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Early use of petroleum or mineral oil, as opposed to animal or plant oils, was by direct harvesting of the crude product from generally superficial surface seeps and springs. For example tar, obtained from the Pitch Lake (La Brea) area, Trinidad, has been used for the caulking of ships since the Middle Ages and is still marketed to the extent of about 142,000 tonnes per year [1, 2]. Tar from the Alberta tar sands was used in the 1700’s by Cree Indians of the Athabasca river area to seal their canoes, as recorded by Peter Pond. Also a thick bituminous gum was collected from the soil surface in the vicinity of the St. Clair River, Southern Ontario [3], and from Guanoco Lake, Venezuela [4], and these too were marketed for a range of purposes.
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Hocking, M.B. (1985). Petroleum Production and Transport. In: Modern Chemical Technology and Emission Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69773-9_15
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