I seem to remember coming across some crude as a kid, not like in the wild, but when I was with my dad on deliveries. This would have been back when the tar sands were still un/starting to be developed. The shit stinks like crazy if I remember right, and its gross to touch. Think I seen crude, tar sands, and refined oil all in the same place, point in time. Cant remember the context around why I was able to get that close to it, so, hell its so fuzzy, it might have even been a dream at this point
Smelly sounds about right. The Canadian stuff (or at least the tar sands stuff) is really high in sulpher, too, to the point where we’re a pretty big exporter of it as a refining byproduct. A big part of the reason they don’t give crude to just anybody is that it occasionally belches out a potentially toxic amount of hydrogen sulphide (H2S).
I seem to remember coming across some crude as a kid, not like in the wild, but when I was with my dad on deliveries. This would have been back when the tar sands were still un/starting to be developed. The shit stinks like crazy if I remember right, and its gross to touch. Think I seen crude, tar sands, and refined oil all in the same place, point in time. Cant remember the context around why I was able to get that close to it, so, hell its so fuzzy, it might have even been a dream at this point
Smelly sounds about right. The Canadian stuff (or at least the tar sands stuff) is really high in sulpher, too, to the point where we’re a pretty big exporter of it as a refining byproduct. A big part of the reason they don’t give crude to just anybody is that it occasionally belches out a potentially toxic amount of hydrogen sulphide (H2S).