The Athabaska River (Alberta, Canada) stretches 1,200 km from northern Alberta through the Northwest Territories to the Mackenzie River estuary. It drains an area rich in Oil Sands (OS) deposits and is considered one of the world's largest oil reserves with an estimated yield of 27 billion cubic meters of crude oil.
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