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uysha [10]
3 years ago
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Advantages and disadvantages of extracting petroleum products from oil sands

Chemistry
1 answer:
Brut [27]3 years ago
6 0
<span> Advantages
- large resource of potential oil
- biggest resource is in Canada, whereas the largest reserves of crude oil are in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
</span><span><span>- It requires less processing than oil shale and presents fewer problems than oil shale
- Processing is mainly by hot water.</span>- Exploitation has only started recently so low cost reserves are still available.



Disadvantages
- Most of the resource is uneconomic at present oil prices - so exploitable reserves are less than for crude oil
- Oil sands require mining, which is more complex and costly than drilling and pumping crude oil.
- Processing requires more energy than for crude oil.
- Resources are less than for oil shale - which is available in very large reserves in the US and Australia.</span>
<span>- Refining is more difficult because the product is in the form of bitumen - requiring cracking to produce a saleable product.
- because of the increased processing and refining, more carbon is released per unit of useable energy than for crude oil</span>

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