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The name tar sands was applied to bituminous sands in the late 19th and early 20th century. [18] People who saw the bituminous sands during this period were familiar with the large amounts of tar residue produced in urban areas as a by-product of the manufacture of coal gas for urban heating and lighting. [19]
The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of oil sands rich in bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, in northeastern Alberta, Canada. These reserves are one of the largest sources of unconventional oil in the world, making Canada a significant player in the global energy market.
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...
Sutorminskoye Field Russia: 1.3 Urengoy group Russia: 1 Ust-Balykskoe Field Russia >1 Tuymazinskoe Field Russia: 3 Arlanskoye Field Russia >2 South-Hilchuy Field Russia: 3.1 North-Dolginskoye Field Russia: 2.2 Nizhne-Chutinskoe Field Russia: 1.7 South-Dolginskoye Field Russia: 1.6 Prirazlomnoye Field: Russia: 1989 2011 1.4 West-Matveevskoye ...
In 1977 Strausz published his article on the chemistry of the oil sands, then also known as the tar sands attending the conference that year entitled the Symposium on Tar Sand and Oil Shale. [ 6 ] By 2003 with the rising price of oil , and the improvement of enhanced recovery techniques such as thermal in-situ methods, the Peace River oil sands ...
Map of oil and gas fields. This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea.In terms of the oil industry, "North Sea oil" often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetland) which are not, strictly speaking, part of the North Sea.
The field was discovered in January 1937 by Vaca Oil Exploration Co., which drilled into tar sands about 2,800 feet (850 m) below ground surface. In spite of the extremely viscous petroleum deposits in the producing formation, which they named after their firm – the Pliocene "Vaca" Tar Sand – they were able to produce about 50 barrels per ...
Oil pumps next to Falher, Alberta Canada proved oil reserves: conventional crude oil in red (data from OPEC) and total proved reserves including from oil sands in black (data from US Energy Information Administration) Conventional crude oil reserves in Canada (excludes condensate, natural gas liquids, and petroleum from oil sands).