Research Article
Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Using GIS on Application of HTR to Thermal Recovery of Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Table 4
Costs of steam injection at lower fossil fuel price and higher bank rate.
| Injection
mode | Construction
investment
($/(t·y)) | Fuel cost
($/t or $/m3) | Operating
cost ($/t) | Full operating
cost ($/t) | Full cost for steam
injection ($/t) |
| | Coal | 29.78 | 25.19 | 8.766 | 11.71 | 14.87 | | Natural gas | 15.54 | 0.1368 | 10.45 | 14.10 | 15.74 | | HTR-PM | 95.17 | — | — | 5.62 | 15.72 |
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Time = 30 years, bank rate = 10%.
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