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Thermal Recovery of Oil and Bitumen Roger M. Butler
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One of the problems is that the current extraction Some these methods include thermal recovery, as well as chemical or gas injection. ET Energy's Electro Thermal technology could be used to pump out 600 billion barrels of Alberta's oil sands bitumen. Cenovus-christina-lake-oil-sands Experts say more bitumen will be recovered from thermal projects than traditional mining by 2015; but this latest report means that's already ahead of schedule. The steam produced is then distributed From the folks that brought you the first microwave nonlethal weapon system ( Makes you think your burning) are now after bitumen, tar sands & heavy oil, with peak power renewable energy. Alberta's Innovative Energy Technologies Program (IETP) is supporting 5 new pilot projects to reduce energy use, water use and CO2 emissions in oil sands processing as well as improving the recovery of crude oil and bitumen in reserves that were once unrecoverable. Raising the temperature of the host formation reduces the oil and bitumen viscosity, and, in environmental remediation, increases vapour pressure. This heat exchange unit is like a kettle, and the heat from high temperature and high pressure water is used to boil another, less pure, water stream recovered during oil production. Only 20% of the total amount of recoverable bitumen (the thick, tar-like form of petroleum) can be done through surface mining, leaving an overwhelming amount that will be extracted from In-Situ methods. The Alberta government believes that current technologies can recover only 169 billion barrels, leaving the bigger prize of 1.8 trillion barrels of bitumen locked beneath the province's soil. Alberta's vast oil sands — a mixture of sand, water and a semisolid form of petroleum called bitumen — account for 97 percent of Canada's proven crude oil reserves, making Canada the largest source of foreign oil for the world's According to a report by oil sands industry consulting firm Strategy West, “The primary disadvantage of steam-based thermal recovery techniques is the large amount of energy and water that must be consumed for the generation of steam. The onset that the 'tar sands' classification is scientifically incorrect , as he explains that “[tar sands] terminology should be avoided because oil sands are neither tar nor sands…tar is not a raw material; instead, it is a residual product that remains after severe thermal cracking of heavy oil”. Cyclic Solvent Process (CSP) at Imperial Oil's Cold Lake Project Imperial Oil is proposing an alternative to thermal recovery processes to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions from production by more than 90%. That's more than A 5 page research article on electrically stimulated oil recovery from 2000. The process is a non-thermal, mechanical land chemical closed-loop process to recover bitumen, and the chemical used in the process is non-toxic and biodegradable. Energy and Capital editor Keith Kohl discusses 3 oil investments that are booming from record oil prices. Thermal recovery methods, as applied in heavy oil and oil sand deposits, and in environmental remediation, have the common objective of accelerating the hydrocarbon recovery process. I used to work on SAGD and other thermal recovery processes to recover heavy oil and bitumen from heavy oil and oil sand reservoirs in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The successful projects were Imperial Oil is proposing an alternative to thermal recovery processes to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions from production by more than 90%. New technologies hold the key to .. Can oil sands/heavy oil/bitumen be mined or recovered through steam injection in an environmentally sustainable way that does not compromise valuable freshwater supplies?