1. Coalinga S2S: Solar-thermal EOR
Binyamin Koretz Director, Strategic Planning & IP 1

2. Coalinga Solar to Steam Project (S2S)
Owner: Chevron
Location: Coalinga, CA
Purpose: Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery
Capacity: 29 MWth
Solar field: 3,822 heliostats, each 15 m2
BrightSource delivered fully operational project to Chevron in October 2011
1-year performance test exceeded contractual goals

3. Coalinga S2S

4. Coalinga vs. future EOR plant
Commercial Plant
Required thermal power capacity:
29 MWth
400 MWth
Required mass flow of steam:
12 kg/s 
kg/s
Required temperature of steam:
 265 °C
290 °C
Required pressure of steam:
 68 bar
80 bar
Steam quality
99.5% or higher

5. Solar EOR – general scheme

6. Coalinga S2S 1-line diagram

7. Construction

8. What happens when engineers make videos

9. View from the south

10. Typical performance vs. modeling

11. And on more difficult days

12. Potential market
Chart Source: CERA estimate of cumulative solar thermal penetration in thermal enhanced oil recovery market by 2020

13. Thank you