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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 SPONSORS: 33rd Oil Shale Symposium sponsors October 14-18, 2013 Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado Hosted by The Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research The Colorado School of Mines Table of Contents Monday Afternoon, October 14, 2013 Session 1: Opening Plenary Session 2: Plenary Session and Panel Discussion Tuesday Morning, October 15, 2013 Session 3: Geology & Stratigraphy Session 4: Retort Modeling Session 5: Economics Session 6: Geochemistry Tuesday Afternoon, October 15, 2013 Session 7: Oil Shale Gases Session 8: Spectroscopy Session 9: Shale Oil Properties Session 10: Oil Shale Properties Wednesday Morning, October 16, 2013 Session 11: Retort Technology Session 12: Water & Power Session 13: Oil Shale Development Session 14: Hazards & Environmental Issues Wednesday Afternoon, October 16, 2013 Session 15: U. S. and International Oil Shale Projects 1 Session 16: U. S. and International Oil Shale Projects 2 Session 17: Poster Session, October 14-16, 2013 Index of Authors Sponsors Additional author information may be included with abstract or presentation documents. Monday, October 14, 2013 Session 1: Opening Plenary Chairs: Jeremy Boak, COSTAR; Kathryn Washburn, Weatherford Labs Welcome and Introduction to the 33rd Oil Shale Symposium 1 1.1 Jeremy Boak, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA Status and Plans for the U. S. Department of Interior Program for Development of Oil Shale and Oil Sands 2 1.2 Mitchell Leverette, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., USA Projections of Energy Resources and Future Production from the U. S. EIA Annual Energy Outlook 3 1.3 Troy Cook, U. S. Energy Information Administration, Denver CO, USA Challenges and Opportunities for Potential Oil Shale Operators 13 1.4 David Argyle, Michael Arbus Paper Presentation Where Do We Stand? A Global View of the Status and Future of Shale Oil Production from Oil Shale 14 1.5 Jeremy Boak Session 2: Plenary Session and Panel Discussion Chairs: Jason Hanson, Center of the American West; Ryan Clerico, Enefit American Oil Oil Shale Projects and the Social License to Operate 29 2.1 Ryan Clerico, Brian Wilkinson Panel Discussion on the Social License to Operate Oil Shale Production 55 2.2 Brian Wilkinson, Ryan Clerico, Jason Hanson Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Session 3: Geology & Stratigraphy Chairs: Ronald Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey; Pete Doumit, Norwest Corp. The Associations of Various Trace Elements to the Rock Components of Carbonate Oil Shale N/A 3.1 Orly Goren Stratigraphic And Lithologic Consistency And Variability Of The Mahogany Zone Oil Shale In The Eastern Uintah Basin, Utah 56 3.2 Pete Doumit, Steven Kerr, Lindsay Schou Quality of the Miocene Oil Shale and Petroleum Occurrences in Eregli- Ulukisla Basin, Central-Southern Turkey N/A 3.3 Ilker Senguler, Abdurrahman Murat Distribution of Dawsonite and Analcime in the Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado 67 3.4 Ronald Johnson, Justin Birdwell, Michael Brownfield Session 4: Retort Modeling Chairs:Indrek Aarna, Enefit; Michal Hradisky, University of Utah Oil Shale Attrition in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor 68 4.1 Richard Sherritt, Taavi Lauringson, Florian Philipps A Multiscale Modeling Method for the In-situ Conversion Process 76 4.2 Hangyu Li, Jeroen Vink, Faruk Alpak High Performance Computing Simulations of In-situ Thermal Treatment of Oil Shale 98 4.3 Michal Hradisky, Philip Smith, Alan Burnham Prediction of Ecoshale (TM) production profile using CFD and kinetic models 115 4.4 Olivier Garnier, Francoise Behar, Bernard Corre, Pierre Allix, James Patten, James Bunger, Tom Plikas Session 5: Economics Chairs: Jimmy Jia, University of Queensland; Kalev Kallemets, Tallinn University of Technology Optimal Resource Revenue Model for a Developed Country 123 5.1 Kalev Kallemets Economic Assessment of Oil Shale Development Scenarios in the Uinta Basin 131 5.2 Jonathan Wilkey, Jennifer Spinti, Terry Ring, Michael Hogue, Kerry Kelly Challenges and Risk Assessment for International Oil Shale Project 144 5.3 Jimmy Jia Session 6: Geochemistry Chairs: Ronald Pugmire, University of Utah; Andrew Pomerantz, Schlumberger Modern Methods of Characterizing the Chemical Composition of Bitumen and Kerogen: New Possibilities for Kinetic Models 155 6.1 Drew Pomerantz Geochemistry of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado 166 6.2 Jeremy Boak, Sheven Poole, Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene, J. Frederick Sarg Detailed Characterization And Pyrolysis Of Shale, Kerogen, Kerogen Chars, Bitumen, And Light Gases From A Green River Oil Shale Core 183 6.3 Ronald Pugmire, Thomas Fletcher, James Hillier, Mark Solum, Charles Mayne, Anita Orendt Characterization of Pyrolysis Products from a Utah Green River Oil Shale Sample by 13C NMR, GC/MS, and FTIR 198 6.4 Thomas H. Fletcher, Ryan Gillis, Jacob Adams, Charles L. Mayne, Mark S. Solum, Ronald J. Pugmire Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Session 7: Oil Shale Gases Chairs: Robert Kleinberg, Schlumberger; Terry Gulliver, Independent Consultant Catalytic Upgrading of the Gaseous Products of Oil Shale Retorting to Improve Energy Return 237 7.1 Osama Akoubeh, Jamal Al-Qudsi Gases and Microbes in Oil Shale 257 7.2 Terry Gulliver The Role of Produced Gases in the Economic Exploitation of Oil Shale 268 7.3 Robert Kleinberg, Tuong Van Le Doan, Alan Burnham, Andrew Pomerantz, Pierre Allix Thermodynamics Study of Hydrocarbon Gas Generation from Pyrolysis of Oil Shale 278 7.4 Zaid Al-Anber Session 8: Spectroscopy Chairs: Kathryn Washburn, Weatherford Labs; Justin Birdwell, USGS Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging of Shale 279 8.1 David Tuschel Rapid Screening of Oil Shale using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy 290 8.2 Kathryn Washburn, Justin Birdwell, Ronald Johnson, Michael Lewan Relating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Results on Oil Shale to Mineralogical and Elemental Content 301 8.3 Kathryn Washburn, Justin Birdwell Utilizing NIR Technology to Improve Oil Shale Processing 312 8.4 Marie Rath Session 9: Shale Oil Properties Chairs: Alan Chaffee, Monash University; Elsa Wang, Chevron Lummus Global Comparison of Nitrogen Compounds in Shale Oil and Coal Tar by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry 327 9.1 Cengceng Geng, Shuyuan Li Processing Options for Shale Oil Upgrading 345 9.2 Elsa Wang, Ujjal Mukherjee Comparison of Oil Shale Liquids with High S-content using Multidimensional Gas Chromatography 358 9.3 Alan L. Chaffee, Mohammad W. Amer, Blagoj Mitrevski, W. Roy Jackson, Phillip J. Marriott 9.4 Session 10: Oil Shale Properties Chairs: Gary Aho, Enefit American Oil; Earl Mattson, Idaho National Laboratory Oil Shale Rock Mechanics—How to Deal with Huge Changes with Grade and Temperature? 389 10.1 Alan Burnham Enefit’s Utah Oil Shale Bulk Sample Project 394 10.2 Ben France, Gary Aho X-ray Imaging Of A Fractured Oil Shale Sample During Heating 406 10.3 Earl Mattson, Mitch Plummer Testing Different Oil Shales in the Enefit Pilot Plant 414 10.4 Hermann Sieger, Richard Sherritt, Robert Mergler Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Session 11: Retort Technology Chairs: Steven Odut, UMATAC; Jeremy Boak, Colorado School of Mines Advances in the Tell Ertl Oil Shale Repository: Highlights of the Archive and an Interactive Review of Oil Shale Retorts 425 11.1 Julie Carmen GALOTER Method Applied to Solid Heat Carrier Installations: A History and Update 444 11.2 Ruslan Salikhov, Michael Petrov, Eduard Golmshtok, Alexander Morozov, Alexander Blokhin Paraho II – New Bench Retort Experimental Unit 445 11.3 Paul Longo Oil Shale and Fuel Oil Chemistry Related to Combustion and Fouling Issues, with Reference to Operation of the ATP Plant at Fushun, China 457 11.4 Alexander Lojewski, Steven Odut Session 12: Water & Power Chairs: Tom Fowler, Shell IE&P; Alan Burnham, AMSO Nuclear Heat And Power For In-Situ Shale Oil Production And Variable Electricity 465 12.1 Daniel Curtis, Charles Forsberg Low Water Use Technologies - Improvements to Shell’s Water Balance N/A 12.2 Tom Fowler, Tony Schroeder, Charles Meyer, Altaf Wani Renewables in Oil Shale Mining and Micro-grids 494 12.3 Danielle Prall, Paul Quinn Session 13: Oil Shale Development Chairs: Glenn Vawter, NOSA; Gerald Daub, Daub & Associates Oil Shale Development In Uzbekistan: The Sangruntau Project 507 13.1 Ruslan Salikhov, Asad Yusupkhodjaev Canada’s Oil Shales: The Time is Now 508 13.2 Erdal Yildirim Mining the Refuse Pile of Oil Shale Processing Technologies – Resurrecting the Fluid Bed Retort 523 13.3 Larry M. Southwick Oil Shale – A Vital Domestic Energy Source 536 13.4 Glenn Vawter Session 14: Hazards & Environmental Issues Chairs: Harry Posey, Shell IE&P; Erik Puura, University of Tartu Spontaneous Fires in Oil Shale Deposits: From Hazards to Resources 541 14.1 Leonid Anisimov Environmental Baseline Surveys at Shell’s Second Generation Oil Shale ICP Project, Piceance Basin, Colorado 542 14.2 Harry Posey, Jim Finley, Flo Vuelvas Some Aspects of Hydrologic Monitoring in the Piceance Basin, Colorado 556 14.3 Glen A. Miller Environmental Impacts of Estonian Oil Shale Industry: Lessons Learned during 97 Years of Utilization 565 14.4 Erik Puura Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Session 15: U.