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Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune A bucket of extracted crude oil from Petrotech Energy's Asphalt Ridge quarry, Thurs... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petroteq Energy's processing plant, Thursday, June 14, 2018, is located on Asphalt R... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune ÒBy crushing it down so small you are increasing the surface area of the oil sands f... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petroteq Energy's processing plant, Thursday, June 14, 2018, is located on Asphalt R... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petroteq Energy CEO David Sealock holds a handful of clean, dry sand that was, minute... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune ÒI call it our secret sauce, said Petroteq Energy chairman Gerald Bailey, right, of... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petrotech Energy claims to have perfected a process to extract commercial quantitie... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petroteq Energy's processing plant, Thursday, June 14, 2018, is located on Asphalt R... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Petroteq Energy's processing plant, Thursday, June 14, 2018, is located on Asphalt R... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune All the the gray clay we have found in association with the oil sands has very low p... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune ÒIt is Mother NatureÕs oil spill. We are here to clean it up,Ó said Petroteq Energy C... Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune ÒItÕs weeping oil,Ó said Donald Clark, a geologist with Petroteq Energy, of the bit...