Improved Techniques for the Extraction of Primary Forms of Energy: A Seminar of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Vienna 10–14 November 1980)

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Improved Techniques for the Extraction of Primary Forms of Energy: A General Overview....Pages 1-26
Introduction....Pages 27-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Role of Increased Efficiency in the Extraction of Primary forms of Energy Within National Energy and Research and Development Policies Hydrocarbons....Pages 43-49
The Role of Increased Efficiency in the Extraction of Primary forms of Energy Within National Energy and Research Development Policies....Pages 50-65
Conventional Techniques for Increasing the Recovery of Oil and Gas from Underground Deposits: The State and Prospects....Pages 66-76
Progress and Trends in the Development of Conventional Technologies for the Extraction of Primary Forms of Energy....Pages 77-83
The Prospects of using Improved and Newly Developed Recovery Techniques for Exploiting Alternative Energy Sources as a Substitute for Conventional Fossil Fuels....Pages 84-97
Prospects of the New Techniques Designed for the Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Resources....Pages 98-125
Experience in and Opportunities for Developing International Co-Operation in the Field of Improved Fossil Fuel Extraction Techniques....Pages 126-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Improved Resource Recovery in Coal Mining—A Global Overview....Pages 133-133
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: State of the Art and Potential....Pages 134-135
Recovery of Combustible Material From Spoil Heaps....Pages 136-137
Main Trends in Research and Development in Belgium Collieries....Pages 138-138
Consolidation of Coal and Strata with Polyurethane in Long-Wall....Pages 139-140
Recovery of Fuels from Spoil Heaps in the Bassin Du Nord and Pas-De-Calais Collieries....Pages 141-142
Open-Cast Coal Mining in France....Pages 143-144
Special Aspects of Underground Coal Gasification in Western Europe....Pages 145-145
Limits of Output From Fully Mechanized Longwalls....Pages 146-147
Surface Mining in Oil-Sands....Pages 148-149
Ways and Means to Achieve Higher Recovery of the Deposits in the Lignite Mines of the Koflach District in the Alps....Pages 150-151
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Economic Mining of the Lignite Deposit Zangtal Unterflöz as Example for Mastering Difficult Geological Goiditions in the Alps....Pages 152-153
Tertiary Recovery by CO 2 Flooding in Hungarian Fields....Pages 154-155
Working the Warwickshire Thick Coal....Pages 156-156
The Feasibility of Increasing the Recovery Factor from the Nagylengyel Deposit in Hungary by Tertiary Oil Recovery using Ammonia Injection....Pages 157-158
Recovery of Tip Coal in the South Wales Coalfield....Pages 159-159
Effective Development of Coal Winning in Bulgaria....Pages 160-161
Exploitation of Coal Deposits Under Hazardous Conditions....Pages 162-163
Exploitation of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Reservoirs in Poland....Pages 164-165
Mining of Safety Pillars is Poland as a Rational Element of Energy Reserves Management....Pages 166-166
Legal Aspects of the Mineral Deposits Economy....Pages 167-168
Improved Economic Method for the Utilization of Wastes from Coal Extraction in Poland....Pages 169-170
Status and Further Development of Fracturing Deep and Low-Permeable Gas Reservoirs....Pages 171-171
Experience in Sour Gas Production From Depth of 6,000 m....Pages 172-172
The Importance of Geological Features in Designing Open-Pit Lignite Exploitations....Pages 173-174
The Belgian-German Project for Deep Underground Gasification....Pages 175-175
Taking up and Analysing Workings and Figures for the Evaluation of Functional Interdependences and their use for Computer-Based Research and Technical/Economical Improvements of Conventional Tunneling Operations at Collieries in the Ruhr-District....Pages 176-176
Improvement of Methods of Extracting and Refining Oil Shales and their Technical and Economic Evaluation....Pages 177-178
Underground Coal Gasification in the USSR....Pages 179-180
Economic Conditions for the Production of Hydrocarbon Feedstock from Bituminous Rocks and Oil Shales....Pages 181-182
Economic and Technical Problems of Raising the Oil Recovery Factor of Seams in the USSR....Pages 183-184
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Economic Possibilities of Exploiting the World’s Non-Conventional Resources of Natural Hydrocarbons....Pages 185-186
Increased Productivity by Improved Cuttiig Technology....Pages 187-188
Status of Work on the Extraction of Bitumens....Pages 189-189
Increasing the Extraction of Oil from the Ground Through the Use of In Situ Oxidizing Processes....Pages 190-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-194