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Diff · History 337 Other deposits: Moving US oil sands resources up in section ahead of Russian ones. Adding dictionary citation for "megagiant" and "supergiant" definitions
Diff · History 726 Venezuela: Updating the Venezuelan situation. Bad, very bad. The country is falling apart - how can it continue to produce oil?
Diff · History 1,060 Alberta: Moving paragraph about refining in British Columbia from production to new Refining/British Columbia section
Diff · History -979 Canada: Moving section about refining from production to refining section
Diff · History 760 Canada: Adding more information and supporting references to the proposal.
Diff · History 154 top: Cite another reference for the differences between bitumen and tar in case someone doesn't like the previous one.
Diff · History 278 top: Bitumen doesn't really smell like tar, it smells like crude oil, and has a lot of other differences. Reference civil engineering web site elaborating 15+ differences.
Diff · History -65 Greenhouse gas emissions: Adding an additional citation to the text I added, and cutting out some of the biographical stuff about Dr. Birol that people can find in his biography
Diff · History 439 Greenhouse gas emissions: Adding some background about, and a link to the Wikipedia article on Fatih Birol
Diff · History 1,476 Greenhouse gas emissions: Opinion of the chief economist of the International Agency: oil sands CO2 emissions "extremely low".
Diff · History -125 Future pipelines: correct a couple of errors, delete some of my irrelevant verbiage
Diff · History 783 Future pipelines: Update on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline
Diff · History 77 Disambiguating some linkes
Diff · History -5 Pioneers: correcting minor typo
Diff · History 113 History: Adding a few subheadings
Diff · History 809 History: Adding more and more history
Diff · History 2,359 History: Adding additional detail to this section
Diff · History 463 Canada: Adding citations for Canadian oil sands, more later.
Diff · History 43 Geology: citation for size of reserves.
Diff · History 1 Size of resources: insert missing bracket
Diff · History 53 Geology: Adding subsections "Size of resources", "Canada", and "Venezuela"
Diff · History 7,080 History: Adding section "Geology" to the article
Diff · History -13 PADD 5 (West Coast): oops another typo
Diff · History 8 United States: Typo
Diff · History 2,422 United States: Adding PADD 1 and otherwise improving this section.
Diff · History 0 Asia: That's Maclean's, not MaClean's
Diff · History -1,014 Asia: Move some text from here to the United States section, where it more properly belongs
Diff · History 1,066 United States: Move text to here from the Asia section
Diff · History 2,797 PADD 5: West Coast: Adding section Asia - it's all about playing the China card
Diff · History 137 Costs: I'm going to have to change the last edit by DocRuby because of assumptions that aren't actually true. Canadian oil companies book future reclamation costs as a liability. US refinery cleanup costs - those are a different basket of snakes.
Diff · History 35 PADD 5: West Coast: Fine tuning the verbiage and correcting a few minor typos
Diff · History 2,606 PADD 3: Gulf Coast: Add PADD 5: West Coast
Diff · History 2,499 United States: Dividing into subsections and adding PADD 3: Gulf Coast
Diff · History 777 United States: Adding some stuff about WCS, The benchmark for Canadian crude prices.
Diff · History 1,935 United States: I'm beginning to add info on US refineries, which are the largest processors of Canadian oil sans output.
Diff · History 20 Venezuela: Disambiguate condensate to natural gas condensate
Diff · History 1,553 Upgrading and/or blending: Adding section on Venezuela. How big a mess is it? I prefer being in Canada.
Diff · History 0 Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS): Capitalizing the nouns for consistency sake. No point in messing up a good acronym.
Diff · History -175 Methods of extraction: I'm adding a section on Primary production because that's the primary method used today. Venezuela is a 3rd world country, and getting more 3rd world, so what can you expect?
Diff · History -130 Solvent Extraction: Changing name to Vapor Extraction because then I can use the acronym (VAPEX). Do whatever feels good. The Green Car Congress doesn't feel really good as a credible source.
Diff · History -19 Transportation and refining: Splitting into 2 separate sections since it's getting long. I'll add more to "Refining"
Diff · History 58 Rest of Canada: Even more fine tuning of the verbiage.
Diff · History 219 Rest of Canada: Some fine tuning of the verbiage.
Diff · History 223 Alberta: Some fine tuning of the verbiage around the North West Upgrader. Is it an upgrader or a refinery? Sounds like one or the other or both.
Diff · History 3,062 Refining: Putting in new subheaders, moving generic stuff from the bottom to the top, and adding a new "Rest of Canada" after "Alberta". The ROC refining picture is really depressing.
Diff · History 1,389 Refining: Description of the fifth major oil refinery in Alberta under construction. A little hard to explain, and may not make economic sense, but there it is.
Diff · History 1,929 Rail: Adding some statistics on Canadian oil exports by rail, and explaining the huge Lac Megantic rail disaster (fully covered by Wikipedia). Transporting oil by rail is much more dangerous than pipeline.
Diff · History 9 Refining: Rearranging and trimming the text somewhat, emphasize that Lloydminster is on (straddles) the AB/SK border.
Diff · History 43 Input energy: Changing "regulatory" to NAFTA and Canadian Constitution. Let's say where the power lies.
Diff · History -30 Refining: Removing a couple of minor glitches. Lloydminster, Alberta and Lloydminster, Saskatchewan direct to the same article. It's the same city.
Diff · History 1,884 Refining: List of the 4 Alberta refineries which handle about 25% of the oil sands output - but, man, are these references tricky. Who owns what? And why are they playing their cards so close to their chest?
Diff · History 0 Upgrading and/or blending: Fixing some typos
Diff · History 756 Upgrading and/or blending: Adding some more numbers from a new source and correcting some typos and inaccuracies.
Diff · History 2,689 Rail: Some new information extracted by the media from Suncor's latest financial statements. There's a lot of railroading being done there.
Diff · History 1,823 Upgrading and/or blending: Update on the diluent supply situation. Interesting times, as the Chinese like to say (and they own a lot of the bitumen)
Diff · History 880 Upgrading and/or blending: Adding more information to this section and reorganizing somewhat
Diff · History 1,903 Transportation and refining: Adding new section "Upgrading and/or blending"
Diff · History 36 Future pipelines: Disambiguating "Northern Gateway" to "Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines"
Diff · History 6 Economics: Disambiguating "heavy oil" to "heavy crude oil".
Diff · History 5 Existing pipelines: Alter "right of way" to "pipeline easement". More accurate in the Canadian context.
Diff · History 230 Rail: Add the current rail traffic volumes
Diff · History 6 Future pipelines: Typo
Diff · History 1,291 Future pipelines: Yes, let's add the Energy East Pipeline to New Brunswick. Canada already has the longest oil pipelines in the world, and this would make tham even longer.
Diff · History 848 Rail: I'm winding up the Rail section. That's probably enough for now.
Diff · History 1,750 Future pipelines: Add new section, "Rail" for the railroad buffs in the crowd. Actually oil companies are getting keen on trains, too.
Diff · History 1,926 New pipelines: Add section, "Future pipelines". The Keystone XL pipeline is just one of them. If the environmentalists knew about all of them, they would probably be even more upset.
Diff · History 2,588 Transportation and refining: This section is getting rather long, so I'm adding subheadings "Existing pipelines", "New pipelines", and "Refining". Some of the pipeline stuff would no doubt freak out the environmentalists if anybody had told them.
Diff · History 2,095 And then the American oil oversupply problem hits. Should I cover this? Probably because Canadian bitumen caused most of it, and it is more localized than people think.
Diff · History 262 Transportation and refining: Updating info on the Canadian export pipeline system to include North Dakota oil
Diff · History 3,090 Transportation and refining: Add a lot of detail about the crude oil pipeline network distributing oil sands production
Diff · History 71 Transportation and refining: Add some more stuff on blending diluent with bitumen
Diff · History 1,429 Transportation and refining: I'm putting in more on this pipeline issue with an initial reference
Diff · History 122 Transportation and refining: I'm taking a shot at improving this section. Its coverage ranges from marginal to flat-out wrong.
Diff · History 0 I'm moving "Input Energy" up from the end of the article to follow "Methods of extraction", where it more logically belongs
Diff · History 706 Production forecasts: Okay, some text on
Diff · History 1,238 Input energy: Well, there goes the natural gas supply problem! Gone like summer snow - well maybe not gone in Canada. Keep on fracking!
Diff · History -35 Economics: Putting in a couple of subtitles since the section is getting rather long. Took out the globalization flag because Venezuela is - not economic for anything. What else can I say?
Diff · History 2,753 Economics: Updated oil sands economics I found in a couple of authoritative references, for those who want to know the hard numbers.
Diff · History 791 Economics: Adding some more stuff about Canada's energy position. It's true that it's not a global picture.
Diff · History 1,863 Production: Moved text about production from the Orinoco deposit to the new "Venezuela" section
Diff · History -1,622 Orinoco: Moving text about production to the "Production" section.
Diff · History 1,121 Orinoco: Add some information about extra-heavy oil production in the Orinoco, with a reference
Diff · History 260 Peace River: And finally the relatively smaller Peace River deposit, with the same reference. I could go on, but then we would be going faaar into the bituminous ozone layer.
Diff · History 491 Cold Lake: Add more info from the aforementioned article. I don't think huff'n'puff is a good method but it does work there.
Diff · History 220 Athabasca: Add some info about the Wabasca oil sands from the same source. Smaller but pretty nice to do SAGD in.
Diff · History 569 Athabasca: Add some information about the Athabasca deposit from the source I just cited.
Diff · History 1 Major deposits: Oops! That was 2.2 TRILLION barrels of oil, not 2.2 billion. Brits might get obsessed about the diff between their trillion and the American trillion. I'm I don't know because I'm Canadian.
Diff · History 974 Major deposits: I found this really good reference, so I'm updating the header. I wonder if something similar exists for Venezuela. Probably not.
Diff · History 35 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS): Fix the reference I just screwed up
Diff · History 467 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS): Add some more information and a citation about CSS
Diff · History 102 Surface mining: Make the Main link a See also, and make a better article the Main one
Diff · History 238 Surface mining: Adding links to the relevant Wiki articles about rock types and oil companies
Diff · History 18 Athabasca: Disambiguate Shell to Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon to ExxonMobile
Diff · History 1,432 Economics: Add some stuff about about pipeline and labor constraints. That's probably enough about Canada. What about Venezuela?
Diff · History -1,548 Economics: Added more projects from the NEB report and deleted all the obsolete parts of the section, which was basically all of it. I'm sure I can find more sources.
Diff · History 2,211 Economics: Well, I guess we need a major cleanup here. My source is the Canadian National Energy Board, but it appears that all the other major sources are on the same page.
Diff · History -125 Water management: I moved the rather good satellite picture of the mining operation up to "Surface mining" because it seemed wasted on "Water management"
Diff · History 31 Surface mining: I'm moving this rather good sat photo of an oil sands mining operation up from Water management. It's wasted there, all it shows is the place has water everywhere.
Diff · History 52 Orinoco: Add "See also" link to "History of the Venezuelan oil industry"
Diff · History 636 Athabasca: Add text about the Wabasca oil sands, which overlie the Athabasca oil sands in many places
Diff · History -203 Cold Lake: I put in too much about the air force base and bombing range, so I'm cutting it down. Readers can read the "See also" if they are interested
Diff · History 94 Surface mining: Add picture of Syncrude mine site
Diff · History 1 Other deposits: Correct a few typos
Diff · History 0 Other deposits: Make picture thumb a little smaller
Diff · History 74 Other deposits: Add map of Melville Island
Diff · History 114 Athabasca: Add picture of Fort McMurray on the Athabasca River
Diff · History 70 Orinoco: Add picture of the Orinoco River.
Diff · History 51 Peace River: Add picture of the Peace River
Diff · History -230 Cold Lake: That's too much information, cutting it down, tongue firmly in cheek.
Diff · History 1,217 Cold Lake: Add in a couple of cool pictures of the lake and the air force base. I only put in the bombing range because I know about it. Should I do this? If I told you more, I'd have to kill you.
Diff · History 106 Athabasca: Add picture of Athabasca oil sands from 1900 from article. That's pretty much how it looks today where there are no mines around.
Diff · History 2,733 Orinoco: Copy over text from Orinco oil sands article, condense, modify and add a bit of more current info.
Diff · History 2,452 Athabasca: Copy over text from main article, cut down and edit somewhat.
Diff · History 1,184 Peace River: Copy over text from Peace River oil sands article, and add some info. Copy one sort-of-okay reference. This could all be improved if someone was interested.
Diff · History 604 Cold Lake: Copy text over from the Cold Lake oil sands article. It's pretty thin, and there's only one reference which isn't crap.
Diff · History 34 Other deposits: Emphasize that the deposits outside of Canada and Venezuela are smaller.
Diff · History 24 Major deposits: move the Melville Island oil sands down to "Other deposits" and reference the Wabasca oil sands under Athabasca.
Diff · History 48 Surface mining: Improve the main article and see also links
Diff · History -68 Surface mining: Remove redundant redundant text text
Diff · History -2,903 Surface mining: Moved most of the text to the Athabasca oil sands article as per flag, updated the rest (there are a lot more mines now).
Diff · History -2,337 Reserves: After moving text to the "Major deposits" section, Make the rest a subcategory "Other deposits" of the "Major deposits" section.
Diff · History 1,954 Major deposits: Move text in from "Reserves" section. Is it "reserves". The SEC disagrees, BP disagrees, and the SPE calls it "resources"
Diff · History 740 History: Add section "Major deposits" preliminary to moving stuff from here to the Athabasca oil sands article. Athabasca is one of several. More to come.
Diff · History 0 See also: Move column break
Diff · History 161 See also: Add links to the Wiki articles about the world's major oil sands deposits
Diff · History -12,536 Oil sands tailings ponds: Move section to Athabasca oil sands article, where they are more applicable. See Talk
Diff · History 317 As requested, citation for NEB definition of bitumen. Enjoy reading the whole document, hours of fascinating information, the definition is in the glossary near the end.
Diff · History 266 Cite the exact Canadian authority for definition of bitumen (National Energy Board), add a few Wiki links
Diff · History 280 History: Minor change in wording; add citation from Saudi Aramco
Diff · History 29 Let's be accurate. They were historically known as ''bituminous sands'' but were often called ''tar sands'' in the late 19th - early 20th century. The term is most often used in the US.
Diff · History 835 Add description of the contents of oil sands (not "tar")
Diff · History -531 Revert to previous version by Xqbot: "Tar" is scientifically inaccurate and a loaded word (see WP:NPOV); the cited documentary is almost pure BS (see WP:RELIABLE)
Diff · History 48 History: Add a few links and facts about the ancients
Diff · History 1,537 History: Citation for the ancient Mesopotamians using bitumen. Heck, the freakin' Neanderthals used bitumen on their stone tools!
Diff · History 8 Water: Add a couple of wikilinks
Diff · History 1,266 Water: Description of new Suncor Tailings Reduction Operations method
Diff · History 87 Venezuela: Clarify what this is 90% of (see talk)
Diff · History 124 Canada: Clarify what this is 85% of (see talk).
Diff · History 16 Production: Canadian production has not declined, although work on new projects has been put on hold
Diff · History -291 Undid revision 257354543 by 205.210.232.62 (talk) ...None of that edit was correct, dude.
Diff · History -29 Undid revision 236328107 by 216.208.232.174 (talk)
Diff · History 286 Reserves: Citation for political problems in Venezuela's oil industry
Diff · History 488 Reserves: More accurate Canadian production numbers with citation
Diff · History 106 A bit more refactoring and rearranging
Diff · History 58 Reorganization into more logical order with headings
Diff · History 39 Add a couple of headings to reduce size of introduction
Diff · History -19 No, let's tell what the REAL problem is - the bitumen does not flow through pipelines at normal temperatures.
Diff · History 341 Cold flow: A basic citation for cold flow
Diff · History 444 Cold flow: Citation as requested. If you are having trouble getting to sleep, this will help.
Diff · History 2 Extraction process: Correct typo
Diff · History 232 Surface mining: Add requested citation
Diff · History 1,101 As oil source, by location: More information, more citations.
Diff · History 1,143 USA: More info and a citation for US "tar" sands. Tarrier than Canadian oil sands.
Diff · History 249 Cleanup of text on conventional oil production. It's not as simple or clean as many people think.
Diff · History -209 As oil source, by location: Use new conversion templates, some cleanup of text
Diff · History 492 Canada: Update the information using the latest reference, new conversion templates
Diff · History 15 Put a name on the reference so it can be referred to elsewhere in the article
Diff · History 285 Add reference for production of and problems with coal tar (which is not what we are talking about here)
Diff · History 866 Clean up this header with more chemically accurate information and citations from reliable sources
Diff · History 94 Extraction process: Give the exact date of startup rather than number of years (which changes yearly).
Diff · History 321 NPOV. The former edit was historically and chemically inaccurate incorrect - basically a political statement with no factual content.
Diff · History 11 Canada: Change area comparison to England, use some conversion templates
Diff · History -38 Local direct effects:
Diff · History 0 Local direct effects:
Diff · History 348 Local direct effects: Reinsert reference - there are very few credible sources on environmental info. What is YOUR interpretation of what this document says?
Diff · History 624 Local direct effects: Actual environmental conditions in the area
Diff · History -303 Revert edit by 67.100.148.155 to last version by LeadSongDog. Source checked and found to be inaccurate. YOU can do better!
Diff · History 6 Global direct effects: Kyoto Accord -> Kyoto Protocol. Diplomatic jargon correctness.
Diff · History 732 Global direct effects: Nuclear power in the oil sands, and lack of understanding of the implications thereof
Diff · History 799 Global direct effects: Update: Oil sands nuke project acquired by Bruce Power of Ontario
Diff · History 207 Environmental impacts: Fix up citation
Diff · History 1,202 Canada: Profits on oil sands production
Diff · History 1,112 Environmental impacts: Additional data and citations
Diff · History 840 Environmental impacts: Correct water and gas consumption numbers using latest reports
Diff · History 18 As oil source, by location: Clean up location a bit. There are only minor amounts of oil sand in Saskatchewan compared to Alberta.
Diff · History 1,163 Clean up the header and remove inaccuracies
Diff · History -484 Health impacts: Deleted. Section consist of one vague rumor with no citations, and a rebuttal which is mostly off-topic.
Diff · History 27 Canada:
Diff · History 802 Canada: More information on oil sands projects
Diff · History 293 Venezuela:
Diff · History 2,221 Location: Added Venezuelan oil sands
Diff · History 320 Canada: More info about the Canadian oil sands
Diff · History 1,247 Location: added more information on Canadian oil sands
Diff · History 58 Cold Flow:
Diff · History 437 Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD): added external links
Diff · History -8 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS): added external links
Diff · History 102 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS): added external links
Diff · History 196 Surface Mining: added external links
Diff · History -7 External links:
Diff · History 24 Extraction process: Consolidated Cold Flow
Diff · History -1 External links:
Diff · History 217 External links: Added NEB link
Diff · History 84 Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD): More links
Diff · History 90 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS):
Diff · History 40 Surface Mining:
Diff · History 395 Extraction process: Added more links
Diff · History 44 Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD): Added links to other articles
Diff · History 317 Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD): Added links to other articles
Diff · History 18 Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS): Added links to other articles
Diff · History 48 Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS): Added links to other articles
Diff · History 35 Cold Flow: Added references to other articles
Diff · History 176 Surface Mining: Added links to other articles
Diff · History 4,413 Extraction process: Added information about new in-situ methods
Diff · History 408 External links: A number of new oil sands links
Diff · History 55 Location:
Diff · History 422 Location: Added more detail, eliminated difference between US and UK "trillion"
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Diff · History 350 Added in-situ production to surface mining
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