Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt

Japanese: オリノコ・ヘビーオイルベルト - おりのこへびーおいるべると
Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt

…The majority of the oil sands deposits are in western Canada (44%) and eastern Venezuela (50%), each of which is equivalent in size to the original reserves of the entire Middle East oil fields. The Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt in eastern Venezuela is said to have a recoverable reserve of 270-296.6 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). …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのほとんどを占めるカナダ西部(44%)およびベネズエラ東部(50%)のオイルサンド鉱床は,それぞれ単独で中東の全油田の原始埋蔵量に匹敵する大きさである。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。…

※「オリノコ・ヘビーオイルベルト」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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