GE in oil sands agreement
- Publishing Date
- 14 Jul 2010 12:02pm GMT
- Author
- Paul Moore
Processing
Addressing the importance of finding efficient and economical ways to recover heavy oil from the oil sands regions, GE and FilterBoxx Water & Environmental Corp have teamed up to develop innovative water treatment solutions for the oil sands industry.
Specifically, the two companies will work together on heavy oil produced water treatment projects using in-situ thermal methods such as steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).
Approximately 80% of the oil sands in Alberta cannot be open-pit mined because the bitumen is buried too deep below the surface and therefore must be recovered via in-situ methods. In-situ processes use thermal energy, steam or solvents to make bitumen flow so that it can be pumped by a well to the surface.
Conventional de-oiling technologies require approximately 0.3 to 0.4bbls of make-up water for each barrel of bitumen produced. FilterBoxx’s de-oiling and GE’s patented produced water evaporation technologies achieve significantly higher recoveries of the produced water, resulting in 30 to 50% less makeup water required for the SAGD process, depending on reservoir losses and other technical limitations.
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