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



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


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