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Economically Beneficial Waste Gas Injection for Medium/Heavy Oil Depletion

This project will investigate the development of an economically viable process for reducing the release of greenhouse gases from Western Canada oil and gas production into the atmosphere. The project purpose is to determine the role waste-gas injection could play in medium/heavy oil depletion processes; define volumes of waste gases available in reasonable proximity to target reservoirs; and evaluate the capture, gathering and processing costs to make them usable.

A survey will be conducted to define the geographic location of sources, volumes and compositions of waste gas emissions that are in close proximity to medium/heavy oil reservoirs. Probable per-unit-volume investments and operating costs will then be evaluated for waste-gas gathering, processing and compression to prepare injection-ready fluids for reservoir use. The probable benefits for recovery and productivity enhancement schemes, including any product-value losses that might occur as the result of injecting waste gases, will be evaluated by March 1999.