From 2016, this should load as a pdf (previously posted, but being re-posted as a reminder):
Data points:
- an abstract from "Search and Discovery Article #51285 (2016)
- presented at AAPG annual convention, Calgary, Alberta, CA, June 19 -22, 2016
- Mississippian age Hartselle Sandstone of northwestern Alabama
- estimates:
- 7.5 billion bbls of bitumen (think western Canadian sands heavy oil)
- roughly 350 million bbls within 50 feet of the surface
- no commercial development has occurred as of yet
- Alabama Oil Sands Program (AOSP) established
- apparently still testing outcrops
- the graphic at the linked article suggests AOS about one-third the geographic footprint of Alberta's Athabasca
- Alberta's oil sands: 174 billion bbls of bitumen
- Alabama: 7.5 billion bbls
- comparable to early estimates of the Bakken
Tea leaves suggest exploiting the oil sands in Alabama won't happen any time soon.
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