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1 | The bitumen-bearing Paleozoic carbonate trend of northern Alberta | 1987 | Paleozoic carbonate trend; northern Alberta; bitumen; Cretaceous oil sands; Canada; crude oil; nonconventional oil resources | Huge quantities of bitumen are contained within the Devonian and Mississippian carbonate horizons that subcrop beneath the Cretaceous oil sands of northern Alberta. To date, however, a detailed evaluation of the economic potential of this resource has been confined primarily to the Upper Devonian Gr... | |
2 | Downhole hydraulic mining system | 1985-07-31 | Oil-bearing sands; Oil field; Wellbore; Downhole hydraulic mining system; California; Utah; Kentucky; New Mexico; Canada; Venezuela; Oil; Deposits; Strip mining | The downhole hydraulic mining system is designed to exploit deposits of oil-bearing sands that are not economically producible using current oil field or mining technology. In most cases, the hydrocarbon in the reservoir is too viscous to flow into the wellbore naturally and applications of heat (st... | |
3 | Update on North American oil shale, oil sands, and heavy oil resource development | 2008-03-12 | Unconventional fuel resources; U.S.; Canada; RH&D; Oil shale; Oil sands | Large unconventional fuel resources exist in the U.S. & Canada -Processing technologies for oil sands are well-developed in Canada, but those processes cannot be directly applied to U.S. resources; oil shale processing technologies have yet to be commercialized -RH&D leases are a roadmap for future ... |