Solar Calciner Enhanced Oil Recovery

A calcining hydrocarbon recovery method, comprising:

• surface mining an alkaline carbonate at a carbonate site in a carbonate resource comprising carbon dioxide (herein CO2) compounded with one or more alkaline oxides of calcium and/or magnesium;
• crushing mined carbonate and supplying crushed carbonate to a first calcining site;
• solar calcining a portion of the crushed carbonate at the first calcining site,
• whereby solar generating CO2 and an alkaline oxide;
• forming a first enhancing fluid comprising a portion of the solar generated CO2;
• delivering a portion of the first enhancing fluid through a plurality of injection wells into a first enhancement site comprising mobilizable hydrocarbon with a injector well weighted first enhancement location within a prescribed solar CO2 delivery distance from the first calcining site, whereby forming mobilized hydrocarbon;
• producing, from the first enhancement site, a produced fluid comprising mobilized hydrocarbon and produced enhancing fluid;
• separating, from the produced fluid, a recovered hydrocarbon and residual enhancing fluid;
• and
• recycling a portion of the residual enhancing fluid to the first enhancement site;
• wherein the prescribed solar CO2 delivery distance is less than about 60% of a scalar average alkali demand distance DADC, of a demand weighted average of one or more absolute scalar distances from the first mean enhancement location to one or more alkali demand locations selected from one or more population demand centers, and one or more industrial demand centers, having a combined alkali demand for alkaline oxide greater than a design rate of alkaline oxide generation in one or more calciners comprising a solar calciner installed to calcine carbonate at the first calcining site.

A method of calcining-proving hydrocarbon recovery, comprising:

• mining at a first mining site a carbonate resource comprising a carbonate of calcium and/or magnesium, within a prescribed mining distance from a first hydrocarbon enhancement site in a first hydrocarbon resource;
• crushing the carbonate and delivering a portion of the crushed carbonate to a solar first calciner at a first calcining site having a local calcining design capacity;
• calcining the portion of the delivered crushed carbonate,
• whereby solar generating carbon dioxide (herein CO2) and alkaline oxide;
• delivering an enhancing fluid comprising a portion of the solar generated CO2 into a first enhancement site, whereby mobilizing a hydrocarbon;
• producing, from the first enhancement site, a produced fluid comprising mobilized hydrocarbon and enhancing fluid;
• and
• separating, from the produced fluid, a recovered hydrocarbon and a recovered fluid comprising CO2;
• wherein recovering hydrocarbon with a hydrocarbon production profile for a duration sufficient to prove a first reserve of CO2 co-producible hydrocarbon;
• and
• wherein the prescribed mining distance is less than about 50% of a remote calcining distance, to the first enhancement site from a remote calciner site having a remote design calcining capacity equal to or greater than the local calcining design capacity.