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If you hear the term “froth treatment”, you would be forgiven for thinking it was a device for making the perfect cappuccino. What you might not expect to hear is that it is one of several technologies that help Shell extract oil from sand in Canada.
Heavy oil and bitumen fall into the ‘difficult’ hydrocarbon category - very thick and very heavy, making it difficult to extract. But as we have more than 20 billion barrels of recoverable heavy oil in Canada alone, ‘difficult’ has to be overcome.
Seismic surveys are the most powerful tool that exists to understand what is going on beneath the surface of the earth. First used in the 1920s, the technology uses sound waves generated by small explosions or vibrations at the surface that reflect off underground rock layers. Interpreting the signals that come back is key to understanding what is down there and how to reach it.
All gas comes out of the ground contaminated to an extent. This can be easily dealt with if the level of contamination is low. If the contamination is higher then it gets more difficult. Around one-third of the world’s gas fields are highly contaminated.
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