2019.2.27 The results show: (1) For geological resources, CNPC estimate 991.18 billion tonnes of heavy oil and 501.26 billion tonnes of oil sands globally, of which
Read More[email protected] Expansion of oil sands development results not only in the release of greenhouse gas emissions, but also impacts land and water
Read More2010.2.1 The vast oil reserves in the oil sands of Alberta will become a major source of petroleum products in the near future and a number of alternative technologies have
Read More2020.3.12 Weili Xiong Haiyan Zhou 1334 Accesses 2 Citations Explore all metrics Abstract Oil sands are characterized by shallow burial and extremely high viscosity,
Read More2021.2.13 The exploration of heavy oils such as oil sands, tight oils, and heavy oils, is thus becoming a necessity in a bid to alleviating the energy crisis. The processing of
Read More2014.8.1 Oil sands are a mixture of “bitumen” (a very viscous, heavily biodegraded crude oil), unconsolidated sand, and water bound together by the bitumen and confining
Read More2022.9.8 Based on the in-house studies and field successful production of heavy oil reservoirs in area “D” in China, a set integrated technologies for developing
Read MorePotential as a crude oil source. Of the world’s total oil resources, about 21 percent are heavy oils and about 30 percent are tar sands, though not all of these resources are considered recoverable. The development of heavy
Read More2022.2.1 Unconventional oil resources such as heavy oil, oil sands, shale oil and oil shale are abundant in China. They are expected to be exploited by the subsurface
Read More2022.7.21 Several numerical simulations of RF heating have been carried out previously on the estimation of heavy oil recovery capabilities. Experimental efforts, however, are needed to comprehensively evaluate the performance of RF heating technology. In this study, an RF heating experimental system with the maximum output
Read More2022.11.6 Oil sands composition: Oil sands are made up of water, sand, heavy oil, and other mineral. Con- ventional production methods are insufficient to tap these unconventional non-renewable resources,
Read More2021.1.1 1.1. Introduction to heavy oil and oil sands reservoirs1.1.1. Distribution of heavy oil resources. Heavy crude oil refers to liquid petroleum whose American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity is less than 20° or viscosity is higher than 100 cp under reservoir conditions.Oil sands resources (tar sands) are another kind of heavy oil resources whose
Read More2020.3.12 Fengcheng oil sands are located in Wuerhe District of Karamay, Xinjiang, about 120 km northeast of Karamay, whose tectonic zones lie in the northwest of proved and developed Fengcheng super-heavy oil reservoir (Fig. 1).Oil sand layers overlap the edge of the bedrock foothills with shallow burial; some are even directly exposed to the surface.
Read More2018.10.23 Worldwide heavy oil and bitumen deposits amount to 9 trillion barrels of oil distributed in over 280 basins around the world, with Canada home to oil sands deposits of 1.7 trillion barrels.
Read More2023.8.28 The sand essentially creates wormholes through which the bitumen can flow more easily. Currently, CHOPS is only employed in the Cold Lake oil sands area. The 2002 Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand in the Canadian Heavy Oil Industry provides more information. Vapour recovery extraction and pulse technologies have been tested.
Read More2015.8.1 Empirical analysis is conducted on seven typical heavy oil technologies. The study finds that geological factors account for the largest proportion, and the top five indicators in terms of weight are buried depth, recovery factor, viscosity, operating cost per tonne of oil and reservoir thickness. ... A comparative study of oil sands preheating ...
Read More2019.12.1 At 2016, Guo et al. [37] elaborated the in-situ catalytic upgradation of heavy oil, which is an effective and environmentally friendly heavy oil recovery technology. Since TM catalysts exhibit superior performance on the degradation of heavy components and the elimination of heteroatom-containing compounds, satisfactory viscosity reduction ...
Read MoreOccurrence and Formation of Crude Oil and Natural Gas. James G. Speight, in Subsea and Deepwater Oil and Gas Science and Technology, 2015 1.4.8 Heavy Oil. Heavy oil is a type of crude oil that is different from conventional crude oil insofar as they are much more difficult to recover from the subsurface reservoir (Meyer and Attanasi, 2003; Speight,
Read MoreThe oil sands (or tar sands as they are sometimes inaccurately referred to), are a mixture of sand, water, clay and a type of oil called bitumen. Thanks to innovation and technology we can recover oil from the oil sands,
Read More2010.2.1 Extra heavy oil has been commercially produced from Alberta's massive oil sands resources for four decades. Through the evolution of technology, the efficiency and performance of oil sands extraction, separation and upgrading technology has advanced, while operating costs have fallen. In 2005, Alberta produced more than 1
Read More2019.2.1 Global recoverable resources of heavy oil and oil sands have been assessed by CNPC using a geology‐based assessment method combined with the traditional volumetric method, spatial interpolation method, parametric‐probability method etc. The most favourable areas for exploration have been selected in accordance with a
Read More2022.2.1 Downhole electric heating and exploitation technology. Unconventional oil resources such as heavy oil, oil sands, shale oil and oil shale are abundant in China. They are expected to be exploited by the subsurface electric heating system and exploitation technology, with the help of renewable energy power such as wind power and
Read More2016.12.1 This report intends to review the recent progresses in in-situ heavy and extra-heavy oils recovery and aims to provide systematic knowledge for petroleum engineers in developing new technologies to achieve higher recovery factor from reservoirs. 2. Heavy and extra-heavy oils. 2.1.
Read More2010.2.1 Raytheon and CF Technologies are jointly working on technology to facilitate production of oil shale and oil sands and heavy oil deposits. They developed an extraction methodology involving radio frequency and critical fluids [28]. Under this extraction process, oil wells are drilled into shale strata using standard oil industry equipment.
Read More2010.2.1 Microwave-Promoted Desulfurization of Heavy and Sulfur-Containing Crude Oil. N. Leadbeater M. R. Khan. Chemistry, Engineering. 2008. We have probed the effect of microwave irradiation on desulfurization of crude oil and dibenzothiophene. A range of catalysts have been screened.
Read MoreIt is understood that oil sands technologies produce 10–20% more greenhouse gases than the average conventional fuel when calculating life cycle emissions from well to wheel, ... The produced water has a variety of harmful chemicals, from heavy metals to napthenic acids, which are of concern due to their toxicity to aquatic organisms, birds ...
Read More2018.9.14 The oil production from any well passes through three stages. The first stage is the natural extraction of oil under the well pressure, the second stage starts when the well pressure decreases. This second stage includes flooding the well with water via pumping sea or brackish water to increase the well pressure and push the oil up
Read More2014.1.1 1. Introduction. With global estimates of over 6 trillion barrels, the majority of the world’s petroleum is stored in the form of biodegraded heavy oil and oil sand (bitumen) reservoirs [1], [2].In Western Canada alone, there are over 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen trapped in oil sand reservoirs [3].This volume in place is second only to the conventional
Read More2016.4.21 coming from Saudi Arabia. However, when the reserves of heavy oil and tar sand bitumen are taken into account, the balance shifts. Venezuela and Canada have substantial reserves of heavy oil and tar sand bitumen, suffi-cient to shift the balance of petroleum reserves from the Middle East to the Americas.
Read More2014.8.1 Oil sands are a mixture of “bitumen” (a very viscous, heavily biodegraded crude oil), unconsolidated sand, and water bound together by the bitumen and confining stresses. Economic incentives to produce reserves from the western Canada oil sands have driven geological and geochemical mapping to assess fluid quality controls and improve
Read More2010.12.17 oil sand Oil sands are sand grains coated by water and clay, with bitumen, an especially heavy, viscous crude oil, filling intervening pore spaces. Oil sands are found in 16 major deposits around the world, the two greatest being Canada’s Athabasca deposit and Venezuela’s Orinoco deposit.The Athabasca deposit is in the province of
Read More2007.2.1 The temperature was raised to 80 °C, and the mixture was stirred for 2 to 3 h until the ionic liquid was formed. 1.2 Upgrading experimental process 100 g heavy oil sample from Liaohe and 5 g of ionic liquid were put into an autoclave (internal volume, 200 mL), and the system was kept at 90 °C for the desired time period.
Read More2016.11.23 relative oil contents and the presence of the rich oil sands and heavy oil deposits, these carbonate deposits may be considered a resource for the distant future. 1.3 CHOPS and Other New Technologies . 1.3.1 CHOPS . The major heavy oil production technology discussed will be . CHOPS: C. old . H. eavy . O. il . P. roduction with . S
Read More2017.6.1 In the Alberta oil-sands and heavy-oil areas, most of the bitumen and heavy-oil is hosted within fluvial-to-estuarine and tidal marginal-marine deposits. ... Process analysis of a low emissions hydrogen and steam generation technology for oil sands operations. Appl. Energy, 146 (2015), pp. 184-195. View PDF View article View in
Read MoreOur oil sands and heavy oil operations. Cenovus launched the oil sands’ first commercial SAGD project in 2001 and has been a pioneer in the advancement of SAGD technology. We have no mining assets, tailings ponds or megaprojects. We have three producing oil sands projects in Alberta: Christina Lake, Foster Creek and Sunrise, as well as ...
Read More2022.6.9 Oil sands capex ran at about C$30bn annually before 2014, according to Alberta’s energy regulator. It was a period of high crude prices and a rush of inward investment. By 2021, though, the ...
Read More2016.10.20 Extra-Heavy Oil Technologies. Among the most emissions-intensive oils modeled in the OCI is a broad and evolving category of extra-heavy oils, including solid bitumen from Canada’s oil sands and the semisolid resources in Venezuela’s Orinoco oil
Read More