Electrical heating of oil sands allows for production in situ in a mode similar to conventional liquid oil production. This avoids disturbing and redistributing the overburden and production sands. A further advantage of electrical heating is that the power consumption can be matched to the availability of sources such as wind power.

Traditional oil sands production techniques include mining and transporting the sands and in situ production using steam injection, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). This proposed method will replace or enhance SAGD by using primarily traditional vertical well bores and an induction heating method which will potentially allow the heating effect to expand in diameter as […]