Reduced Emission Recovery
Concerns related to greenhouse gas emission and water usage, combined with societal pressure to implement more sustainable energy recovery procedures and simple economic drivers all confirm the need for much more effective recovery processes. The transition from current processes (SAGD, CSS) to reduced and zero emission to atmosphere recovery processes will combine advances in fueling systems, carbon capture and sequestration, in-situ heat and gas generation, in-situ and surface upgrading.
Fundamental advances in recovery process design for geologically complex reservoirs are needed and Gushor is trying to lead the way in coupling our new understanding of reservoir and fluid hetereotgenieties in heavy oil and bitumen reservoirs and advanced recovery process design to make sustainable recovery of HOOS more feasible and reduce costs, energy and water input and emissions outputs during oil recovery.
Gushor is looking for partners to codevelop two promising emissions reduction and energy recovery technologies, Brutus and JagD. These technologies show emissions reduction potential of up to 50% compared to SAGD for example, and are ready for piloting.
Brutus is a bitumen and heavy oil reservoir preconditioning technology using reservoir water film flow that has an enormous range of applications to viscosity control, water and emulsion control and to enlivening reservoirs. No other technology can turn immobile oil into a cold flow target, as is possible with Brutus.
JagD is a thermal recovery technology designed for real heavy oil and bitumen reservoirs with oil viscosity gradients and with shales in them. JagD was designed to deal with the reservoirs we have in Alberta and beyond that have viscosity gradients and shale baffles that impact SAGD so badly.
