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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: New Maps May Unlock Giant "Heavy Oil" Reserves, Expert Says


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Heavy oil seeps from tar sands in Vernal, Utah. Canada holds some of the largest reserves of heavy oil in the world, and a new mapping technique may make it easier to tap the hard-to-extract deposits, an expert says.

Photograph courtesy Argonne National Laboratory