[Alta_redneck]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

This will replace the practice of pumping millions of gallons of fresh water down wells to push up more oil. Albertans have been complaining of this for years, all this water is lost forever. Cleaning up the air, conserving fresh water and getting the Canadian tax payer to throw in a few nickels at the same time is a win win win situation.

No doubt, especially given that drought has hit eastern and southern Alberta hard over the past few years. All that water can be used for drinking or something else instead of being injected a km under the surface.

I'll point out that Ralph saw how wrong this was and stopped granting water licences for this. But still have to honour the existing ones until they run out. Now Ed needs to work on plugging the loophole where developers can buy retiring farmer's water licenses so they can have water at their developments like the project at Balzac. Ted Morton put up a good fight, but legally couldn't stop it.

[Thanos]

Robair Robair:

ridenrain ridenrain:

With so much information showing that this whole climate change is bunk, you'd think that they would sit on this for a while. When it's all shown to be BS, Alberta is going to look pretty stupid with their brand new hole in the ground.

I've got more than a few family members who could always use another pipeline welding job.

Yeah. Anyone know who's doing the engineering on this gig? I wouldn't mind getting involved and milking this taxpayer-funded ol' whore for all it's worth.

[Gunnair]

ridenrain ridenrain:

With so much information showing that this whole climate change is bunk, you'd think that they would sit on this for a while. When it's all shown to be BS, Alberta is going to look pretty stupid with their brand new hole in the ground.

Whew! Hopefully someone working there is on CKA to see this and save Alberta a whole pile of cash!

Might even get a consulting job out of this RR!

[DrCaleb]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

This will replace the practice of pumping millions of gallons of fresh water down wells to push up more oil. Albertans have been complaining of this for years, all this water is lost forever. Cleaning up the air, conserving fresh water and getting the Canadian tax payer to throw in a few nickels at the same time is a win win win situation.

Has this been done anywhere abd does it work? I can't imagine pumping a gas underground, expecting it to stay there and expecting oil to float on it.

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

I should add that the oil doesn't float, it's pressure that forces it through the rock formations or say up hill. There might be a pool right next to a well but 100 feet lower and it's not worth spending $25 or so million to get it. The way I understand how it works is they drill a small hole to it, pump the crap gas down and it pushes the oil into the pool the well is sucking out of. Just like how gas forces the syrup out of the fountain pop machine at your local 7 / 11.

Someone like Dino may want to fine tune that explanation.

Carbon dioxide is actually a 'detergent' when it comes to oil. In Saskatchewan, they used to have a large oil bearing region that was under pressure in the Weyburn and Midale oilfields. It was oil, embedded in sandstone. When the pressure let off after releasing oil for so many years, it's not economically viable to retrieve it anymore. But there are still millions of barrels of oil there.

So, they imported CO2 from a North Dakota gas processing plant, and pumped it into the rock. The CO2 adds pressure, and scrubs the oil from the rock. They pump the CO2 in one side of the field, and oil is forced out the other side.

2 birds, one stone.

http://www.er.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN ... 6008f69180

[Alta_redneck]

Gezz I didn't do to bad for someone thats never got their feet muddy on a lease before.

[DrCaleb]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Gezz I didn't do to bad for someone thats never got their feet muddy on a lease before.

I didn't know much about it, till I started researching it. All my experience is in the big oilsands plants.

Carbon capture is a great idea. It'll reduce the pollution, and make available more oil that wasn't accessible before; without wasting our drinking water.