Posted on 08/22/2017 1:06:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Russian scientists and local oil field services companies claim to have created a technology for thermochemical gas fracturing that could be an alternative to hydraulic fracturing and could increase oil production by between 1.7 and 6 times, Russia’s news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing the University of Tyumen’s press service.
In hydraulic fracturing, rocks are fractured with high-pressure injection of fluids, while the new breakthrough technology, as claimed by Russian scientists and media, is creating chemical reactions in the strata that contain oil.
The chemicals react and emit heat and gas, which makes extraction easier and lifts well productivity, according to the scientists and researchers.
The other upside in the technology, the Russians claim, is that the main component in the chemical reactions is ammonium nitrate, which is often used as fertilizer.
According to Professor Konstantin Fedorov, Director of the Institute of Physics and Technology at the University of Tyumen and the scientific consultant on the project, the improved well productivity effect lasts between 300 and 1,000 days. Production increases by between 1.7 times and 6 times compared to the initial output level, although the scientists have seen tests with production increases of 10 to 20 times.
The success rate is close to 100 percent, Fedorov claims, as reported by Russian media....
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
Alternative to fracking... thus completely obviating the need for the middle east... bye bye.
I tried to call the Russian Environmental Protection Agency but it said this number is no longer in service. Odd.
I may a bit of an alarmist here but when I read ‘Chemical Reaction’ that emit ‘Heat and Gas’ in the same paragraph as ‘Oil Well’, I get a little nervous.
But then I live within two hundred miles of a coal mine fire that has been burning for about twenty years.
The present Fracking techniques are pretty safe, first filling the well with a water/brine solution that is non-reactive, before setting off a charge.
I think that the Russian technique is likely not going to be a problem but Well Fires are pretty nasty and costly to put out.
Not an alternative to fracking.
Just a different technique of fracking.
Fuel oil and fertilizer causes a chemical reaction.... who knew.
Great movie based on real life well fire fighter Red Adair.
They are going to mix ammonia nitrate with oil, and the reaction includes heat and pressure? !
I'm no chemist, but I see craters in someones future.
I do not believe that chemical reaction that generate heat get along with fracking rocks that contain gas and by using ammonium nitrate as reactant it’s tell you everything about Russian/Soviet science. Their mind is set up to blow everything. To much vodka in nowadays.
In the 60’s and 70’s the Department of Energy set off low yield nuclear bombs deep underground to stimulate gas and oil production. It worked. Plus, the detonations created glass lined chambers to temporarily store some of the oil.
In the past before we developed hydraulic fracturing in the 1940’s wells were fracked with nitro glycerin charges.
Canadian Fracmaster was “fracking” back in the 60’s.
CO2 plus a heavy cut of distillate did the trick.
Yes and they do some fracs with oil instead of water. CO2 has also been used in secondary recovery floods instead of water.
It makes me think of the chemicals used to heat MREs. They emit a gas, and it stinks!
They called it “workover” fluid.
I supplied a 3-4 API cut from the refinery’s new fractionator. The oil was pulled from our residual oil that was a bit “flashy.”
So, have at it Russia.
We like to compete...
Pump millions of pounds of ammonium nitrate underground? Not going to happen. The greenies go nuts over sand, water, and soap (surfactants) getting pumped underground d today.
This IS Russia. Who in their right mind, without massive guarantees, is going to invest in resource development in Russia?
Heat and natural gas in an enclosed space... what could go wrong ???
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