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1 APPENDIX C - In-situ production of Utah oil sands - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 20092009-10Utah; Uinta Basin; Oil sand reservoirs; Whiterocks; Sunnyside; Oil; Oil extraction; In-situ; Heavy oil production; BitumenTwo oil sand reservoirs located in Utah's Uinta Basin were considered for analysis: Whiterocks, a small, steeply dipping, contained reservoir containing about 100 million barrels, and Sunnyside, a giant reservoir containing over four billion barrels of oil in place. Cyclic steam stimulation, steam a...
2 An analysis of the tar sand deposit on the Rocky Mountain exploration company whiterocks federal lease Uintah County, Utah1982-11Rocky Mountain Exploration Company (hereafter called Rocky) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas, holds a 240-acre federal combined hydrocarbon lease in Sections 17 and 18, T 2 N, R 1 E, UE5SM, Uintah County, Utah. The lease lies in the Ashley National Forest. Road distance is 27 miles north ...
3 Chemistry and mineralogy of natural bitumens and heavy oils and their reservoir rocks from the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela1989-12-21Twenty-one samples from natural bitumen and heavy oil deposits in seven States of the United States and six samples from outside the United States form the basis of this initial study. This Circular gives the mineral content of the reservoir rock, the trace-element distribution in the reservoir rock...
4 Heavy-oil resources of the United States1995heavy-oil resources; United States; petroleum; heavy oilPetroleum is considered to originate from marine and terrestrial organic matter (composed principally of hydrogen and carbon) buried along with sediment. The organic molecules are eventually broken by thermal stress encountered during progressive burial. The product of this heating can be liquid and...
5 Quantitative methods for reservoir characterization and improved recovery: Application to heavy oil sands2002-05-15interwell reservoir heterogeneity; heavy oil sands; advanced analytical property-distribution methodsImproved prediction of interwell reservoir heterogeneity is needed to increase productivity and to reduce recovery cost for California's heavy oil sands, which contain approximately 2.3 billion barrels of remaining reserves in the Temblor Formation and in other formations of the San Joaquin Valley. ...
6 Quantitative methods for reservoir characterization and improved recovery: Application to heavy oil sands2001-10-30interwell reservoir heterogeneity; heavy oil sands; analytical property-distribution methods; reservoir simulationImproved prediction of interwell reservoir heterogeneity is needed to increase productivity and to reduce recovery cost for California's heavy oil sands, which contain approximately 2.3 billion barrels of remaining reserves in the Temblor Formation and in other formations of the San Joaquin Valley. ...
7 Heavy oil and natural bitumen-strategic petroleum resources2003-07heavy oil; natural bitumen; strategic petroleum resources; conventional oil; light oilBecause conventional light oil can typically be produced at a high rate and a low cost, it has been used before other types of oil. Thus, conventional oil accounts for a declining share of the Earth's remaining oil endowment. In addition to assessing conventional oil resources, scientists of the U.S...
8 Basin oriented strategies for CO2 enhanced oil recovery: Alaska2005-04Alaska; North Slope; Cook Inlet; Oil; Gas; Oil recovery; EOR; CO2; Carbon dioxide; Oil fields; Oil production industryThe oil and gas producing regions of Alaska have nearly 45 billion barrels of oil which will be left in the ground, or "stranded", following the use of today's oil recovery practices. A major portion of this "stranded oil" is in reservoirs technically and economically amenable to enhanced oil recove...
9 Basin oriented strategies for CO2 enhanced oil recovery: Rocky Mountain Region2006-02Rocky Mountain; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Oil; Gas; Enhanced oil recovery; EOR; CO2; Carbon dioxide injection; Oil fields; Basin oriented strategies; Domestic oil productionThe Rocky Mountain oil and gas producing region of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming has an original oil endowment of nearly 34 billion barrels. Of this, 11 billion barrels (33%) has been produced or proven. As such, nearly 23 billion barrels of oil will be left in the ground, or "stranded", following the ...
10 Investigation of tar sand and heavy oil deposits of Utah for underground coal gasification applications1985-12tar sand; heavy oil deposits; underground coal gasification; UCG applicationsA literature review was conducted to determine spatial and geological relationships between Utah's tar sand or heavy oil deposits and coal deposits and to evaluate these relationships in terms of suitability for underground coal gasification (UCG) applications. The investigation was undertaken as pa...
11 Reactivation of an idle lease to increase heavy oil recovery through application of conventional steam drive technology in a low dip slope and basin reservoir in the midway-sunset field, San Joaquin Basin, California2002-02heavy oil recovery; conventional steam drive technology; Midway-Sunset fieldA previously idle portion of the Midway-Sunset field, Aera Energy's Pru Fee property, has been brought back into commercial production through tight integration of geologic characterization, geostatistical modeling, reservoir simulation, and petroleum engineering. This property, shut-in over a decad...
12 Geologic influences on the in situ processing of tar sand at the northwest Asphalt Ridge deposit, Utah1985-01in situ oil recovery field experiments; oil recovery; tar sand; in situ tar sand processing; Asphalt Ridge depositThe Laramie Energy Technology Center, Department of Energy, completed three in situ oil recovery field experiments, two combustion and one steamflood, in tar sand at Northwest Asphalt Ridge, Utah. Inadequate resource and site characterization prior to the field experiments contributed to process des...
13 In-situ combustion handbook--principles and practices1999-01in-situ combustion; oil reservoir; oil recovery; field trials; fireflood projects; combustion projectsFor nearly 90 years in-situ combustion technique has been used in the U.S. in attempts to improve recovery from oil reservoirs. Despite its long history and commercial success of many field projects, the process has not found widespread acceptance among operators due to the excessive number of failu...
14 APPENDIX B - Depositional heterogeneity and fluid flow modeling of the oil shale interval of the upper Green River Formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Utah - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 20092009-10Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Utah; Uintah County; Oil shale; DepositionIn this project, a detailed geological analysis was performed followed by a reservoir modeling exercise. For the geological analysis, ~300 m of cores were correlated to gamma and density logs in well P4 in the lower to middle Eocene (49.5-48.0 million years ago (Ma)), upper Green River Formation of ...
15 Comparison of laboratory and field steamfloods in tar sandIn situ recovery technologies for tar sand and heavy oil are simulated at the Western Research Institute to prepare for pilot tests and commercial operations. Wide ranges of process parameters are tested in one-dimensional reactor tubes in which the tar sand or heavy oil is uniformly reconstituted t...
16 Research investigations in oil shale, tar sand, coal research, advanced exploratory process technology, and advanced fuels research: Volume 2--jointly sponsored research program1994-09oil shale; tar sand; coal research; advanced exporatory process technology; advanced fuels research; JSRP; Contained Recovery of Oily WastesThis report summarizes the major research investigations conducted by the Western Research Institute (WRI) under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC21-86MCll076 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over the period October 1986 through September 1993. In 1989 a Jointly Sponsored Research Program (JSRP) w...
17 Bituminous sands and viscous crude oils1964-10-10Bituminous sands; Viscous crude oils; Rocky Mountain region; Low gravity; high viscosity; Heavy crude oil; Quiet Revolution; Thermal recovery; Utah; Bituminous sandstone depositsBituminous sandstones of the Rocky Mountain region contain large reserves of low gravity, highly viscous oil that can be recovered at costs equal to or less than the cost of finding and producing oil from conventional methods. Heavy crude oil is defined as "oil which cannot be produce through the no...
18 Definition and world resources of natural bitumens1990Natural bitumens, semisolid or solid mixtures of hydrocarbons and as much as 50 percent heterocyclic compounds, are composed largely of carbon and hydrogen but have substituents of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and trace metals, especially iron, nickel, and vanadium. Bitumens are soluble in organic solv...
19 Appraisal of the technical and economic potential of U.S. tar sands1986-11U.S. tar sands constitute a large, essentially undeveloped resource that could, with technological advances. provide an important source for future liquid supplies of petroleum. The identified resource base, as reported in the update to the 19B3 report by the Interstate Oil Compact Commission (IDCC)...
20 Petroleum technology advances through applied research by independent oil producers2000-01petroleum technology; independant oil producers; National Oil Research Program"Petroleum Technology Advances Through Applied Research by Independent Oil Producers" is a program of the National Oil Research Program, U.S. Department of Energy. Between 1995 and 1998, the program competitively selected and costs shared twenty-two projects with small producers. The purpose was to ...
21 Quantitative methods for reservoir characterization and improved recovery: Application to heavy oil sands2002-10-30interwell reservoir heterogeneity; heavy oil sands; advanced analytical property-distribution methods; reservoir characterizationImproved prediction of interwell reservoir heterogeneity has the potential to increase productivity and to reduce recovery cost for California's heavy oil sands, which contain approximately 2.3 billion barrels of remaining reserves in the Temblor Formation and in other formations of the San Joaquin ...
22 Downhole hydraulic mining system1985-07-31Oil-bearing sands; Oil field; Wellbore; Downhole hydraulic mining system; California; Utah; Kentucky; New Mexico; Canada; Venezuela; Oil; Deposits; Strip miningThe 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...
23 Quantitative methods for reservoir characterization and improved recovery: Application to heavy oil sands2000-10-24subsurface geological characteristics; petrophysical properties; measurement of permeability; reservoir characterizationComparison and integration of data from field investigations in southern Utah with results from Coalinga Field in California is yielding a better understanding of the distributions of subsurface geological characteristics and petrophysical properties. A new minipermeameter probe was developed for me...
24 Attachment 2 - Statement of program objectives clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources2011-12ICSE; Oil shale research; Energy; Oil sands resources; Domestic oil shale; Environmental impact; Basin scale simulation; Liquid fuel production; In-situ thermal processing; Environmental; Legal; Policy issues; University of UtahThis Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO) reflects the performance period from October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2013. It includes tasks/subtasks funded in fiscal year 2009 (Phase 1) and tasks/subtasks funded in fiscal year 2010 (Phase II). Tasks/subtasks initiated during Phase I that are anti...
25 In situ RF heating for oil sand and heavy-oil deposits1985-05in situ RF heating; oil sand; heavy-oil deposits; IITRI; energy efficiency; in situ radio-frequency heating process; oil shale; tar sandSince the mid 1970s, IIT Research Institute (IITRI) has been developing an energy efficient, in situ radio-frequency (RF) heating process. Large blocks of oil shale or tar sand typically found in the Western United States have been emplanted with closely spaced electrodes and excited electromagnetic...
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