One giant sandbox

Posted December 20, 2006 in [Energy]

Jason Gondziola, The New Canadian Magazine
Spring 2005

More like a gigantic sandbox than an oil basin, the Athabasca oil sands make up one-third of the world's known reserves. In total, there are 1.7 trillion barrels of oil, but only 175 billion barrels are recoverable with today's technology, depending on how you do the math.

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