- adding hot water to tar sand help separate the water and the sand
- giant funnels mix 80 degree celsius hot water with chemicals to reduce the acidity with the oil sands
- this produces bitumen
- bitumen as a thick tarry form of petroleum
- it bubbles as natural gas escapes
- there are enough oil sands to last us centuries
- one coproduct of crude oil is sulfur
- in sunoor they make about 400,00 barrels of oil a day and a large amount of coproducts
- oil sand mines produce 250 million liters of tailings per day
- since some oil sands cant be recovered hot steam is pumped underground to melt the hard bitumen