[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', '
')Some interesting posts in that thread:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Hubbert Linearizations may not account for these resources correctly. We may end up with a very fat tail.

[...]

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonsense', '
')I thought Robert over at TOD had already thoroughly discredited the HL nonsense?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')The single comment to the article:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')moco tried fire flood in the early 1970s. What is the difference?

[Blacksmith]

By the same arguement I guess, water flood, immisible flood, and most secondary recovery techniques don't, work, cann't work, etc.

The remarkable thing is that it does work, particularly in sandstones though the degree of perfection may vary like anything else in nature. In carbonates the rock breaks down so some other method is required.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')HAI works, and quite efficiently too.

[TheAntiDoomer]

Little THAI Q&A

http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/sta ... 15427.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')etrobank is working on toe-to-heel air injection (THAI), a process using underground combustion to achieved higher heavy-oil recovery rates with a lower environmental footprint. But Petrobank has been dogged by production glitches at its test site that have delayed development. With the technology facing both fans and detractors, Mr. Wright argues that THAI is in the home stretch to commercial use.

Back to THAI: Why should I believe this will work?

The coolest thing I can show you is at our Conklin project in the oil sands, where you go to the injection wells and just hear the air going in. Then you walk 800 metres to the production wells and you can hear the oil coming out. Air is going in and oil is coming out; it is that simple.

[TheAntiDoomer]

http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/10/toe-to ... .html#more

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')harePetrobank Energy and Resources is buying out its partners in two joint ventures that are to use its innovative fireflood heavy oil recovery technology (Toe-to-heel air injection - THAI). If THAI is fully successful it could increase oil recovery from the oilsands to 80% of oil in place.

[ian807]

The discussion on energy return using this method is here: http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/5183

[dixonge]

If

Could

Key words...

[dolanbaker]

Even "if" and "could" are achieved, there is still the issue of extraction rates to contend with. It would need to ramp up quicker than the decline rates from other fields elsewhere, to avoid an energy "crunch" within the next 2-5 years.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheAntiDoomer', 'h')ttp://nextbigfuture.com/2010/10/toe-to-heel-air-injection-update.html#more

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')harePetrobank Energy and Resources is buying out its partners in two joint ventures that are to use its innovative fireflood heavy oil recovery technology (Toe-to-heel air injection - THAI). If THAI is fully successful it could increase oil recovery from the oilsands to 80% of oil in place.

[Serial_Worrier]

YES, my $3.20/gallon gas will continue another 5 years. I can breath a sigh of relief that my cornucorpian existence rolls on...

[copious.abundance]

Lots of THAI updates in Petrobank's February presentation!
http://www.petrobank.com/wp-content/upl ... es-Web.pdf
^
Several projects started up recently which will gain steam this year and next.

Also interesting is the map on pg. 24 - lots of heavy oil and bitumen all around the world, and Petrobank is licensing their technology up the kazoo. Particularly interesting is, I didn't know there was so much heavy oil left in western Siberia.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')etrobank is to reveal details of its strategy to make THAI work in early 2014.

The company’s patents for the one-well injector, one-well producer setup expire in 2015, which means anyone can use the technology at that time, Cheung said. He added patents on other combustion-based configurations discovered over the past seven years are in force well into the 2020s.

Petrobank shares closed 3.5 cents higher at 36.5 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It started 2013 at $1.19 after distributing its shares in PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (now renamed Lightstream Resources Ltd.) to its shareholders.

In a note to investors, analyst Mike Dembicki of TD Securities said the deadline for THAI is welcome.

“Looking at the recent share price performance, we believe that the market has largely discounted the THAI process,” he wrote.

“We view the change in corporate strategy focus to stopping negative cash flow operations and potentially using conventional thermal techniques as positive.”

[ROCKMAN]

Pstarr – “These new "unconventional processes" require energy to operate, ever-increasing amounts that leave less and less for the mall ride.” THAI is actually just one subset of the “fire flood” methodology. The really successful examples of in situ combustion (ISC) are in high quality reservoirs with light oil. Actually Texaco was one of the leading researchers in back around 1960. In fact the Texas A&M petroleum engineering dept has an ISC research lab named the Texaco hand that led the charge. And despite folks thinking CA was the king of thermal recovery techniques Texas and La. both had more success but that was about 50 years ago. I unsuccessfully tried to get a project started in Texas 12 years ago. But two factors made it difficult: low oil prices and almost everyone with ISC experience was dead. LOL. Seriously. ISC is probably the most complex EOR technique around. I spent hundreds of hours trying to explain the method but just very difficult for many to grasp. With current oil prices I know where I could recover 100+ million bbls of oil very profitably. But that would take a very long time to find someone to pull the trigger and put the lease holds together. I’m too busy with current projects…and too freaking old. LOL. The main reason THAI has a chance of catching on IMHO is the huge amount of oil sand resources and the fact that much is buried too deep for surface mining.