Harris Corporation

Laricina Energy Ltd.

Derik Ehresman

Mauro Cimolai

George Taylor

Mark Alan Trautman

George Floyd Taylor

Neil Edmunds

Mark Ernest Blue

John Emory White

Francis Eugene Parsche

Victor Hernandez

A method of producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir comprises pre-heating by exposure to electromagnetic radiation from a electromagnetic radiation source, injecting through at least one injection well a solvent into the reservoir to dilute the hydrocarbons contained in the pre-conditioned portion, and producing through at least one production well a mixture of hydrocarbons and solvent. An apparatus for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir comprises at least one radio frequency antenna configured to transmit radio frequency energy into a subterranean reservoir, a power source to provide power to the at least one radio frequency antenna, at least one injection well configured to inject a solvent from a solvent supply source into the subterranean reservoir to lower the viscosity of the hydrocarbons, and at least one production well configured to produce a mixture comprising hydrocarbons and solvent from the subterranean reservoir.

Effective solvent extraction system incorporating electromagnetic heating

Equipment and a process for separating bitumen from oil sand in a process stream are described. The equipment includes several processing vessels and one or more local area radio frequency applicators to selectively heat the process stream in local areas of the equipment. The local area can be adjacent to an input or output of a component of the equipment. Also described is equipment for processing an oil sand&#x2014;water slurry, including a slurrying vessel, a slurry pipe, and a local area radio frequency applicator. The local area radio frequency applicator is located outside of the slurry pipe, and heats the local area without significantly heating the contents of the slurrying vessel or of the downstream portion of the slurry pipe.

RF heating to reduce the use of supplemental water added in the recovery of unconventional oil

A process of regulating the water content of water-fluidized oil sand ore during processing of the ore is disclosed. The weight (m) of a sample charge of oil sand ore having a bulk volume (V) is determined. The inter granular voids of the sample charge are then filled with water, and the weight (m) of the added inter granular water is determined. A target specific gravity value (SG) is selected for the fluidized oil sand ore. The volume of additional water, &#x394;V, to add to a sample charge of bulk volume V, to achieve the target specific gravity value (SG) is calculated by solving the following equation: The determined volume &#x394;V of additional water per bulk volume Vof oil sand ore to be processed is added to the oil sand ore, producing water-fluidized oil sand ore. The ore is then processed to concentrate the bitumen.

Constant specific gravity heat minimization

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