Essays on Athabasca

The considered company is Tesla Motors Inc. Tesla Motors is an American company established in 2003 in California, United States of America. Under the command of Elon Musk, the company manufactures and markets vehicles as well as components and batteries for other manufacturers such as Daimler or Toyota group. Taking the name of the physical and engineer Nikola Tesla develops induction motors and compact systems with a lower number of a conventional heat engine moving parts. Also, the company has its patents for manufacturing, which have been released to the public since 2014 (Bloomberg, 2016). The main objective of ...

Introduction

According to Alexander (2014), the oil sands of Alberta have around 1.7 to 2.7 trillion barrels of bitumen reserves. The recoverable oil resource in Canada is second only to that of the leading oil producer, Saudi Arabia. The vast oil reserves are capable of supplying Canada’s energy needs for over 500 years. Presently, nearly 40 percent of Canada’s oil production is generated from the oil sands (Alexander, 2014). They comprise mainly of bitumen mixed by sand and water. Alberta’s major oil sands are located in Cold Lake, Athabasca, and Peace River. Different deposits and areas have ...

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Alberta oil is one of the largest oil fields in the world. According to Simon Dyer, “The Canadian oil sands are the second largest proven oil reserve after Saudi Arabia” (Dyer, 2009). The commercial development of the Alberta oil sand had begun in the late 1960s. By the time World War I had arrived, and after the war was over, Canada was almost entirely dependent on oil from foreign countries. Canadians, after the war, began to wonder if the nation had any oil resources of their own. This interest led to the creation of the Alberta Research ...

South of the polar Northwest Territories’ (NT) barren tundra lies the province of Alberta. The Canadian boreal forest provides expansive acres of natural habitat landscape for an array of plant and animal species. Ecologically, the Albertan forests and bogs arrest vast quantities of carbon-based pollutants, and their extensive hydrological network filters and purify millions of gallons of water. The boreal is also home to Aboriginal Communities which depend directly on the forest resources for their livelihoods (Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program [RAMP]). Nevertheless, this immaculate natural paradise is central to one of the today’s most contentious issues about the ‘ ...

Introduction

Global warming and pollution has led companies to rethink their activities concerning green methods of production. Carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of global warming and the dangers of global warming have been documented for a long time. Governments have come up with restrictions on emissions, which have forced companies to re-think the way they do production. Quest carbon capture and storage project is one example of how companies are re-thinking their strategy and practice towards carbon emissions. This project is developed by Shell for its Athabasca oil sands project (AOSP) in Alberta. It is the first carbon capture ...

It is now evident that as the world has extracted most of the less polluting oil, attentions are now being turned on the kind of oil that leaves the environment with a lot of dirty sludge- oil sands. Oils sands are partially consolidated sandstones or loose sands that contain naturally occurring mixture of clay, sand and water, saturated with extremely viscous and dense form of petroleum that is technically referred to as bitumen. Colloquially, it is also known as tar, due to the similar appearance in color and odor. The Canadian crude oil sands or bitumen is very thick and ...

China’s Petroleum Investments in Canada

The foreign control of organizations located in Canada has been a topic of substantial debate in Canada. The preoccupations associated with the foreign control of organizations that were previously perceived as Canadian organizations have been steadily increasing over the past few decades. Many debate that half of all of the manufacturing operations in Canada are owned by foreign national originations. Conventionally, the foreign control of Canadian organizations was a heated issue in Canada during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s when it had been perceived that the United States investment in Canada had achieved hew record highs. The debates have ...

On the 27th September 2013, it was reported in the news that mining company BHP Billiton Limited had put on hold its expected project of expansion of the Olympic Dam owing to a challenge of resources. This brought to the fore the issue of competitive challenges in the company which is regarded as one of the biggest mining company in Australia and indeed, in the whole world. As a consequence, this paper seeks to analyze the company BHP Billiton Limited, also listed in the Australian Securities Exchange, with a view to exposing the competitive challenges that the company faces and how to ...