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Up one levelThe next big thing or a risky gamble: Shell looks to turn sand into oil - Guardian Unlimited June 2006
Canada's energy reserves: It only makes sense if the oil price is high - yet it needs lots of cheap energy
Barrels for the future - GEO ExPro October 2005
Canada’s oil sands are the world’s largest single hydrocarbon resource. The huge volumes of thick, sticky crude oil – bitumen – are now being exploited at an increased pace. Thanks to thriving oil prices and improved technology, production is bound to double and reach two million barrels per day in only a few years time.
Heavy Oil and Natural Bitumen - Strategic Petroleum Resources - USGS August 2003
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 70-03 August 2003 - Online Version 1.0
What future for extra heavy oil and bitumen: The Orinoco case
Most assessments of the world's sources of oil tend to consider only the so called "conventional" resources and exclude, among others, the extra heavy oil and bitumen resources (10° API specific gravity). However these resources are increasingly becoming commercially producible, since the early 80's in the Athabasca province of Alberta, Canada and, more recently, in the Orinoco province of Venezuela. The purpose of this paper is to review the present status of the Orinoco bitumen development, and to evaluate the future contribution to worldwide oil reserves offered by these "non conventional" resources of extra heavy oil and bitumen. (Copyright © 1998. World Energy Council)