Literature Review of Naturally-Occurring Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Oil Sands Mining Reclamation Practice

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc.

• Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc. (Paragon) was contracted to complete a literature review of naturally-occurring petroleum hydrocarbons (NPHCs) in oil sands mining reclamation practice for the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Joint Industry Project (JIP) partners Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Syncrude), Imperial Oil Resources Ltd. (Imperial), and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL). The main objective of the COSIA JIP on PHCs in oil sands mining reclamation practice (the Project) is to provide capping thickness and cover design guidance to industry members. (As cited in Introduction.)

• Date created

  2018-08-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Land reclamation
  • Overburden
  • Oil sands mining
  • Petroleum hydrocarbons
  • Equivalent land capability

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-d1v3-dv92

• License

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