According to SU, printed in their sustainability / 2022 climate report pdf
page 9
world’s largest human-made “battery.”
BTW CVE, MEG, IMO, COP, ATH, and Suncor
has hundreds of such wells.
Over the past two decades, the SAGD process has pumped heat into the ground to produce bitumen, transforming Canada’s in situ oil sands into the world’s largest human-made “battery.” We can harness this energy by using geothermal technology in our existing mature, shallow wells and recycled water from our base operations and tailings ponds to recover and repurpose the heat. This process would generate reliable base-load electricity with zero carbon emissions and enhance bitumen recovery, while managing process and/or tailings water and accelerating the reclamation of tailings ponds. The thermal energy from just one SAGD well can produce enough electricity to power 3,600 homes for a year and Suncor has hundreds of such wells. We are currently advancing the Heavy Oil Late Life Energy Recovery (HOLLER) project and have received regulatory approval to plan and initiate a pilot at our MacKay River in situ facility.
These guys use boiling water you say!? Pity
Hope they hop on to this, HOLLER, sooner rather than later, sell it to the Alta grid. Wondering if a future bolt on $premium $feature of AXE CTI RFXL would be a geothermal heat to electricity recovery system?