Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Imperial Oil Resources

Brian C Speirs

Fritz Pierre

Emilio Alvarez

David C Rennard

Ronald D Myers

Anjaneya Sarma Kovvali

Thomas R Palmer

Brian P Head

Thomas J Boone

Payman Esmaeili

George R Scott

Chien-Chiang Chen

Darrel L Perlau

William C Carlson

Keith A Abel

Justin D Pace

Justin Pace

David Rennard

Robert D Kaminsky

Keith K Aldous

Ronald Damian Myers

Russell J Koveal

Lu Han

Mainak Ghosh

John Timothy Cullinane

Mori Y Kwan

James A Dunn

Amitava Sarkar

Lalit K Bohra

Olusola B Adeyinka

Christopher Lin

Ren Zhu

Stuart R D Lunn

Alan Rhodes

Priya Radhi Santhanam

Thomas Palmer

Ivan J Kosik

Michael A Marr

Givemore Sakuhuni

Jody L Calvert

Anastasios I Skoulidas

Eric D Nelson

Jr Pierre Fritz

Olusola Adeyinka

Bruce K Bartlett

Oksana Baziuk

Giovanna Stea

Stuart Rd Lunn

Fritz Jr Pierre

Leylisadat Mirmontazeri

Diane Y Castellanos Duarte

Disclosed is a method for treating oil sands tailings. The tailings are conditioned with an aluminate and treated with a silicate-containing stream from a hydrocarbon operation or from a geothermal source to produce chemically-induced micro-agglomerates (CIMA) and water.

Method of using a silicate-containing stream from a hydrocarbon operation or from a geothermal source to treat fluid tailings by chemically-induced micro-agglomeration

A modified paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) process is described, in which a fine tailings stream obtained from a water extraction process practiced on oil sands is added during the treatment process. This modified process may be useful as a treatment for the fine tailings stream, allowing for the flocculation of the fines, thus reducing the volume of such fine tailings. The modified process may also be useful in that the fine tailings stream can be used as a supplement or a replacement for dilution water, thus eliminating or reducing the need for dilution water in the PFT process.

Enhancing fine capture in paraffinic froth treatment process

A system and method for treating tailings from a bitumen froth treatment process such as TSRU tailings. The tailings are dewatered and then combusted to convert kaolin in the tailings into metakaolin. Calcined fines and heavy minerals may be recovered from the combustion products, namely from the flue gas and bottom ash.

System and method for treating tailings from bitumen extraction

Thermal oil recovery operations, such as SAGD, result in waste heat that is typically released to the environment. Bitumen mining operations require heat input for heating fluids used in the mining process. A method and system of recovering heat from a thermal recovery operation for use in bitumen mining operation may include a heated donor fluid from a thermal recovery operation which heats an acceptor fluid for use in bitumen mining via proximal heat exchange using a power cycle or heat exchange module, such as an ammonia and water based Kalina&#xae; Cycle.

Method and system integrating thermal oil recovery and bitumen mining for thermal efficiency

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