カナダのオイルサンド
昭和42年7月7日講演
1967 年 46 巻 9 号 p. 653-661
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1967 年 46 巻 9 号 p. 653-661
A Survey was made on the recent developments of oil sands deposits in Canada based upon the data from published articles including PD 13 of 7rh World Petroleum Congress. Same informations obtained during the author's trip in Canada and the United States as a member of “Oil Sands Survey Mission” were also presented. Geological and geophysical features of the deposits were briefly introduced. The two ways of bitumen recovery from the oil sands, namely, mining of sands followed by hotwater separation and “in-situ” recovery by steam injection, were described. Bitumen up grading processes to produce synthetic crude were shown. Inspections of bitumen and synthetic crude properties were also given. Commercial operation of GCOS is going to start in this autum in Athabasca, nothern part of Alberta, Canada.
