What are the benefits of GSEs technology for oil sands producers?
For oil sands production, the benefits of this technology include: • Maximizing the extraction of bitumen, including from lower grade oil sands; • Minimizing water requirements; • Reducing energy requirements; • Significantly reducing the extraction time; • Enhancing the environmental sustainability of the extraction process by substantially decreasing the emission of pollutants and the generation of greenhouse gases, thus resulting in a low carbon footprint; • Operating a process capable of remedying the existing tailing ponds with concomitant recovery of additional bitumen; • Enabling producers to establish an economically compelling process in light of the renewability and/or recyclability of the reagent as well as the relative simplicity of the technology; and • Eliminating the need for diluent to facilitate the transport of extracted bitumen due to the viscosity-reducing property of the reagent.
