Blue Ensign Technologies
Blue Ensign Technologies Limited is a company that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and want to win a patented technology, the Rendall Process, extract oil or energy from oil shale. Founded the Blue Ensign in 1997 as e.Com Global Limited, a company of telecommunications and Internet technology, which was entlistet 2001 at the Australian Stock Exchange and sold in 2006. The company Blue Ensign comprises units of the Australian Thermal Solutions Pty Ltd. , The Queensland Shale Oil Limited and the RP International Limited together.
Julia Creek Project
According to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey, the world's oil reserves are in oil shale, conservatively estimated, about 2.8 trillion barrels. This is the amount of oil consumed by the late 1800s until 2006. Because of the large deposits are found in a long time attempts to use this energy potential. Using a patented process, the Rendall Process, it should be possible to produce on an industrial scale oil from oil shale in a petrochemical process. From this process a high energy yield and high profit, low cost, scalability and low environmental interventions is expected.
The Queensland Shale Oil Limited has a 93 km ² area at the Julia Creek in Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef. There Blue Ensign has to build against a system that first reaches the production of a ton per hour, in order to show that this process allows for commercial use. In a further stage of development a plant is to be built, which can produce about 600 tons per hour; and in the final phase is projected to demonstrate a complete system that will show that 3,000 tons can be produced from an oil shale field in the size of 2 hectares and 30 meters depth economically justifiable. Subsequently, an economic use in the first large-scale industrial plants and universalisation of the patent is sought.
Rendall Process
The Rendall Process Oil shale is mixed with a mixed petroleum fuel. This mixture is heated to about 450 ° C at about 600 psi pressure in a pressure chamber. This leads to a hydrogenation of the oil shale to a solvent. The resulting oil shale gas is used to produce heat or energy.