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To: Frantzie

It is called the Bakke formation here in the US, but Canada’s Alberta tar sands also hold monstrous reserves of oil that are becoming more and more recoverable. Every year the fraction rises.


18 posted on 01/27/2010 11:46:56 AM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: domenad

Exactly; every year new technology increases the amounts available from current fields, often makes “depleted” fields productive again and finally makes uneconomic deposits a winning proposition. We have taken far more oil from Prudhoe than was first estimated.


19 posted on 01/27/2010 12:59:59 PM PST by MSF BU (++)
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