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- Slower production growth, and declining GHG intensity, limited oil sands absolute emissions growth in 2024 - September 2024
- Higher and more stable oil prices are pushing oil sands growth higher…again - May 2024
- Canadian oil sands production and emissions history, Feburary 2024
- The North American Advantage: Secure oil and gas production, December 2023
- Greenhouse gas intensity of western Canadian condensate, May 2023
- Appendix A: Detailed methodology for GHG emission intensity estimation of western Canadian condensate available upon request.
- Appendix B: Data Quality Metric assessment available upon request.
- Resumption of Canadian oil sands helped lower emission intensity in 2021, November 2022
- Assessing the adequacy of western Canadian crude oil export capacity, September 2022
- Carbon capture and storage and the Alberta oil sands, July 2022
- The trajectory of oil sands GHG emissions: 2009-35, April 2022
- Appendix A: The trajectory of oil sands GHG emissions: 2009-35 - Data tables
- Appendix B: Data methodology available upon request.
- Canadian Crude Logistics, August 2021
- What is different about differentials? Understanding the price of oil in western Canada, December 2020
- The GHG intensity of Canadian oil sands production, July 2020
- All aboard: A view of Alberta curtailment, May 2019
- Four years of change: Oil sands cost and competitiveness in 2018, April 2019
- Looking north: A US perspective on Canadian heavy oil, December 2018
- Greenhouse gas intensity of oil sands production, September 2018
- Appendix A: Greenhouse gas intensity of oil sands production
- Appendix B: S&P Global method to upstream oil sands emission estimation is available upon request.
- The continued convergence of media & technology, September 2018
- Looking south: A Canadian perspective on the US Gulf Coast heavy oil market, April 2018
- Scenarios of Future Growth, January 2018
- A New Look Extracting economic value from the Canadian oil sands, November 2017
- Pipelines, Prices, and Promises: The story of western Canadian market access, April 2017
- Where Will Transportation Drive Global Oil (and Oil Sands) Demand
- The State of Canadian and US Climate Policy, August 2016
- The two pillars: The increasingly integrated US-Canadian oil trade, June 2016
- Oil Sands Costs and Competitiveness, December 2015
- Why the Oil Sands? How a remote, complex resource became a pillar of global supply growth, July 2015
- Crude by rail: The new logistics of tight oil and oil sands growth, December 2014
- Comparing GHG Intensity of the Oil Sands and the Average US Crude Oil, May 2014
- Appendix: Comparing GHG intensity of the oil sands and the average US crude oil, May 2014
- Oil Sands Economic Benefits: Today and in the future, January 2014
- Critical Questions for the Canadian Oil Sands, October 2013
- Energy Insight: Keystone XL Pipeline: No Material Impact on US GHG Emissions, August 2013
- Assessing Marine Transport for Oil Sands on Canada's West Coast, June 2013
- S&P Global comment: US State Department on Keystone XL Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, April 2013
- Extracting Economic Value from the Canadian Oil Sands: Upgrading and refining in Alberta (or not)?, March 2013
- Future Markets for Canadian Oil Sands, January 2013
- Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and US Oil Supply: Getting the Numbers Right – 2012 Update, November 2012
- Assessing Environmental Regulations in the Canadian Oil Sands, December 2011
- Major Sources of US Oil Supply: The Challenge of Comparisons, October 2011
- The Role of the Canadian Oil Sands in the US Market, June 2011
- Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and European Oil Supply: Getting the Numbers Right, April 2011
- Canadian Oil Sands Face US GHG Policy Uncertainty, April 2011
- Oil Sands Technology: Past, Present, and Future, January 2011
- Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and US Oil Supply: Getting the Numbers Right, September 2010
Also available are Frequently Asked Questions on this Special Report - The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply, April 2010
- Multi-client Study: Growth in the Canadian Oil Sands: Finding the New Balance, May 2009
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