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16 Energy Resources II Flashcards

1
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What are the conventional and unconventional fossil fuels? (3) (3)

A

Conventional
- Coal
- Petroleum
- Natural Gas
Unconventional
- Oil sands
- Shale oil & gas
- Coal-bed methane

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2
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What sea creature is the base of petroleum?

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Plankton

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3
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What is the process of creating petroleum?

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Plankton -> sediment -> Kerogen -> Oil

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4
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What ocean conditions need to be prevalent for plankton to become petroleum?

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Anoxic conditions because the plankton bodies won’t oxidize

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Slides 12-18

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6
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Permeability and porosity definition?

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Porosity: open space in the rock that stores fluid.
Permeability: ease of fluid movement through pore space.

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What are the conventional petroleum systems? (4)

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Onshore drilling
Offshore drilling
Pumpjack
Wellhead and Christmas tree

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Slides 25-27

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9
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What are the three key facts about the exshaw formation?

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  • Latest Devonian-earliest Mississippian
  • Fine-grained organic black shale
  • Deposited in anoxic basin
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10
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How many wells are there for the WCSB?

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Upward of 700,000 wells

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What are two key facts about Norman Wells?

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  1. Most Northern Well in the world at the time
  2. discovery led to the realization that reefs built by stromatoporoid could be great oil and gas reservoirs
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What are three key facts about Turner Valley?

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  1. First well in Alberta
  2. First discovery of oil in Alberta
  3. Largest oil producer in the whole commonwealth at the time
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12
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What is the key fact about Leduc?

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Set off the modern oil sector in Alberta

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12
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What age of rock did they find oil in at Turner Valley?

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Cretaceous

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13
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What two spots are the Leduc #1 and #2?

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Nisku bank
Leduc reef

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13
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Slide 54

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14
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What is the key fact about Montey?

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It produces a large amount of Canadian natural gas

15
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What is hydraulic fracturing?

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Injecting high-pressure gas with sand and some chemicals
The sand keeps the fractures open for a longer time

16
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Slides 62-63

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17
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The cardium formation is a part of what oil field?

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Pembina oil field

18
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The Manville Formation is a part of what oil field?

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Athabasca oil sands

19
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What important about the Alberta bitumen
deposits?

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by 2025, 70% of Canada’s oil production will come from Alberta bitumen deposits

20
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What is bitumen?

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Bitumen is oil that has been attacked by bacteria

21
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How old are Alberta’s oil sands?

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Early Cretaceous in age (110 Ma)

22
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What are the two ways to get oil sands out of the ground?

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  1. Strip mining
  2. Steam-injection

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