The Santa Rosa Tar Sands Project involves strip mining of a surface deposit of oil impregnated sandstone at Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The ore is delivered to an extraction plant where it is crushed and the oil extracted using solvent and hot water. A clean damp sand residue is to be returned for back filling the mine (apart from the flue gases involved in untility requirements).

Keywords:
sandstone, new mexico, extraction process, damp sand, test unit, mining, solv-ex process, ore, spe 11254, emulsion
Subjects:
Unconventional Production Facilities, Improved and Enhanced Recovery, Unconventional and Complex Reservoirs, Environment, Oil sand/shale/bitumen, Oil sand, oil shale, bitumen
Copyright 1982, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
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