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29th Oil Shale Symposium 2009 Golden,xxx Colorado, USA 19-21 October 2009 Volume 1 of 2 ISBN: 978-1-61782-508-8 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Copyright© (2009) by the Colorado School of Mines All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2011) For permission requests, please contact the Colorado School of Mines at the address below. Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St. Golden, CO 80401 Phone: 303-273-3000 or 800-446-9488 www.mines.edu Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2634 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 SESSION 1: WELCOMING PLENARY Co-Chairs: Myles W. Scoggins, Jeremy Boak A Colorado Viewpoint on the Development of Oil Shale Resources..................................................................................1 Bob Randall Energy is Important to Utah and Utah is Important to Energy ........................................................................................5 Alan Walker Oil Shale and Global Energy Needs ................................................................................................................................... 33 Richard Lowe SESSION 2: PROGRAM OVERVIEW PLENARY Co-Chairs: Jeremy Boak, Dag Nummedal A New Improved Solid Heat Carrier Technology (Enefit 280) for Processing of Oil Shale with Different Grades .................................................................................................................................................................. 45 Indrek Aarna, Andreas Orth New Generation Shale Oil Plant: Design, Construction and Commissioning................................................................. 62 Jaanus Purga Developing a US Oil Shale Industry – Overcoming the Challenges ................................................................................ 63 Sandor Liive U.S. Oil Shale Task Force Education and Outreach Activities........................................................................................ 79 Andrew Browning SESSION 3: IN SITU PROCESSING Co-Chairs: Carl Palmer, Bill Symington Spatial Distribution of Geochemical Changes About an Oil Shale Retort...................................................................... 91 Carl Palmer, Earl Mattson, Robert Perkins, Mitchell Plummer, Thomas Wood Construction and Testing of Shell’s Freeze Wall ............................................................................................................ 111 Wolfgang Deeg, Sepehr Arbabi, Richard Mykitta, Jeffrey Smith, Larry Crump Field Testing of Electrofrac™ Process Elements at ExxonMobil’s Colony Mine ........................................................ 126 William A. Symington, James S. Burns, Wadood El-Rabaa, Glenn A. Otten, Norman Pokutylowicz, P. Matthew Spiecker, Richard W. Williamson, Jesse D. Yeakel SESSION 4: PYROLYSIS Co-Chairs: William Taciuk, Neil Bostrom Realistic Oil Shale Pyrolysis Programs: Kinetics and Quantitative Analysis............................................................... 159 Neil Bostrom, Gabriela Leu, Malka Machlus, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Robert L. Kleinberg Test Results Relating to Changes in Oil Yield and Gas Compositions of Oil Shale Samples Subjected to Short-to-Medium Time and Temperature Exposure at Atmospheric Pressure....................................................... 175 William Taciuk Effect of Oil Shale Particle Size on Oil Yield, Sulfur and Distillation Fractions.......................................................... 236 Omar Al-Ayed, Zaid Al-Anbar Permeability Changes of Fractured Oil Shale Cores During Retorting........................................................................ 264 Earl Mattson, Carl Palmer, Erik Johnson, Hai Huang, Tom Wood SESSION 5: RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION UPDATE Co-Chairs: Glenn Vawter, James Patten White River Oil Shale Project 2009 update..................................................................................................................... 286 Gary Aho AMSO’s Colorado Oil Shale RD&D Lease Tract: Progress and Plans......................................................................... 307 Roger Day Field Test Results: EcoShale In-Capsule Technology..................................................................................................... 325 James Patten Progress Report on Oil Shale Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Leases...................................... 359 Glenn Vawter, Gary Aho SESSION 6: MODELING Co-Chairs: Richard Sherritt, Milind Deo Interaction Between Reactivity and Flow in the In-situ Production of Oil from Oil Shale ......................................... 371 Jacob Bauman, Milind Deo Massively Parallel Modelling of Coupled Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical Processes During In-Situ Oil Shale Retorting .................................................................................................................................................................. 401 Hai Huang, Thomas Wood, Carl Palmer, Earl Mattson, Zhijie Xu Advances in the Steady-State Process Modeling of Oil Shale Retorting Processes ...................................................... 427 Rick Sherritt, Meilani Purnomo, Jimmy Jia, Jim Schmidt Oxygen Combustion Application and Simulation Analysis in SJ – Pyrolysis Retort Process ..................................... 462 Jimmy Jia, Rick Sherritt, Jim Schmidt, Wenzhi Shang SESSION 7: RESOURCE CHARACTERIZATION Co-Chairs: Ronald Johnson, Matthew Sares Albert County Oil Shale – Resource Characterization and Preliminary Assessment of Development Concepts ............................................................................................................................................................................. 484 Roland Butler, Lawrence Winter, Carol Seymour, J. Dean Thibault, Tim McKeen, Stephanie Scott Potential Benefits of Minerals and Metals As Added Value to Oil Shale in Jordan..................................................... 530 Musa Resheidat, Jan Krason An Assessment of In-place Oil Shale Resources in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado ............................................................................................................................................................................. 565 Ronald Johnson, Tracey Mercier, Michael Brownfield, Michael Pantea, Jesse Self Assessment of In-place Nahcolite Resources in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado................... 610 Michael Brownfield, Tracey Mercier, Ronald Johnson, Jesse Self SESSION 8: SURFACE PROCESSING Co-Chairs: Gary Aho, Douglas Smoot Hydrogen Firing for a High-Capacity Rotary Kiln ........................................................................................................ 643 Ralph E. Coates, L. Douglas Smoot, Kent E. Hatfield Hydrogen and Water Requirements for the Clean Shale Oil Surface (C-SOS) Process.............................................. 668 Kent E. Hatfield, Ambar M. Ochoa, L. Douglas Smoot, Craig Eatough SESSION 9: US PROGRAM & POLICY Co-Chairs: James Killen, Khosrow Biglarbigi Profiling Oil Shale Research and Development in the United States ............................................................................ 693 James Killen, Emily Knaus Advances in Oil Shale Technologies for Potential Application in U.S. Oil Shale Resources ....................................... 711 Peter Crawford, James Killen, Emily Knaus The Current Understanding of U.S. Oil Shale Economics ............................................................................................. 737 Khosrow Biglarbigi, James Killen, Marshall Carolus Shale Oil, the New Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Why the US Should Pursue This Strategy.............................. 761 Stephen Sewalk, Paul Chinowsky SESSION 10: OIL SHALE PROPERTIES Co-Chairs: Mike Batzle, Matther Holman Determining Oil Shale Porosity Using Borehole Gravimetry ........................................................................................ 782 Katia Pronina, Matthew Holman Elastic Properties of Source Rocks................................................................................................................................... 800 Ramil Ahmadov, Jack Dvorkin, Gary Mavko Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Oil Shale ...................................................................................... 824 Tracy Elizabeth McEvoy, Michael Batzle, Jeremy Boak, Earl D. Mattson, John Scales, George Radziszewski VOLUME 2 Pore-Scale Analysis of Pyrolyzed Oil Shale Cores .......................................................................................................... 858 Chen Lu Lin, Jan Miller, C.H. (Ken) Hsieh, Pankaj Tiwari, Milind Deo SESSION 11: SURFACE & GROUND WATER Co-Chairs: Harry Posey, Kathy Wilson Interpreting Groundwater Characteristics in Eocene Aquifers by Isotopic Measurements: Piceance Basin, Colorado.................................................................................................................................................................. 879 Harry Posey, Jim Finley, Konrad Quast Assessing Surface Water Resource Availability for Oil Shale Development Using the WARMF Model................... 896 Daniel Levitt, Al-Aziz Eddebbarh, Cathy Wilson, Andrew Wolfsberg,