Pathways Alliance announced Impossible Sensing Energy as the winner in a global competition aimed at helping to accelerate the wide-scale use of steam-reducing technologies in oil sands operations
The same technology used to search for signs of ancient life on Mars could be key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian oil sands.
Just as optical imaging can be used to search for faint traces of potential carbon-based past life on Mars, it can also detect precise amounts of carbon-based solvents in the oil production stream, said Ariel Torre, co-founder and CEO of Impossible Sensing Energy. Oil sands companies currently use massive amounts of natural gas to produce steam for in situ oil sands mining. The steam loosens up the viscous bitumen enough to allow it to be pumped to the surface.
Another potential benefit is that solvents injected with or instead of steam into oil sands reservoirs can later be recovered from the pumped bitumen and recycled to be used all over again. That’s why Pathways sponsored the global contest, Jickling said – to try to find technology that can accurately measure, in real-time, the amount of solvents recovered in oil sands production. Effectively and affordably measuring and identifying solvents for recycling, without having to deploy personnel or stop production, could be a game-changer.
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