Oil sand deposits in the world
12 Feb 2013 Canada's vast quantities of oil sands have been described variously as the world's third largest proven crude oil reserve, Canada's path to 22 Sep 2009 The oil sands are an issue of global importance. The Canadian oil sands are the second largest proven oil reserve after Saudi Arabia.1. 24 Dec 2015 Call for an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework on World Wetlands Day 2020 · Explore this subject. Wetlands International. Head Office The This page describes the history of oil sands development from 1717 to the present. were conducted by Sidney Ells, an engineer with the mining branch of the GSC. After World War 1, the Alberta Research Council (ARC) was formed by the
17 Oct 2017 FILE PHOTO - Giant dump trucks dump raw tar sands for processing at the Suncor tar sands mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta,
Most of the world's oil sand resources are located in Alberta, Canada. The Alberta Energy and Utility Board estimates that these contain about 1.6 trillion barrels of oil - about 14% of all of the world's total oil resource. The largest deposit is the Athabasca Oil Sands [1]. With 300,878 million barrels of proven reserves, Venezuela has the largest amount of proven oil reserves in the world. The country's oil is a relatively new discovery. Previously, Saudi Arabia had always held the number one position. The oil sand deposits in Venezuela are similar to those in Canada. Oil sands deposits are localized in 3 regions, classified as follows: the Athabasca Basin. the Peace River Basin, and. the Cold Lake Basin. While it produces conventional oil, most comes from the Alberta oil sands, the world’s third largest proven oil reserve at 170 billion barrels.
25 Sep 2014 These bitumen deposits require a lot of effort to extract, recover, and pre-process before the oil can be sent to conventional refineries. Most of the
Some 170 billion barrels of this heavy oil, or bitumen, are rated economically recoverable – making them the world's 3rd largest crude reserve. Only about 20 % of 12 Feb 2013 Canada's vast quantities of oil sands have been described variously as the world's third largest proven crude oil reserve, Canada's path to 22 Sep 2009 The oil sands are an issue of global importance. The Canadian oil sands are the second largest proven oil reserve after Saudi Arabia.1. 24 Dec 2015 Call for an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework on World Wetlands Day 2020 · Explore this subject. Wetlands International. Head Office The This page describes the history of oil sands development from 1717 to the present. were conducted by Sidney Ells, an engineer with the mining branch of the GSC. After World War 1, the Alberta Research Council (ARC) was formed by the Extracting oil from U.S. public lands through oil shale or tar sands would deal a nowhere else in the world, and many endangered and threatened species. not places to locate strip mines, oil refineries, power plants, and all the highways, The world's largest deposits of oil sands are in Venezuela and Canada. The geology of the deposits in the two countries is generally rather similar. They are vast heavy oil, extra-heavy oil, and/or bitumen deposits with oil heavier than 20°API, found largely in unconsolidated sandstones with similar properties.
19 Feb 2013 In this way, Hall said, gas helps turn tar sands "into something a bit closer to what we call oil." With most of the world's highest quality resources
Oil sands represent as much as 66% of the world's total oil reserves, with at least 1.7 trillion barrels in the Canadian Athabasca tar sands and 1.8 trillion barrels
24 Dec 2016 The world's largest deposit of tar sands is near Athabasca, in Alberta, Canada. Other large deposits exist in the former Soviet Union, Venezuela
However, OPEC still controls the overwhelming majority of the world's remaining oil reserves (around 70%) and tar sands production in Canada will not
With 300,878 million barrels of proven reserves, Venezuela has the largest amount of proven oil reserves in the world. The country's oil is a relatively new discovery. Previously, Saudi Arabia had always held the number one position. The oil sand deposits in Venezuela are similar to those in Canada. Oil sands deposits are localized in 3 regions, classified as follows: the Athabasca Basin. the Peace River Basin, and. the Cold Lake Basin. While it produces conventional oil, most comes from the Alberta oil sands, the world’s third largest proven oil reserve at 170 billion barrels. Interestingly, the largest deposits ever found are not liquid oil at all. They are either an asphalt-like substance called tar or oil sands, or rocks called oil shale. Chapter 4 MAJOR TAR-SAND DEPOSITS OF THE WORLD P.H. PHIZACKERLEY and L.O. SCOTT Introduction The descriptive term "tar sand" has been defined under the Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Act as sand having a "highly viscous crude hydrocarbon material not recoverable in its natural state through a well by ordinary production methods".