Utah has an estimated 12-19 billion barrels of bitumen underground in the desert. Even strip mining would be expensive and prohibitive. US Oil Sands, Inc.

In 2010, U.S. Oil Sands won permits from Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining to mine nearly 6,000 acres for bitumen, a thick, tarry substance ripped from the earth in clay-like clumps and then ...

Davey: Utah has over 50 percent of America's oil sands resources, with over 30 billion barrels of oil which is relatively easy to develop – surface to 400 feet. There are other oil sands ...

The nation’s first oil sands project is one step closer to reality after a Utah state administrative law judge ruled Utah’s Division of Water Quality properly approved a proposal to mine and process ...

U.S. Oil Sands Inc. said it raised $11 million from a stock offering and will get started this summer on plans to dig a 62-acre pit in an area of eastern Utah that contains gooey bitumen, a tar ...

U.S. Oil Sands, which has acquired the rights to produce tar sands at mines on 50 square miles of land between Salt Lake City and Moab, Utah, plans to produce 2,000 barrels of oil per day by the ...

VERNAL, Utah — Utah is a yawn amid the drilling frenzy that has upended the energy picture in recent years. It accounts for just one of every 100 barrels of oil produced nationwide.

U.S. Oil Sands, a Canadian company, has leased about 32,000 acres in Utah for tar sands mining. Credit: David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News MOAB, UTAH—To the ancient Indians who roamed the ...

Think oil sands and Alberta comes to mind. Don’t tell that to Canadian oilmen in Utah, though, who expect to begin production at the first commercial oil sands mine in the United States by year ...

Next year a small Toronto-based energy company plans to begin selling oil made from what it’s calling “America’s first environmentally friendly oil sands project.” MCW Energy Group has ...

A Canada-based company has begun commercial production of oil from oil sands in a Utah facility near the Colorado border west of Rangely and has begun delivering it to market. Petroteq Energy ...