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    The Long Lake oil sands upgrader project is an in situ oil extraction project near Anzac, Alberta, 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Fort McMurray in the Athabasca...
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    The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, located in northeastern...
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    Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially...
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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...
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  • is a Calgary, Alberta based oil sands development company. Established in 1999, its sole project is the Long Lake oil sands project, of which it owns 35%...
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  • Long Lake may refer to: Long Lake, Alberta, hamlet Long Lake (oil sands), an oil sands upgrader project in Alberta Long Lake Provincial Park (Alberta)...
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  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an autobiographical comic by Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton. Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2022, Ducks is an...
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  • Long Lake may refer to several lakes in Alberta: Long Lake (Athabasca County), a lake in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada Long Lake (oil sands), an oil...
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    Athabasca Oil Sands, Cold Lake oil sands, and Peace River oil sands. The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) has 19 tailings ponds. Oil sand tailings or oil sands...
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    of crude oil and equivalent. Of that amount, 64% was upgraded from unconventional oil sands, and the remainder light crude oil, heavy crude oil and natural-gas...
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    Canada's oil sands and heavy oil resources are among the world's great petroleum deposits. They include the vast oil sands of northern Alberta, and the...
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  • Steam-assisted gravity drainage (category Bituminous sands)
    heavy oil fields was able to produce oil from some portions of the Alberta oil sands, such as the Cold Lake oil sands, but did not work as well to produce...
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    Dam.[citation needed] According to Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), an alliance of oil sands producers formed in 2012, who share research...
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    2015: On July 15, a pipeline at a Long Lake oil sands facility in northern Alberta leaked about 31,500 barrels of oil emulsion. The spill covered approximately...
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    White Sands National Park is an American national park located in the state of New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. The...
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  • Western Canadian Select (category Athabasca oil sands)
    April 21, 2020. In June, Cenovus increased production at its Christina Lake oil sands project reaching record volumes of 405,658 bbls/d when the price of...
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    The Salt Lake Oil Field is an oil field underneath the city of Los Angeles, California. Discovered in 1902, and developed quickly in the following years...
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  • CNOOC Petroleum North America (category Oil companies of Canada)
    the Athabasca oil sands through a 7.23% ownership of Syncrude and the Long Lake project), the UK North Sea (including the Buzzard oil field), the United...
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    northern shores. The large oil sands mining nearby is suspected to have added to the current pollution levels in the lake. On October 31, 2013, one of...
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    to increase in the future as a result of continued output from the oil sands. Oil sand pollution is not only set to increase VOCs, but also, acid rain...
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    basin-centered gas, shale gas, coalbed methane (CBM), gas hydrates, tar sands, light tight oil and oil shale, mostly from North America. The distinction between conventional...
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    at the Morrow Lake delta remained closed and other sections of the river remain restricted because of the ongoing cleanup of the oil sands product called...
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  • Environmental issues in Alberta (category Oil spills in Alberta)
    issues related to natural resource extraction—including oil and gas industry with its oil sands—endangered species, melting glaciers in banff, floods and...
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    sands, ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Little Rock releasing about 3,190 barrels (134,000 US gal; 507 m3) of oil...
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    California (US), the Lake Maracaibo area of Venezuela, and the oil sands of northern Alberta, Canada. Another contributing factor that enhances oil production during...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    characterisation. Unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale exist. Once extracted, oil is refined and separated, most easily by distillation...
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    child labor or tax evasion) and 67 topic tags, or "hot topics" (such as palm oil, arctic drilling, indigenous people, coal, or water scarcity). The research...
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    municipality in North America by area and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands. The Municipality of Wood Buffalo was incorporated...
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    Syncrude being the top producer of oil sands crude and Irving Oil operating the largest oil refinery in the country. Canadian oil company profits quickly recovered...
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    Rub' al Khali (section Oil)
    few years. However, lakes in the Mundafen area in the southwest of the Rub' al Khali show evidence of such lakes lasting longer, up to 800 years, from...
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