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2. Oil sands - Wikipedia

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   In 2006, bitumen production in Canada averaged 1.25 Mbbl/d (200,000 m 3 /d) through 81 oil sands projects. 44% of Canadian oil production in 2007 was from oil sands. [47] This proportion was (as of 2008) expected to increase in coming decades as bitumen production grows while conventional oil production declines, although due to the 2008 ...

3. Bitumen - Wikipedia

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   Bitumen also occurs in unconsolidated sandstones known as "oil sands" in Alberta, Canada, and the similar "tar sands" in Utah, US. The Canadian province of Alberta has most of the world's reserves, in three huge deposits covering 142,000 square kilometres (55,000 sq mi), an area larger than England or New York state .

4. Are We About to See a Big Turnaround for Oil Sands? - AOL

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   This past quarter, Devon Energy , ConocoPhillips , and Suncor all posted better-than-expected results from their oil sands or thermal oil or bitumen operations (Side note: We sure have come up ...

5. Asphaltite - Wikipedia

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   Asphaltite (also known as uintahite, asphaltum, gilsonite or oil sands [1]) is a naturally occurring soluble solid hydrocarbon, a form of asphalt [2] (or bitumen) with a relatively high melting temperature. Its large-scale production occurs in the Uintah Basin of Utah and Colorado, United States.

6. Froth treatment (Athabasca oil sands) - Wikipedia

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   Bitumen froth treatment is a process used in the Athabasca oil sands (AOS) bitumen recovery operations to remove fine inorganics—water and mineral particles—from bitumen froth, by diluting the bitumen with a light hydrocarbon solvent—either naphthenic or paraffinic—to reduce the viscosity of the froth and to remove contaminants that were not removed in previous water-based gravity ...

7. Salvation for Tar Sands? - AOL

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   Tar sands get a lot of bad press, much of it to do with the fact that the extraction and processing of tar sands bitumen creates a lot more pollution than other fuel sources. A few companies are ...