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Digging black gold - Canada - Machines unlock oil supply larger than Mideast's
Fort McMurray, Alberta,Canada - By RICK BARRETT -May 27, 2006: -- Like a monster rising from the tar pits, a Bucyrus mining shovel takes huge bites of gooey sand and drops them with a thud into the biggest truck you've ever seen... In the vast oil sands region of Alberta, mining shovels from the Milwaukee area are providing muscle to dig bitumen, a tar-like form of crude oil thats refined into gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum products... Four scoops of the sticky dirt, roughly 400 tons, fill the truck that stands three stories tall. The dirt contains a tarlike grade of petroleum called bitumen, which can be processed into synthetic crude oil... Most of the synthetic crude from this desolate region in northwest Canada is used to make gasoline, jet fuel or home heating fuel. It flows through a network of pipelines to oil refineries across North America, including Wisconsin's only refinery, in Superior...
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