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LONDON, Sept. 18 — StatoilHydro is exploring ways to reduce water use and carbon dioxide emissions at its Leismer Oilsands demonstration project, 160 km south of Fort McMurray, Alta. The project is slated to produce 20,000 b/d starting in 2010.
The company hopes the research could yield at least 10% savings on the steam-to-oil ratio required for extraction, and may be as much as 25%.
StatoilHydros pilot project, Solve, will focus on steam-solvent coinjection to potentially reduce the steam-to-oil ratio and increase the bitumen recovery in partnership with the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in Regina, Sask. Drilling of coinjection well pairs at the demonstration site will happen this year, injecting of steam in early 2010, and coinjection beginning in the autumn of 2011.
Solve received $6 million (Can.) in funding from the Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support its research.
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