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Fossil Energy - Inventions, Research, Innovations,
Breakthroughs
- Huge potential seen in Gulf of Mexico oil well;
Deepwater well could be nation's largest source; A group led by Chevron
Corp. on Tuesday raised expectations that it has tapped into what could
be one of the nation's biggest oil discoveries in decades, releasing
results from the long-awaited test of a Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil
well – Energy Bulletin,
Sep 2006 (see also: A clarification
for the original news item)
- Shell makes massive natural gas discovery (Dec 2004) -
Shell Canada Ltd. has tapped into a massive natural gas reservoir in Western
Canada -- its largest discovery in the area in nearly two decades --
raising hopes that the birthplace of the Canadian oil industry may still
contain undiscovered elephant-sized deposits. Read more from the Energy Bulletin article
here
- PetroChina makes major oil discovery (May 2004) -
PetroChina, China's largest oil producer, has made the nation's biggest
oil discovery in a decade, bolstering its reserves by at least a third
at a time when oil prices are at a record and the country's demand is
soaring, the company said Thursday. PetroChina Changqing Oilfield, a
unit of the Beijing-based company, found 108.2 million tons of proven
reserves and another 327 million tons of estimated reserves in the
Xifeng oilfield in the northwestern province of Gansu, PetroChina's
parent, China National Petroleum, said on its Web site…Read more from
the Energy Bulletin
article
- The End of Oil? Breakthrough Turns Coal Into Clean
Diesel - Sean Markey - National Geographic News - April, 2006 -
Scientists announced the production of diesel fuel from coal, natural
gas, and organic material. Researchers say they have developed a way to
derived products such as ethane gas and diesel fuel. The synthetic
diesel is cleaner burning than conventional diesel, even cleaner burning
than gasoline. Read more from this National
Geographic article
- Oil Shale – a number of oil shale related resources are
provided at this page. Some of the topics are: The US Govt's Secret
Colorado Oil Discovery?, Raytheon process allows oil shale for sale (May
2006), Oil Shale Development in the United States: Prospects and Policy
Issues (2005), ; The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado, Pulling
the Sword from the Stone; Oil Shale Review, by Jean Laherrère (2005
August); Shale-oil dream ends in company collapse by Brian Robins,
Sydney (2003 December); Suncor's announcement of abandoning the Stuart
Oil Shale Project adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia owing
to greenhouse problems. Read more from this page @ Oil Crisis
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- Israel Presses for Oil from Shale - Past attempts to
extract liquid oil from shale weren't economically feasible. Now a
process developed in the 1990s to squeeze oil from shale by mixing the
rock with a residue from conventional oil refining and putting it
through a catalytic process could yield dramatically improved results.
In this process, the shale is mixed and coated with bitumen, a remnant
of normal oil refining, then put through a catalytic converter under
relatively low pressure. The output is synthetic oil that can be refined
into gasoline and other products. Read more from this Business
Week report, Jul 2006
- New Exxon Mobil Oil Drilling Technology Reduces Drilling
Time by 35% - Nov 2005 - AZOM - Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that
its drilling organization has developed an optimization process that
consistently reduces the time required to drill oil and gas wells by up
to 35 percent. The Fast Drill Process (FDP) achieves this breakthrough
performance by using real-time, computer analysis of the drilling
system's energy consumption. This analysis, in turn, helps improve the
management of the factors that determine drilling rate, such as weight
on the drill bit, rotary speed and torque. Read more from this Nov 2005 report
- Timor Sea Exploration Breakthrough - A team of
scientists at CSIRO, Australia has developed a new exploration tool
which could save oil and gas companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
The team has shown that by combining several different geological
techniques they can predict where pools of oil and gas are contained
(trapped) beneath the ocean floor. This is done by understanding a
combination of factors including fault growth histories, trap geometry
and hydrocarbon charge history, to predict the distribution of preserved
and breached traps. Read more from this CSIRO
press release, June 2005
- Breakthrough Electromagnetic Technology Developed For
Shallow And Deepwater Oil Exploration - March 2006 - Controlled Source
Electromagnetic Imaging (CSEM) is a sounding technique, increasingly
used by oil exploration companies to extend their knowledge of an
exploration prospect before incurring drilling costs. CSEM has been
recognised as a useful exploration tool. Until recently the technique
could only be usefully applied in deep water, at depths of more than
1,000 metres. However, scientists at an oil industry survey services
company, Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc (OHM) have come up with
solutions that now make it possible to utilise the method in water as
shallow as 50 metres. Read more from
this report (PDF)
- Topics Discussed (and their abstracts) in the Oil &
Gas Exploration AAPG Conference - Topics
in the 2006 conference; an exceptional number of interesting
research topics discussed.
- Process of microbial extraction of hydrocarbons from oil
sands – Abstract - A process is described for the separation of
hydrocarbon residues from oil and tar sands by microbiological activity.
Hydrocarbon residues are released from the sands by contacting with a
suspension of oxidase-synthesizing, hydrocarbon-metabolizing
microorganisms. US Patent number: 4349633; Filing date: Nov 10, 1980;
Issue date: Sep 14, 1982; Inventors: Howard E. Worne, Irving
Rabinovitch. See full details of the patent
from here
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