As in Canada to extract oil from sand

• As in Canada to extract oil from sand

Canadian tar sands - fossil fuel, one type of unconventional oil, which is mixed with sand, clay and water. Its production is complex, time-consuming and requires a large amount of fresh water. Total oil sands in Canada and Venezuela have large oil reserves (3400 billion barrels).

Photographer agency Reuters Todd Korol visited Alberta to take a picture of mine sites and surrounding sand and oil landscapes.

How did the oil in the world? The dominant global theory of the origin of oil is biogenic theory that oil was formed from the remains of ancient organisms.

Extraction of oil from oil sands is performed mainly or quarry mining method.

Today, oil is one of the most important to mankind minerals.

The pipelines at the oil production from the oil sands in Alberta, on September 17, 2014.

The local landscape from a helicopter. Pine.

Oil refers to the non-renewable resources. It is estimated that oil at current rates of consumption will last for 110 years.

Oil capacity.

The entire world oil production is about 84 Mb / d. Thus, although tar sands reserves are huge, oil production from them in the near future (according to current projections) will satisfy only a few percent of the world's oil needs. The problem is that current technologies for extracting oil from tar sands requires large amounts of fresh water.

The image from the first stage separation of oil from sand.

Closer.

To the birds do not sit on the oil pond is used bogey.

Giant dump trucks carry Canadian oil sands for processing.

Machinery literally crawling on the sand, soaked in oil.

Black Gold everywhere.

Loading of oil sands.

Near the oil space is completely unspoiled nature.

Oil landscapes Alberta.

And here is the oil extracted from the oil sands. This black viscous mass of millions of years to form the remnants of ancient organisms.

In this picture it is clear that in some places the oil sands (left) are located immediately under the thin layer of soil