Talk:Orinoco Belt

merge Orinoco Belt with Orinoco tar sands?
Interesting, both articles date back to 2005. Darn, I guess we should go with Orinoco Belt.
 * Orinoco Tar Sands was started seven months earlier.
 * Orinoco Belt is longer, has more edits, and more articles link to it.

Annoying because I never agreed with the move of Athabasca Tar Sands to Athabasca Oil Sands -- which I saw as a surrender to power of deceitful spin doctors. Oil Sands being the new term invented by shills to mask how truly dirty current extraction methods are. Geo Swan (talk) 03:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support merge.Beagel (talk) 20:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * MERGE Yeah, hurry up and merge it already.--Marhawkman (talk) 14:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Water supply?
In Alberta every barrel extracted requires several barrels of water. Alberta is relatively dry. The Athabasca water that is used contains a large measure of glacial meltwater. What is the water supply like in the Orinoco region?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 03:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a bloody rain forest! Too much water is often the problem.

66.77.107.100 (talk) 07:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Figures
There are different figures for the amount of oil in the Canadian sands and the Venezuelan ones.

Here it says: It is estimated that at least 66% of the world's petroleum reserves are preserved in oil sand form, with 32% (270 km³ or 1.7 trillion barrels) of oil sand deposits coming from Athabasca and 34% (286 km³ or 1.8 trillion barrels) from Orinoco.

Yet in this section of the Tar Sands article it claims that there is more oil in Canada.

Tar sands represent as much as 66% of the world's total reserves of oil, with at least 1.7 trillion barrels (1.7×1012 bbl or 270×109 m3) in the Canadian Athabasca Tar Sands and 1.6 trillion barrels (1.6×1012 bbl or 254×109 m3) in the Venezuelan Orinoco tar sands, compared to 1.75 trillion barrels (1.75×1012 bbl or 278×109 m3) of conventional oil worldwide, most of it in Saudi Arabia and other Middle-Eastern countries.

Could this please be clarified? peter12220

Second Paragraph/Sentence
I had to read this about four times to get it... Could you try rewriting it in a few straight forward sentences??

Msjayhawk (talk) 20:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)