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Enhanced Oil Recovery, National Petroleum Council Report, Washiagton, D.C., 1984. 

National Petroleum Council. (1992). The Potential for Nntiirnl Gas in the United States. Washington, DC, National Petroleum Council. 

FIGURE 6.4 Steam flooding is one of two principal thermal methods for oil recovery and has been commercially applied since the early 1960s. A mixture of steam and hot water is continuously injected into the oil-bearing formation to displace mobilized oil to adjacent production wells. Reprinted with permission from Enhanced Oil Recovery. Copyright 1984 by the National Petroleum Council. 

Table I presents a refinery sulfur recovery capacity forecast made by the National Petroleum Council (NPC). The top portion of the table represents the initial conditions based on current crude input and refinery product slates the bottom indicates additional capacity required for each of three, non-additive, scenarios. As the NPC study shows that sulfur production, as a percent of capacity, in 1982 is expected to be 60% in district I, 54% in district II, 71% in district III, 72% in district IV, and 49% in district V...

Source National Petroleum Council. "Refinery Flexibility An... 

Interim Report" National Petroleum Council Washington, D. C., December 1979 Volume I. 

National Petroleum Council. "Refinery Flexibility An Interim Report" National Petroleum Council Washington, DC, December 1979 Vol. II, Tables C.6.1.1-C.6.1.3, pp C-196, C-199, C-202. 

National Petroleum Council. "U.S. Energy Outlook 0il Shale Availability" National Petroleum Council Washington, DC,... 

U.S. Energy Outlook, An Interim Report, 9 National Petroleum Council... 

National Petroleum Council, "Survey on Refinery Flexibility, an Interim Report," U. S. Department of Energy, January, 1980. 

National Petroleum Council, U.S. Petroleum Refining Assuring the Adequacy and Affordability of Cleaner Fuels, June 20, 2000. 

NPC. National Petroleum Council. 2001. Securing Oil and Natural Gas Infrastructures in the New Economy. Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Energy. June. 

National Petroleum Council Report "Enhanced Oil Recovery," National Petroleum Council, 1625 K Street N.W., Washington D.C. 20006, June 21, 1984. 

National Petroleum Council, "Factors Affecting U.S. Oil Gas Outlook," February 1987. 

Studies of more than 200 polymer floods reported that the total amount of polymer injected on average was 19 to 150 Ib/acre-ft, which is equivalent to 23.3 to 184.2 mg/L PV if a porosity of 0.3 is used. The polymer concentrations were 50 to 3700 mg/L in the early days (Mamique et al., 2007). The 1976 U.S. National Petroleum Council (NPC) study reported 125 mg/L PV. In contrast, the amount of polymer reported in the 1984 NPC study was increased to 240 mg/L PV, but it is still much lower than that used in China (Chang et al, 2006). 

The major reservoirs of natural CO occur around the Permian Basin area. Sheep Mountain, in southeastern Colorado is estimated to contain one trillion cubic feet (TCF) of CO2 of 97% purity. Productive capacity is approximately 300 MCF per day. Other important sources include Brano Dome in New Mexico with reserves of 5 TCF and with total productive capacity of approximately 350 MCF per day. The McElmo Dome has reserves of greater than 8 TCF (97% purity) of the same productive capacity as the Brano Dome Unit. The potential for the McElmo Dome is believed to be approximately 1 billion cubic feet per day. In addition, other units include Jackson Dome, Mississippi (1 TCF proven) and the LaBrage area of southwestern Wyoming which is believed to have reserves in excess of 20 TCF. These data, based on the 1984 National Petroleum Council study of enhanced oil recovery, indicate that the aggregate supply is approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day. 

Estimates of investmort and operating costs of Fischer-Tropsch plants were made in 1953 by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Petroleum Council. The cost of a 27,000-bbl-per-day synthetic liquid-fuels plant using coal-steam-o (ygen pressure gasification was estimated at 290 milUon dollars, not including the costs for a coal mine, royalties, start-up expense, and working capital. With these items included, the total investment cost amounted to 380-400 million dollars, which is equivalent to about 514,500 per daily barrel of oil. 

From information released by the National Petroleum Council, the cost of manufacturing synthetic gasoline has been estimated at slightly more than 17 cents per gal without allowance for return on investment and Federal income taxes. These two items amount to a total of 12 cents per gal for a 6 per cent return on investment. Improvements in technology should result in reduction of the costs. A breakdown of the various manufacturing costs is shown in Table 11-7. 

Based on Supplementary Report of SubccHumittee on Synthetic Fuels—Production Costs to National Petroleum Council, 1953 27,000 barrel-per-day capacity. Based on 1951 investment costs and labor rates. 

In its most recent assessment of natural gas markets, the National Petroleum Council (2003) suggests there has been a fundamental shift in the natural gas supply and demand balance as power generators and industrial customers have become more dependent on gas-fired... 

Figure 2.16. National Petroleum Council long-term natural gas supply forecasts.

National Petroleum Council (NPC) (2003). Balancing Natural Gas Demand -Fueling the Demands of a Crowing Economy. National Petroleum Council. 

In the United States, the remaining producible reserve is estimated to be 21 billion barrels. Of this 21 billion, cm-rently implemented EOR projects are expected to recover 3 billion barrels. A 1998 report in the Oil and Gas Journal listed a production of 759,653 barrels of oil per day (b/d) from EOR projects in the United States. This amoimt represented about 12% of the total U S. oil prodirctioa A somewhat dated but highly informative study conducted by the U.S. National Petroleum Council (NPC) and pubhshed in 1984 determined that, with current EOR technology, an estimated 14.5 billion barrels of oil could be produced in the United States over a 30-yr period. This amount includes the 3 billion barrels that are expected to be produced from current EOR projects. The 14.5-billion-barrel figure was derived from a series of assumptions and subsequent model predictions. Included in the assumptions was an oil base price of 30 per barrel in constant 1983 U.S. dollars. The ultimate oil recovery was projected to be very sensitive to oil price, as shown in Table I. 

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