Open AccessUnconventional Oil Ores around the World: A Review
Author(s) -
Guoqiang Ma,
Jianna Jia,
Zhaoyu Qi,
Shitao Peng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/621/1/012009
Subject(s) - oil sands , unconventional oil , asphalt , synthetic crude , petroleum engineering , petroleum industry , fossil fuel , oil production , crude oil , oil reserves , geology , environmental science , waste management , petroleum , engineering , archaeology , geography , environmental engineering , paleontology
With the increasing demand of the conventional oil and gas, unconventional oils are playing an increasingly important role in global energy supplying. Unconventional oil ore (such as oil sands, asphalt rocks) has been widely used in the industry. The bitumen recovered from the unconventional oil ore can be used for the production of synthetic crude oil. Canada has the world’s largest oil sands deposits in Alberta. Since the discovery of the Athabasca oil sands, many technologies have been applied to recovery the bitumen in industry, and the daily production of unconventional oil has reached 10.9 × 10 6 barrels in 2018. However, the Chinese oil sands has not been applied to the industry due to the complex characteristics. Much more attention will be paid to the fundamental research and process development of the unconventional oil ores.