Athabasca deposits

Japanese: アサバスカ鉱床 - あさばすかこうしょう
Athabasca deposits

...The Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt in eastern Venezuela is said to have recoverable reserves of 270 billion to 296.6 billion barrels, with original reserves of 1.2 trillion barrels (1 barrel = 0.159 kl). There are more than 900 billion barrels of oil sands in Alberta, Canada, distributed mainly in four regions: the Athabasca deposit (625 billion barrels), the Cold Lake deposit (164 billion barrels), the Wabasca deposit (53 billion barrels), and the Peace River deposit (50 billion barrels). Of these, the Athabasca deposit is the world's largest independent hydrocarbon deposit. ...

*Some of the terms mentioned in the "Athabasca deposit" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…東部ベネズエラのオリノコ・ヘビーオイルベルトでは,1.2兆バレル(1バレル=0.159kl)の原始埋蔵量に対し,2700億~2966億バレルの可採鉱量があるといわれている。カナダのアルバータ州には9000億バレル以上のオイルサンドが埋蔵されており,主としてアサバスカ鉱床(6250億バレル),コールドレーク鉱床(1640億バレル),ワバスカ鉱床(530億バレル),ピースリバー鉱床(500億バレル)の4地域に分布している。このうち,アサバスカ鉱床は,独立の炭化水素鉱床としては世界最大のものである。…

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