Petroleum and Tars Sands

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Petroleum and Tars Sands

• By Cameron Aenlle-Rocha
• Chris Parker

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What are Tar Sands?

• Combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a
  heavy black thick oil.
• Tar sands are mined
• Tar Sands does not come in a liquid form in its
  natural state
• Tar Sands are processed to extract the oil-rich
  bitumen, which is then refined into oil.

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Tar Sands Resourcefulness

• Much of the worlds oil is found in tar sands
• Tar sands recently classified as part of the
  worlds oil reserves
• Not all of that oil is recoverable
• Largest deposit of Tar Sands is found in Canada
  and Venezuela
• 20 of US crude oil and products come from
  Canadian tar sands

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Tar Sands Resourcefulness

• The United States is starting to explore Tar
  Sands as an alternative to conventional oil
• The making of liquid fuel from tar sands requires
  energy for steam injection and refining
• Process generates 12 more greenhouse gasses per
  barrel that the production of conventional oil

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Advantages and Disadvantages

• Relatively new form of energy
• World has yet to really explore this option in
  forms of mass energy production
• Water, sand, waste, and minerals must be removed
  from tar sands
• Not very effective refinement process
• Refinement

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Petroleum to Gasoline

• Extracted from the ground
• Refinery
• Shipped around the country via pipelines
• Pump System

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Demand for Petroleum

• 35.1 of Total Energy demand
• 19.1 Million barrels of oil a year
• 50 more oil needed now that in 1973 (1st crisis)
• Petroleum replaces coal (WWII)
• Import half of crude oil

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More Numbers

• 2.22 Heating Oil
• 4.45 Heavy Fuel Oil
• 4.44 Liquefied pet. Gases
• 9 Jet Fuel
• 15 Other products
• 22 Diesel
• 42 Gasoline

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Use for Petroleum

• Gasoline, Fertilizers, Plastics, even Medicine
• Fuels cars, jets and other modes of transportation

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Advantages

• Living the way we have been in the recent past
• State and Federal lawes strickly regulate
  petroleum in an attempt to minimize negative
  effects

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Disadvantages

• Pollution (Air and Water)
• Wildlife Habitat Damage (Water and Land)

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Work Cited

• http//www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/canadas-tar
  -sands-so-destructive-it-makes-its-well-paid-worke
  rs-want-quit-video.html
• http//ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/index.cfm
• http//www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/Se
  cInfo/PetroS.pdf