ENHANCED STEAM EXTRACTION OF BITUMEN FROM OIL SANDS

    公开(公告)号:US20190119577A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16096101

    申请日:2017-05-18

    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved bitumen recovery process from oil sands. The oil sands may be surface mined and transported to a treatment area or may be treated directly by means of an in situ process of oil sand deposits that are located too deep for strip mining. Specifically, the present invention involves the step of treating oil sands with an ethylene oxide capped glycol ether described by the structure: RO—(CH2CH(CH3)O)m(C2H4O)n, H wherein R is a linear, branched, cyclic alkyl, phenyl, or alkyl phenyl group of greater than 5 carbons and m and n are independently 1 to 3.

    ADDITIVES FOR ENHANCED EXTRACTION OF BITUMEN

    公开(公告)号:US20210301194A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US16973870

    申请日:2019-06-28

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for recovering bitumen that includes contacting bitumen with steam and/or water and an organic amine having a boiling point at one atmosphere of greater than 145° C. and recovering the bitumen. The bitumen can in oil sands, where the step of contacting includes contacting the oil sands having bitumen with the steam and/or water and the organic amine. Contacting the bitumen with the steam and/or water and the organic amine and recovering the bitumen can be done in-situ in a subterranean formation.

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