Utah oil sands

In the United States a large supply of oil sands are found in Eastern Utah.

These deposits of bitumen or heavy crude oil have the ability to generate about 12 to 19 billion barrels from a number of prominent sites.

They are mainly close together and many are found within the Uintah Basin of Utah, which is a section of the Colorado Plateaus province.

[2] The Tar Sand Triangle is located in Southeastern Utah and covers an area of 148,000 acres (600 km2).

At one point the Tar Sand Triangle could have consisted of 16 billion barrels of heavy oil, almost as much as in Utah today.