A Resource Waiting To Be Developed

摘要

This may come as a surprise to a number of industry participants, but Utah is home to the largest oil sand resource in the United States. Largest, as in an estimated 16 billion barrels of bitumen and heavy oil. Light sweet crude, it's not. At least 50 deposits are known to be within and flanking the petroliferous Uinta and Paradox basins in Utah, according to AAPG member Steven Schamel, president at GeoX Consulting in Salt Lake City and current chair of the EMD Bitumen and Heavy Oil Committee.