Canada's oil industry seeks game-changing technology

Washington

HARBIR Chhina helped develop the game-changing steam technology that allowed companies to tap the world's third-largest reserves in Canada's oil sands. It was a moonshot that paid off.

Now the oil-sands industry, still recovering from last month's wildfires, needs another one. Without a technological breakthrough like steam injection three decades ago, the flows that transformed the country's economy could slow to a trickle.