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ABCE’s current focus is on technology related to “Clean Power SAGD: CP-SAGD TM”  technology which recovers end-of-life thermal energy stored in in-situ thermal oil sands reservoirs and uses that energy to produce power to support the concept of a circular energy economy in the oil sands. The CP-SAGD Concept’s focus is on the technology needed to extract low quality energy from depleted in-situ thermal wells through:

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  1. Patent Pending -Concept process and completion designs and completion components for extracting thermal energy from existing horizontal SAGD well pairs to generate power for on-site use or feed the local power grid.

  2. Design Know-How – Understanding completion, system design, and reservoir concepts to design specific systems for specific field applications in the oil sands. Allowing for the development of further concept enhancements, design protocols and economic assessments.

  3. Territory of operation is generally in the Alberta in-situ bitumen extraction processes. However, some concepts may apply in other situations where there are suitable heated wells accessing either leftover process energy or geothermal energy in horizontal wells.

CP-SAGD advantages

ABCE’s CP-SAGD Technology has several advantages over competing power generation technologies. CP-SAGD advantages are divided into three groups: Environmental, Economic and Technical

CP-SAGD provides an emission free technology for electricity generation.

Mathematical modeling and engineering analysis show that the CP-SAGD TM is one of the cheapest sources for electricity generation.

Technical advantages of CP-SAGD TM include; Reducing net energy intensity of thermal oil sands operation,  Generation of “Dispatchable” energy, Allowing to convert CP-SAGD TM wells back to SAGD or ES-SAGD, Enhancement of in-situ energy transfer

Estimated recoverable energy in a Post-SAGD reservoir

A case study for a particular reservoir estimated that about 33 percent of the heat remaining in the reservoir can be extracted before the reservoir temperature falls below 80 degrees. This energy is estimated to be about 2.31 million GJ. One pad recoverable electrical energy (considering 18% heat loss and ORC average thermal efficiency≈ 10%) =189,000 GJ or 52,600,000 kWh. One well pad equivalent electrical energy revenue for $0.085/kWh ≈ 4.47 million CAD

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