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National Assessment of Oil and Gas Fact Sheet

Natural Bitumen Resources of the United States

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Major natural bitumen accumulations in the United States are estimated to contain about 36 billion barrels of measured in-place resource and about 18 billion barrels of speculative in-place resource. Major natural bitumen resources are in Alabama, Alaska, California, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

 

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Posted December 2006

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