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APPENDIX C - In-situ production of Utah oil sands - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 2009 | 2009-10 | Utah; Uinta Basin; Oil sand reservoirs; Whiterocks; Sunnyside; Oil; Oil extraction; In-situ; Heavy oil production; Bitumen | Two 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... |
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An analysis of the tar sand deposit on the Rocky Mountain exploration company whiterocks federal lease Uintah County, Utah | 1982-11 | Rocky 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 ... | |
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Chemistry and mineralogy of natural bitumens and heavy oils and their reservoir rocks from the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela | 1989-12-21 | Twenty-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... | |
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Oil sands production technologies | 2008-02-22 | oil sands; oil sands production; production technologies; Utah oil sands | An overview of oil sands production technologies for Utah reserves. |
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Industrial petroleum research at the University of Utah | 2008-03-12 | industrial petroleum; University of Utah; oil and gas characterization; oil and gas thermodynamics; Unconventional Consortium | Expertise: Oil and Gas Characterization, Hydrocarbon Thermodynamics -High-temperature, high high-pressure oil oil-gas mixtures -Supercritical extraction -Solid (asphaltenes, waxes) precipitation precipitation -Reservoir Characterization and Simulation -Fractured reservoir simulation -Reaction chemis... |
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Basin oriented strategies for CO2 enhanced oil recovery: Alaska | 2005-04 | Alaska; North Slope; Cook Inlet; Oil; Gas; Oil recovery; EOR; CO2; Carbon dioxide; Oil fields; Oil production industry | The 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... |
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Basin oriented strategies for CO2 enhanced oil recovery: Rocky Mountain Region | 2006-02 | Rocky Mountain; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Oil; Gas; Enhanced oil recovery; EOR; CO2; Carbon dioxide injection; Oil fields; Basin oriented strategies; Domestic oil production | The 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 ... |
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Investigation of tar sand and heavy oil deposits of Utah for underground coal gasification applications | 1985-12 | tar sand; heavy oil deposits; underground coal gasification; UCG applications | A 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... |
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Evaluation of different in-situ recovery strategies | 2006-10 | in-situ recovery strategies; in-situ recovery; oil shale; thermal simulator; oil shale reservoirs; in-situ combustion; in-situ pyrolysis; modified in-situ process | Analysis of different in-situ production strategies from oil shale using a general purpose thermal simulator. |
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In situ production of Utah oil sands | 2009-02-27 | in situ; oil sands production; Utah oil sands; in situ process; thermal simulator; thermal compositional model; steam assisted gravity drainage; SAGD; heterogenetics; in-situ combustion; hydraulic fracture; hybrid process | Analysis of issues relevant to in situ production of Utah oil sands, presented at the 2009 Western U.S. Oil Sands Conference by Milind Deo, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah. |
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In-situ combustion handbook--principles and practices | 1999-01 | in-situ combustion; oil reservoir; oil recovery; field trials; fireflood projects; combustion projects | For 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... |
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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, 2009 | 2009-10 | Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Utah; Uintah County; Oil shale; Deposition | In 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 ... |
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Role of simulation in carbon management | 2013-05-07 | ICSE; Unconventional fuels; Carbon; CCS; Simulation | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
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Comparison of laboratory and field steamfloods in tar sand | In 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... | ||
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Production of oil shale from the Green River Formation in Utah | 2007-11 | oil shale; oil shale production; Green River formation. | The largest deposits of oil shale in the world are documented to be in the Green River Formation of western United States. If this oil resource (conservative estimate of 800 billion barrels recoverable) could be used to meet a quarter of the present U.S. demand for petroleum products, the resource w... |
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In-situ production of Utah oil sands bitumen | 2007-11 | in situ production; Utah oil sands; Utah reservoirs; in situ bitumen production; SAGD; case studies | In-situ production of oil-sand bitumen offers an excellent alternative to the ex situ processes that are based on strip-mining and surface extraction. In addition to leaving the landscape relatively undisturbed, in situ processes allow for partial upgrading of oil sands, leaving heavier, less profit... |
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DOE project review: Subtask 4.2 (B): Examination of in situ production models | 2011-03-11 | DOE project review; in situ production models; oil shale; unconventional fuels; oil sands; geomechanics; general reservoir simulation tool | A presentation given at the Unconventional Fuels from Oil Shale and Oil Sands Project Review Meeting on March 10-11, 2011. The objectives of the presentation is the examination of in-situ production methods, different in-situ production method options, rigorous energy and carbon balances, exploratio... |
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Chemistry and resources of heavy oil and natural bitumen deposits | 1989 | chemistry of heavy oil; chemistry of natural bitumen deposits; heavy oil resources; natural bitumen deposits; heavy oil; unconventional oil deposits; natural bitumen | Supplies of conventional crude oil are diminishing; therefore, it is important to understand the reservoir characteristics of unconventional oil deposits. Reservoirs of unconventional deposits contain oils heavier than 20° gravity API and natural bitumens (tar sands and oil sands) are more viscous ... |
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Bituminous sands and viscous crude oils | 1964-10-10 | Bituminous sands; Viscous crude oils; Rocky Mountain region; Low gravity; high viscosity; Heavy crude oil; Quiet Revolution; Thermal recovery; Utah; Bituminous sandstone deposits | Bituminous 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... |
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Constructing a basin-scale geologic model | 2013-05-07 | Unconventional fuels; Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Geologic model; Workflow; Reservoir; Basin-scale model | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
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Definition and world resources of natural bitumens | 1990 | Natural 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... | |
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Appraisal of the technical and economic potential of U.S. tar sands | 1986-11 | U.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)... | |
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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... |
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Simulation of in situ processes in reservoir modeling: Fracturing and permeability development of oil shale | 2013-05-07 | ICSE; Unconventional fuels; Oil shale; Reservoir modeling | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
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Fischer Assay Data, Utah Geological Survey Well Number U090 | 2008 | This dataset contains the results of Fischer assay analyses obtained and published by the Utah Geological Survey for well U090. |