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The Athabasca Oil Sands are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada - roughly centered around the boomtown of Fort McMurray. These oil sands, hosted in the McMurray Formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen, silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world and the largest of three major oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels (270×10^9 m3) of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum.
With modern unconventional oil production technology, at least 10% of these deposits, or about 170 billion barrels (27×10^9 m3) were considered to be economically recoverable at 2006 prices, making Canada's total oil reserves the second largest in the world, after Saudi Arabia's. The Athabasca deposit is the only large oil sands reservoir in the world which is suitable for large-scale surface mining, although most of it can only be produced using more recently developed in-situ technology.
Interesting Video Links On Alberta Oil (please click on text links to view videos).
- The Alberta Oil Sands - Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada - By CBS 60 Minutes
- The Alberta Blue - Northern Alberta Massive Oil Reserves - By The Alberta Department of Energy
- Five Fold Increase in Activity - Northern Alberta Massive Oil Reserves - By CBC News World
- Oil Sands Boom Town - Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada - By CNN Money
- Walking On Oil - Alberta Oil Sands - By C21 ETV's Channel
- Alberta Oil Sand Reserves - Corporate Video - By North American Construction Group
- Alberta Oil Sands - Megastructures - By National Geography
- Impact of Oil Sands in Calgary - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - By UKTIWeb
- The Largest Dump Truck I in the World - Carterpillar 797B
- Renewable Electricity - By The City Of Calgary
- Wind Farming in Southern Alberta - Canada - By BalconyGardenerTV
- The Pipe Handling System - By Foremost Industries Of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- The Pipe Handling Animation - Atlas Copco RD20 - By DCMagazine
- Downtown Fort McMurray - The Centre of Alberta Oil Sands - By FtMcMurrayVideoHomes
