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Alberta tar sands
Arabian-Iranian basin oil fields
northern Eurasian oil and gas fields
oil and gas fields of North America
Deepwater oil-loading port off Sitrah island, Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf.
Colombia: oil refinery
Siberia, Russia: oil well
seismic exploration
Central Asia's oil resererves and pipelines.
The environmental impact of Canada's oil sands industry
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