Course Overview
This course will look at operations to recover oil sands and process them into synthetic crude oil. The focus will be in on the technologies and equipment used to give operators a firm understanding of the overall picture. Common terminology will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Using a map, show the locations of oil areas.
- Describe how oil sands differ from conventional oil.
- Estimate how many tonnes of oil sand must be mined to produce one barrel of synthetic crude oil.
- Draw and explain a block flow diagram of how oil sands are mined.
- Predict when surface mining will not be suitable for oil recovery
- Explain the term EOR and its significance.
- Define the term SAGD and explain the process.
Effective as of Fall 2007
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