OIL SANDS, Alberta, Canada. The world’s largest petroleum resource basin.


The Athabasca Oil Sands deposit in northern Alberta, Canada contains and estimated to trilloin barrels of heavy oil called bitumen that lies under a blanket of muskeg and overburden.


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