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The Oil Sands and Economic, Environmental and Political Aspects of their Utilization
Tormová, Lucia ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
The intention of the work is to find, name and explain key factors, which will most likely influence the future of oil sands. The work offers in direct connection with predicted future global energy consumption and with further factors various views on their utilization possibilities. It focuses on evaluation of obstacles within oil sands sector and provides with adequate solutions. The aim of the work is to estimate appropriate conditions for bitumen as well. The first chapter analyzes the current state of world oil resources and verifies the peak oil theory. The second chapter describes oil sands characteristics and their exploitation. The third one focuses on bitumen price, on oil price, which is required by oil sands industry and on extraction costs. The fourth chapter is trying to solve the environmental issues and the fifth one possible political consequences.

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