I always like how people have to post negative comments about the oil sands. But all of these people use oil and gas every day in their lives and no nothing about the history of mankind. oil and gas has changed the lives of basically everybody on earth for the good.People live longer and better lives because of oil and gas.

Proud Canadian proud of the oil sands!

I worked at Suncor and Syncrude in the mid 1980's. The companies were great to work for but Ft McFlrurry (I call it that since we had snow in August) was pretty isolated and not too many ladies to date for single guys. Lot's of hunting/fishing/ORV trails though. I worked at petrochemical plants and a refinery also over the years and retired in 2015 due to our polypropylene plant closing due to reduction in feed stock due to our supplier switching to nat gas as a feed stock vs crude oil. While at Suncor (Syncrude was down due to a large fire at the fluid coker) I was unloading bitumen from trucks as the mine at Syncrude was still operational and Suncor could process more than it could extract in the winter. The temperature got close to -60 F one night. I could only stay outside for about 10 minutes at a time. One operator bought a brand new GM auto with the cold weather package and even with the battery and block heaters plugged in it would not start. Three of the younger operators where I worked for the last 25 years went to the Koch oil refinery in Minnesota and one of them worked in the cokers. I think they refined synthetic crude from Alberta there. I had worked in the cokers at Suncor.

I worked on the original Keystone pipeline a few years ago. A great experience! 😗

Ive worked at majority of the facilities mentioned so this is a really cool video and is super informative.

Fantastic high-level video. Thanks for the hard work put in developing this 😊

Having run this crude as a refinery operator, I can attest to the large water and sludge content. This stuff would cause havoc to our desalters. Interesting finding out how it gets extracted. Thank you 🙋🏼

Interesting and informative, thank you.

Really well done, thank you!

Excellent presentation. Informative and well-presented.

EXCELLENT Presentation. I knew some of what is done in the Processing of these Oil Sands. I was amazed as to how much Oil is thought to be locked into these Sands.

That was AWESOME!! So very well done. I actually understood everything. The use of emojis was spot on. Very well done!

Brilliant presentation

Great video and excellent presentation.

Great video!

Very interesting thanks for the video!

Muy completo. Saludo desde Colombia. Gracias.

Excellent content!

Quality, very informative, thank you.

Very informative

Great video thanks 😊

Really well done! I liked it Very much. Thank you!!

Thanks for sharing this very professional presentation and the very best of luck!

Oil has to stay above $80 us a barrel and a ton of money has to be investigated for Canada to get rich of it. The new pipeline, next to the 1 that's been around 80 years to the Pacific ocean is a good idea. It really is 6 months of absolute freezing cold up there, moving some dirt around isn't going to wreak the planet.

wow! good vid!

Hi Anna, My buddy, Choate, worked on the refinery cracking units near Port Arthur, Texas. Last I heard, they were slow to get a pipeline down there.

Great video. I'd love to know what type of plants and vegetation grows on top of Oil Sands. What was/is the surrounding natural environment like? Species found there?

Very informative thank you 🙏

Good video.

That was dope.

Thank you...

Well produced video.

Awesome

Impressive 🎉

I've spent a lot of time in Ft. Mcmurray doing catalyst change outs on the Cat Crackers at, I think, Syncrude. I remember being there once in February and one day the temperature got up to 40 degrees below zero!

Can sand be used for construction after bitumen is removed?

Exceptionally well done.

@11:27, the carbon stored is only the carbon produced as result of production correct? So about 10% of the CO2 production from Well to Wheel is scheduled to be stored? The other 90% is the end user's responsibility?

What are your thoughts on EOR, carbon capture and the misnomer “net zero”..I ❤ oil sands

Yo dawg heard you liked bitumen

Intriguing

Really good video, keep it up.

Would it be possible to use SMRs for process heat in all this and reduce CO2 emissions?

The new DRUbit product from Hardesty goes by my place daily on the CPKC, heading to Louisiana.

Very interesting about the oil sands and the Alberta it is a big operation in Canada there will be a lot of professional jobs going and labouring jobs going it's a place that I like to go and have a look at fort McMurray a very interesting region

Great explainer, but it's really strange to see no mention of the huge pollution caused by tar sands. No, i am not talking about the air emissions mentioned here. Really cute to hear about the "totally clean bitumen"!

Cool!

As has been said in previous comments- Excellent presentation. I knew nothing about the processes involved, but thanks to you, I have learned quite a bit. Many years ago, there was an attempt to develop the oil sands at Setchey in Norfolk, UK, not very far from my home but it was later abandoned. Having seen the processing equipment that would be needed, it would have been uneconomic. The huge reserves in Alberta make all the difference.

Geez the smilie face emoji was classic

... how does it work?

Cool video

Are the oil sands after the bitumen is harvested "clean" what happens to it?

Can anyone explain to me how do you observe 200 million years?

At the rate climate change is hitting Canadian forests, it is unlikely there will still be an extractive industry for internal combustion. But, asphalt for roadways will still be in demand.

8:31 Hello, a correction: Chicago Illinois is not in Indiana 💫

Doesnt anybody see the flaw here... Its like asking Apple to review its own product! Video is good, but many downsides were just quickly brushed away or simply left out!

I worked kearl lake, cold lake, the lakes, shell. , shell Scottford, fox creek, in alberta ,

So, you are saying that Canada has no way to build complex refinery?

If we could rid ourselves of Trudeau, and unleash oil and gas, Canadians would be the wealthiest people in the world.

So why doesn't Canada invest in refineries with upgraders?

No mention of Tailing Ponds ?

We need to get some more ladies into these oils sand jobs. Pretty sure the male to female ratio in Alberta is way off.

How does the dilutent make it back to Alberta

Canada exports 4 million barrels of oil a day to the US. The US exports 800K barrels a day to Canada. Nice gig that.....buy Canadian oil at at WCS ,then sell back to the original country at WTI prices plus pipeline fees.....sweet

And It should stay there. Tony Seba was right.

It's unfortunate that companies have been investing heavily in pipeline capacity and not in upgrading/refining capacity. Given that it takes approximately the same amount of time to bring either project online (apx 10 years) the economic benefits of increased refining capacity in country seem like a no brainier.

I drive mining truck at Suncor oil sand site

great job greening the dirtiest way to extract oil ever

Gonna need this to power ur Tesla!😅😅

Oil is a mineral.

I think it’s funny how the first benefit they mentioned was tax revenue

i have never fallen asleep this fast when watching a youtube video

Not what I expected. The environmental impact/ cost analysis/employment potential is what I was looking for 🤔

Mmmm, I thought Canada uses solar and wind energy...

Now that you've whet my appetite for knowledge about the industry, please tell me that you are planning on making more videos?

They are cleaning the sand and reclaimed the land afterwards

I’m no math, science, bill nye the science guy. But she said (1800 billion bbls in the ground, we only use 1 bbls (2/3 of canadas usage in a year) wouldn’t that mean we are good for another 1800 years?? Seems decent

I like oil, oil makes my van go voom.

Wer is. Pipe line welder hir. Can mi help

It’s a crying shame that all that planning, investment, efficiency, care of the planet, and genius is now threatened by the impossible “net zero” goal.

I remember a couple of talking points about the oil sands I heard YEARS ago... The oil sands mines cover and area about the same size as greater Toronto. There is a reclamation plan in place (and continuously ongoing) for the oil sands to re-plant the whole area and return it to its pre-extraction condition......There is no plan in place to do the same for Toronto. If aliens from outer space landed in Fort McMurray they would probably comment that these earth people sure go out of their way to clean up a little oil from the ground!!!

Tar Sands. (Edit: And there is no oil there like the video keeps talking about. This is not Saudi Arabia What the Tar Sands have is called crude bitumen.)

This area has the Hugoton gas field when depleted could hold all the US sequestered CO2 The Hugoton Panhandle gas field, in parts of Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, is an area of almost 8,500 sq miles and contains one of the world's largest known gas reserves.

GREAT

Electrolysis of Salt Water to make hydrogen gas and oxygen gas using excess solar and wind power 😮.

Did you know, the Oil Sands supplied the allies (including Russia) all their fuel needs during WW2!

Lots of indigenous communities benefit from the oil and gas industry. The indigenous people who sue the energy companies only counts a minor portions of the entire indigenous populations

Your all going to die alone with cat's if you keep ignoring me.

Love the oilsands and canadian oil and gas. Canada needs its energy industry in the worst way.

Let me sum up 17 years of the oil patch. The only positive they can actually state is $$$ its hell on the local communities as its a boom and bust cycle that only bankruptcy trusties will win in the end. It is far better to get Alberta and Sask to get into other industries far from carbon.

Government and taxes always make shit better 😂😂😂

Drop a fresh bucket load on trud-eau so mr.dress up enjoy the tar sand.

There is a lot more recoverable oil in Alberta than 161 billion barrels. That said, looming like an odious spectre over Alberta's energy future (and its future overall well-being) is Canada's federal government, representing the views and interests of Ontario and Quebec. This federal government is historically hostile to Alberta, and the most that Alberta can hope from Canada's federal government is that it will be largely left alone.

Bitumen almost sounds like Vegemite… ok not really, just sounds cool. This would make good road asphalt or so it seems to me. What do I know. Odd that I almost went to the sands for work but now work in Kuwait. Nope, not in oil but electronics. Time to sleep.

the video is 12 min not 10 min

Very informative about the ashpalt. But why does it melt under the very hot sun?. 😂

Open Oil Pipelines from Canada to USA. You Tube.

CO2 is plant food. Solar energy in long term storage locations and medium.

8:40. Chicago is not in Indiana. 👋