... Abstract The Underground Test Facility (UTF) is producing from three tunnel drilled 500 meter long horizontal well pairs which have produced effectively at their peak rates and reached recoveries of almost 55% 00IP. Two new pairs of 750 meter and 300 meter horizontal wells have been drilled...

... Abstract A numerical simulation study was conducted for the application of the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology developed at the Alberta Departmentof Energy Underground Test Facility (UTF) pilot to a dipping oil sandsreservoir in the Liaoning province of north east China...

... Abstract The successful demonstration of the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process in the Athabasca oil sands at the Alberta Department of Energy, Oil Sands and Research Division (ADOE-OSRD, formerly AOSTRA) operated Underground Test Facility (UTF) prompted Shell Canada Limited...

... Abstract The Underground Test Facility (UTF) is on the verge of ompletely demonstrating the technical feasibility of the dual well steam assisted gravity drainage (SACD) method of extracting bitumen from the one trillion barrel (E 12 ) Athabasca deposit near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada...

... Abstract The Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) and its participants have successfully completed the Phase A pilot operation at the Underground Test Facility (UTF). As part of the Phase A project, a numerical modelling program has been underway to study...

... general areas within the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit wherethe technologies developed at the Underground Test Facility might be suitablefor exploitation of the resource. The relationships between depth, net pay, quality of the reservoir, total reserves, potential thief zones andavailability of a suitable...