you can bet the But outside the rarefied circles of Washington, voices of a different world hold sway, voices of people who care more about community health and their children's future than the

The Syncrude mine may not have been the first major oil operation in the Athabasca Oil Sands, but it was the second and it still stands as one of the region's dominant oil sand projects.

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries, a 10-week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.