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The Tar Sand
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Since the early 1900s the oil sand deposits have been extracted mainly for the use of road pavement. Later, in the 1970s, oil companies began to experiment with the deposits in the hope of using it for their benefit. These experiments ended in the late 1980s when the technologies being used were
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of Utah, which is a section of the
Colorado Plateaus province. Some of these sites include Sunnyside, P.R. Spring, Asphalt Ridge, Hill Creek, Circle Ridge, Circle Cliffs, White Rocks, and the Tar Sand Triangle, the highest deposit.
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Utah's oil sands are made up of several different deposits all consisting of different amounts of heavy or crude oil. These sites are mostly found on public lands. They are mainly close together and many are found within the
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about 6.3 billion barrels of heavy oil, but is thought to have originally held more. At one point the Tar Sand
Triangle could have consisted of 16 billion barrels of heavy oil, almost as much as in Utah today.
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concluded inefficient and too expensive. Recently, oil companies have again become interested in Utah's oil sands. Now that conventional oil is becoming harder to find, oil sands have become an
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or heavy crude oil have the ability to generate about 12 to 19 billion barrels from a number of prominent sites.
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