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The oil sands of Alberta are consolidated, held together by the pore-filling bitumen. The bitumen is a natural tar-like mixture of hydrocarbons. For recovering it steam is injected down the reservoir. This heats the bitumen. It soaks for sometime, and then the same wellbore is used to pump up fluids, which are sent to the processing plants.
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