Exploitation of hydrocarbon resources throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
has been accompanied by the production of trillions of cubic meters of aqueous fluids, ie
brines, which are either recirculated to maintain reservoir pressure, or reinjected in far-flung
disposal wells. Basin-wide, these brines carry petawatts of thermal power to the Earth's
surface. Socio-economic demand for renewable power, coupled with recent advances in low-
enthalpy waste heat recovery, has led to increasing interest from oil field operators in …