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OSLO
Cold Water Extraction (OCWE)
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OCWE
technology separates bitumen from oil sands in surface-mining operations.
The process is less harmful to the environment as it does not use
caustic to improve the bitumen extraction and operates at ambient
temperatures.
The main advantage of this technology is that is offers equivalent
extraction as the current hot water process, improved quality of the
tailings and large energy savings. Those savings equate to a 60 per
cent reduction in CO2 emissions.
This technology has made the planned expansion of Syncrude's operations
to remote ore bodies practical. The OCWE technology is part of Syncrude's
Low Energy Extraction Process.
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