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1 day ago · Prudhoe Bay was the largest conventional oil field ever discovered in North America, but was much smaller than Canada's enormous Athabasca oil sands field, which by 2014 was producing about 1,500,000 barrels per day (240,000 m 3 /d) of unconventional oil, and had hundreds of years of producible reserves at that rate.
1 hour ago · Appel, Mason, and Watts divide oil anthropology into four approaches: (a) the resource curse focused on oil money, oil politics of states and the political elite; (b) oil as violence, focused on big oil and big military, and imperial states competing for a diminishing resource; (c) oil as modernity, focused on the relationship between oil and consumerism, modern amenities, carbon emissions and ...
