Results of Component 1 of the Oil Sands Tailings Technology Deployment Roadmap. This report gathered available information on oil sands tailings, summarized the current state of knowledge and practice, and identified and described tailings management technologies used in the oil sands and around the world. Component 1 identified 101 unique technologies, broken into 8 main tailings schemes and categorized as pre-commercial or in commercial use.
Component 3 of the Oil Sands Tailings Technology Deployment Roadmap. This report intended to develop a method to evaluate the identified tailings technologies to determine their strengths and weaknesses, in light of specific criteria provided by Component 2, and then to evaluate the technologies using the developed methodology. Eight categories of technologies (mining, extraction and bitumen recovery, tailings processing, deposition and capping, water treatment, reclamation, and technology suites) were sub-divided into three categories (commercial, development, and research).