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Nwizug-bee Leyii Kluivert
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Kuban State Technological University
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Nigeria has the largest oil sands and bitumen resources
in Africa and is one of the main leading countries in the
world from the point of view of its significant potential
heavy oil deposits. Research of geological and physicochemical
properties confirmed that the Nigerian bitumen
is an important energy source and an alternative source
of hydrocarbon feedstock for the petrochemical industry.
Nigeria imports black oil for the petrochemical industry
and its heavy oil can act in place of this black oil. In
addition, researchers have successfully established the
possibility of producing electrical energy from this
heavy oil. Tar sands and bitumen are able to help
improve the economy of Nigeria
In Nigeria, belt of bituminous sand stretches to the East
of Ijebu-Ode (Ogun State) in the district of Siluko and
Akotogbo, Okitipupa (Ondo Sate) and Edo State. It
covers a distance of approximately 110 km and lies in
the upper cretaceous sequence of the Abeokuta
formation in the eastern Dahomey Basin. Reserves of
bituminous sand in Nigeria is estimated to be around 30-
40 billion barrels with a possibility to extract 3654 × 106
barrels. From the approximately 30-40 billion barrels of
oil sand, Ogun State has more than 40% in reserve.
However, this huge stock of oil sand in Nigeria is yet to
be exploited. This article provides an assessment of
technological solutions for the design and development
of tar sand fields in Nigeria. Reserves of oil sand in
Nigeria are the biggest in the whole of Africa