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Disadvantages of Tar Sands Energy Hog Currently uses natural gas for the process Does this make sense Disadvantages of Tar Sands Infrastructure Costs If we want to replace foreign oil with Canadian oil we will need to dramatically expand the mining refining and pipeline system Quite a few billion dollars necessary
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Mix the crushed sands with hot water to form a slurry then agitate the slurry interestingly also a major step in most British cooking so the bitumen sludge can be scooped out The stuff
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Natural gas that is going to be injected into the pipeline has to meet the pipeline specifications and has to have more than 98% methane The second step in the logistics chain for natural gas is the processing of the produced gas Processing is done for two main purposes 1 removing other heavy hydrocarbons and removing the contaminations
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The production process wastes enormous quantities of freshwater Tar sands mines use barrels of freshwater for every barrel of tar sands produced Companies get the water from the
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Tar sands are mined and processed to generate oil similar to oil pumped from conventional oil wells but extracting oil from tar sands is more complex than conventional oil recovery Oil sands recovery processes include extraction and separation systems to separate the bitumen from the clay sand and water that make up the tar sands
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Process and System for Processing Tar Sand Sep 11 2024 0183 32 A process and system to separate crude from tar sands removing excess natural gas from the tar sand crude However any savings in these
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Tar sand pretreatment with diluent J Hupka and Miller Abstract — Important aspects of kerosene penetration into tar sand have been investigated The natural tar sand porosity was measured and used to analyze the performance of the hot water process Subsequently pretreatment experi ments using 20 kg tar sand samples Asphalt Ridge and
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[editor s note by Dave] Tar sands natural gas usage will reach /bcfd by the 4th quarter of 2024 from 72/bcfd in 2024 In the case of current tar sand production heavy machinery is used to mine and transport the tar sands to the processing plant and the tailings also need to be transported to a dump site If I recall correctly a scientific report on EROI for the Canadian Tar sands
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Tar Sands Challenges If natural gas prices remained at levels seen in /8 tar sands production and processing would be far less profitable Many American and International oil companies are involved in both extracting and refining tar sands oil The greenhouse gas emissions of mining and upgrading tar sands is roughly 79 kilograms per barrel of oil presently whereas melting out the bitumen in
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The Keystone XL pipeline extension proposed by TC Energy then TransCanada in 2024 was initially designed to transport the planet s dirtiest fossil fuel tar sands oil to market—and fast
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Tar sands Oil sands formerly referred to as tar sands are sandy substrates that contain large deposits of bitumin a kind of fossil is a thick viscous black sticky tar like form of liquid petroleum but its physical consistency is comparable to that of cold sands occurring at or near the surface can be mined using open pit techniques
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Greenhouse gas emissions Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and refining This process generates 12 percent higher the amount of greenhouse gases per barrel of final product as the production of conventional According to Oil Change International emissions from tar sands extraction and upgrading are between and times higher than the
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Natural Gas Pipelines network Gas Processing Plant in Belarus Rechitsa Gomel region Pipe and industrial refinery towers of the Pipes for natural gas pipeline project Oil and gas pipelines Fuel and energy concept Oil pipeline that would carry tar sands Natural gas pipeline project Pipes for oil and gas pipelines construction Fuel and energy concept Oil pipeline that would carry
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The HBK authors combine expertise in different aspects of natural gas industry processing treatment and transmission starting with NG fundamentals a large scoop on pricing and chapters on automation simulation environmental aspects complemented with profitability and gas project management It seems a hard task to address the whole range of handbook user s expectations according to
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Given the additional energy intensive processing needed to extract and pipe bitumen from tar sands deposits fuels derived from tar sand oil produce about 20% more life cycle from well to wheel greenhouse gases than conventional fuels This does not include the carbon releases and lost sequestration potential of the peatland the
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2 Extracting bitumen from tar sands is carbon intensive The emissions from the average tar sands operation are up to 15% higher than in standard crude oil processing procedures This increase is due to the depth of the oil in tar sands and the separation process that is required to separate the bitumen from the other components 3
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This cushions the cost of producing transport fuel from this low quality oil If natural gas prices remained at levels seen in 2024/8 tar sands production and processing would be far less profitable Traditionally tar sand operators have utilized natural gas to produce the steam and hydrogen needed for the mining upgrading and refining
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Tar sands take the form of a physical mixture of heavy oil and bitumen with sand If the deposits are at or close to the surface as many are then open cast mining is used followed by hot water processing and flotation to release the oil For subterranean deposits recovery is achieved by hot water injection
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Mining and converting the tar sands into usable fuel is an enormously energy and water intensive process that requires strip mining vast swaths of land while also creating massive amounts of toxic waste Denchak 2024 Source Louis Helbig 2024
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Industry 1311—Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Establishments primarily engaged in operating oil and gas field properties Such activities may include exploration for crude petroleum and natural gas drilling completing and equipping wells operation of separators emulsion breakers desilting equipment and field gathering lines for crude
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The following are the many valuable products generated by processing coal by heating in the absence of air Coke Coal Tar and Coal Gas The process of rapidly heating coal in the absence of air is known as a destructive distillation of coal When coal is burned in the presence of air it burns primarily to create carbon dioxide gas with no
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The process of removing the tar from the sand involves incredible amounts of energy from clean burning natural gas with nuclear proposed along side tremendous capital costs during build up incredibly high petroleum prices to protect investments and the largest single industrial contribution to climate change in North America
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The International Energy Agency IEA projected in May 2024 that global demand for natural gas could rise more than 50% by 2024 from 2024 level Wood Nwaoha and Towler 2024 Nigeria is blessed with abundant energy resources like Solar Coal Tar sand Natural Gas Oil hydroelectricity just to mention but a few The commercial energy sector
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June 17 2024 Later this summer a company plans to open a surface mine in southern Kentucky But the operation won t be mining for coal Instead they re seeking to extract a new natural
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Methods of and apparatus for recovering bitumen from tar sands and the like in which the tar sand is mechanically dislodged from the formation in which it is deposited and in which a solvent for the bitumen is mixed with the mined material to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen and thereby facilitate the transfer of the mined material to an operation where the bitumen is separated from solid
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Tar Sands Tar sands are grains of sand or in some cases porous carbonate rocks that are intimately mixed with a very heavy asphalt like crude oil called bitumen The bitumen is much too viscous to be recovered by traditional petroleum recovery techniques Tar sands contain about 10 15% bitumen the remainder being sand or other inorganic
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Coal oil shale natural bitumen tar sand and heavy oil are all fossil fuels Strictly speaking peat is not yet a real organic rock and can be regarded as the precursor of coal In global primary energy consumption crude oil is still a major contender supplying 40% of fuel while coal supplies 30% and natural gas 20% This means that
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Space mirror for processing tar sands 5 5 MacMurray always in sunlight then use solar furnaces to provide the heat necessary for extracting the oil from the tar sands This will extend our natural gas supply for many years longer and allow the tar sands to be extracted after the gas is gone
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A 15 year decline in oil reserves is spurring companies such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group Exxon Mobil Corp and ChevronTexaco Corp to spend $76 billion in the next decade to boost supplies of oil from tar sands and diesel fuel from Qatari natural gas Oil executives say they have no choice but to try alternatives to drilling because there is
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