<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spragins, F. K.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chilingarian, G. V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yen, T. F.</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athabasca tar sands: Occurrence and commercial projects</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">overview</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Syncrude</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1978</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company </style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York, NY</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28 pages </style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This chapter focuses on the Athabasca tar-sand deposit of northeastern Alberta, Canada, and the commercial developments going on there. The Athabasca tar sands are the major deposit of oil in a viscous-oil trend, stretching across Alberta, from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border near Cold Lake to a point near the town of Peace River. The Athabasca tar sands are divided into two zones: one where oil deposits are covered by oil-barren surface deposits of from 0 to 150 ft and one where these overburden deposits range from 150 ft to more than 2000 ft in thickness. A number of oil companies have undertaken several commercial projects in the area. The Syncrude project has been designed to produce 125,000 bbl/day of synthetic crude oil. In the Syncrude mining scheme, two parallel open-pit mining faces will be opened and actively mined, advancing away from each other, throughout the life of the project. Fina, representing a group of companies, has also submitted an application to the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) for a permit to produce 122,500 bbl/day of synthetic crude oil by means of a scheme based on mining wheels, hot-water extraction, and fluid coking.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IN: Chilingarian G.V. and T.F. Yen (Eds.).  Bitumens asphalts and tar sands. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company New York New York. Developments in Petroleum Science 7.  Chapter 5.  pp. 93-121.</style></notes><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR)</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4922423081</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>