Geothermal Heat In Calgary: An Oil And Gas Retrofit
Abstract
Alberta is home to hundreds of thousands of non-productive oil and gas wells that are currently both safety and financial liabilities to companies. A portion of these wells has potential to become an asset. This project seeks to determine if non-productive wells can be converted to geothermal purposes to provide heat to Calgary homes and businesses. To date, the research in this area is quite limited, but did provide the basis of design for the geothermal heat exchanger
modelled in this project. To advance work in this field of study, an extensive review of existing work was performed. Then the most viable well was selected and used as the basis for a heattransfer model. The study concludes with economic and environmental assessments. The project shows that while a geothermal retrofit of a non-productive hydrocarbon well is possible, it is not economically viable under the circumstances of the study.
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Reid, J. (2017). Geothermal Heat In Calgary: An Oil And Gas Retrofit (Unpublished report). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.