Solution Developer

General Energy Recovery Inc. (GERI)

Project Description

GERI (General Energy Recovery Inc.) is a Canadian Energy Transition Technology company. With a mission of "Recovering More, Emitting Less", we aim to enable oil producers to achieve the tricky balance of boosting recovery, decarbonizing at speed, and ensuring healthy returns on abatement investments. 

Our award-winning Direct Contact Steam Generation (DCSG) technology unlocks otherwise un-recoverable oil reserves at low carbon intensity by co-injecting a single stream of steam (or hot water) and combustion exhaust gases (CO2 and N2) into oil reservoirs.

Most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in thermal heavy-oil recovery are generated during the creation of high-pressure steam that is injected into reservoirs to get highly viscous oil to flow. By contrast, GERI's technology co-injects steam and combustion exhaust gases downhole, simultaneously improving the efficiency of oil recovery (by adding both heat and pressure) and mitigating the atmospheric release of GHGs, permanently storing much of the CO2 in the reservoir. Results have shown as much as 70% of CO2 injected downhole remaining underground, and in all cases oil production increasing significantly over the baseline rate. 

To date GERI has completed 4 pilot projects. Each project has allowed us to refine our technology and better understand, and anticipate, oil reservoir responses (both in terms of oil production and the capturing of CO2). CRIN funding is supporting our fifth pilot project, for which we've deployed our DCSG equipment to a remote well location in Northern Alberta. The purpose of this most recent pilot is to test our co-injection technology in a new type of reservoir, uniquely suited to benefit from injected CO2 (and N2), and likely to retain more CO2 below ground than previous pilots.

For this latest project, GERI also worked closely with leading Canadian greenhouse gas emissions consulting firm, Brightspot (brightspot.co), to ensure the project's emissions tracking and measurement plan met Alberta Provincial emissions measurement standards.

Project Resources

https://www.geri.com/

https://ca.linkedin.com/company/geri