There are some signs that stocks of more viscous oil are building, since it is harder (and less profitable) to refine.

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Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.

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