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In Situ Process for Oil Sand Reserves
If the Capri/Thai processes are successful then Canada's oilsands, other oilsands and heavy oil deposits around the world will have higher recovery rates using a more economic process and the oil will be upgrading in the ground to a higher and more valuable quality......In the THAI system, an air pressure-driven combustion front loosens heavy oil as it slowly works its way forward, and the freed oil flows under gravity through slots in horizontal collector pipes, then is gas-lifted to surface processing systems....[more at link; in addition to the quantity increase the quality of the recovered product is also expected to increase] Posted by: mhw 2008-09-18 |
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