| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L71773/01 |
| Title: |
ROPA: DOWNHOLE CATALYTIC UPGRADING OF HEAVY OIL USING INSITU COMBUSTION - HORIZONTAL WELLS PROCESS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Greaves, Professor M |
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Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bath |
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ROPA |
| Starts: |
01 October 1997 |
Ends: |
31 October 1999 |
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141,699
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Downhole catalytic upgrading (hydorconversion) of heavy crude oill by air injection/in situ combustion process (ISC) is to investigated. A new ISC-horizontal well process will place a catalyst bed externally along the whole length of a horizontal producer well located in the oil layer. Importantly, the thermally craked oil contacts the section of catalyst bed immediately ahead of the combustion front essestially in a single-pass operation. This minimises coking of the catalyst, thereby maintaining high reaction conversion. The exploitation of vast heavy oil reserves world-wide (including the North Sea) depends critically on this type of in situ upgrading process to achieve both improved oil recovery and the marketable quality of oil required.
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