U.S. energy future rests with development of Canadian oil sands

U.S. energy future rests with development of Canadian oil sands - Yahoo! News:
by Kevin G. Hall, Knight Ridder Newspapers -- Oct 6, 2005
"The sands contain a tarlike grade of crude oil called bitumen, which must be separated from the dirt through a costly, complicated boiling process. Hydrogen is added, sulfur and nitrogen removed, and the final product is synthetic crude oil.
Shell's Athabasca Oil Sands Project - a joint venture between Shell, ChevronTexaco and other companies - already produces about 155,000 barrels of oil a day. Within a decade, it should produce half a million barrels per day."