Oil Sand is a type oil deposit, which is mixed with clay and water, and needs special process to be extracted. While there are lots of oil sands deposits across the world all cannot be mined to extract oils from them. Tar Sands Utah in United States is a feasible deposit from which bitumen (clay mixed oil) can be extracted. It is a place where much of the oil sands are concentrated. This is a complex procedure in which firstly big clay blocks need to broken and then the bitumen needs to be diluted.

After extraction, the bitumen also needs additional processing so that it can become a lighter form of hydrocarbon from which oil petroleum products can be made. The typical process of oil sands recovery has stages of extraction, separation, refinement that need to be carried out to have oil. This oil should be fluid enough to be transported through pipelines. The crude extracted bitumen is so viscous that it cannot be sent by pipe; hence the extra dilution process is required for this kind of oil.

Sands Oil Company needs to mine the tar sands and then process them in order to recover oil from them. Several people have raised concerns that the process used by Oil Companies in Utah is not ECO friendly and releases large amounts of smoke and harmful gases in the environment. Moreover the whole process requires other forms of energy (like coal, electricity) that makes it exorbitant. However the Canadian company MCW Energy Group has achieved breakthrough process which significantly reduces the ecological impact.

This Oil Sands Extraction Technology significantly reduces the cost in terms of energy as well as reduces the ecological impact. This technique is capable of capturing the CO2 emissions, which can be injected into the tailings of slurry. This creates the carbonic acid, which changes the pH level of the tailings mixture. This allows for cleaner and reusable water. It can definitely make bitumen recovered from Oil Sands Utah more economic. The Oil Companies Utah should make use of such innovative technologies and mine the oil to meet the requirements of the nation as well as the world at large.