Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations

Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations delivers a critical reference for today's energy engineers to gain an accurate understanding of anticipated GHG emissions in heavy oil recovery. Structured to break down every method with introductions, case studies, technical limitations and summaries, this reference gives engineers a look at the latest hybrid approaches needed to continue tackling heavy oil recoveries while calculating carbon footprint. Starting from basic definitions and rounding out with future challenges, it will help energy engineers collectively evolve heavy oil recovery with sustainability applications in mind. Explains environmental footprint considerations within each recovery method Includes the latest hybrid methods such as Hybrid of Air-CO2N2 and Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) Bridges practical knowledge through case studies, summaries and remaining technical challenges INDICE: 1. Heavy oil and Bitumen Characterization2. Fundamental of Heavy Oil Recovery3. Non-Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery4. In-Situ Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery5. Steam Based Heavy oil Recovery6. Solvent-Steam Co-Injection7. Non-Condensable Gas-Steam Co-Injection8. Chemical-Steam Co-Injection9. Hybrid of In-Situ Combustion and Steam-Based Heavy Oil Recovery10. Hybrid of Electromagnetic Heating and SAGD Process 11. Practical Challenges in Reservoir Simulation of In-Situ Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery

• ISBN: 978-0-323-90848-1
• Editorial: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés