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  2. Athabasca oil sands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Oil sands - Wikipedia

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    As of 2023, Canada's oil sands industry, along with Western Canada and offshore petroleum facilities near Newfoundland and Labrador, continued to increase production and were projected to increase by an estimated 10% in 2024 representing a potential record high at the end of the year of approximately 5.3 million barrels per day (bpd). [28]

  4. Kearl Oil Sands Project - Wikipedia

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    The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada that is operated by the 143-year old Calgary, Alberta-headquartered Imperial Oil Limited—one of the largest integrated oil companies in Canada.

  5. File:Mining Canada's Oil Sands.ogv - Wikipedia

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    Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day ... 1=Satellite images show the growth of pit mines over Canada's oil sands between 1984 and 2011.}} |Source ...

  6. How to Solve the Problem of the Alberta Oil Sands

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    Canada is home to 173 billion barrels of recoverable heavy oil, and 168 billion barrels of that is located in oil sands. Most estimates point toward Canada's oil sands pumping out 5.2 million bpd ...

  7. Melville Island oil sands - Wikipedia

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    The Melville Island oil sands are a large deposit of oil sands (sometimes referred to as tar sands) on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Exploration for petroleum deposits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago began, on Melville Island, in 1961. [ 3 ]

  8. Canada to fund health study on how oil sands impact ... - AOL

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    (Reuters) -Canada will fund an Indigenous-led study into how oil sands development impacts the health of local communities, the government said on Wednesday, following a tailings water leak from ...

  9. Oil sands tailings ponds (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    Oil sand tailings or oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), have a highly variable composition and a complex mixture of compounds. [4] In his oft-cited 2008 journal article, E. W. Allen wrote that typically tailings ponds consist of c. 75% water, c. 25% sand, silt and clay, c.2% of residual bitumen, as well as dissolved salts, organics, and minerals.