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You might find this to be interesting:
Air secret ingredient in new heavy-oil extraction method
Article about a new process for producing oil from oil sands--a very clever process where they actually light a slow underground fire that heats the oil and separates it from the embedded sand. I'm watching this company (Petrobank) to see if they can license this THAI process to other oil companies. Potentially it could be used all over the world on oil sands and heavy oil to lower production costs dramatically.