Oil refinery at sunset A tailings pond for the disposal of waste material from the mining and refining process is seen in the foreground This is the Syncrude oil processing plant in the Athabasca Oil Sands Alberta Canada The oilbearing sands are excavated and then processed to obtain crude oil and bitumen Syncrude began operating in the s As of it is the worlds largest producer of crude oil from oil sands extracting hundreds of thousands of barrels a day The Athabasca oil reserves are among the largest in the world
Work by David Nunuk
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