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SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference
June 9–11, 2015
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference
Half-Century of Heavy Oil Polymer Flooding from Laboratory Core Floods to Pilot Tests and Field Applications
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174402-MS
Practical Approach to Caprock Analysis
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174403-MS
Hole Cleaning Performance of Water vs. Polymer-Based Fluids Under Turbulent Flow Conditions
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174404-MS
Continuous Environmentally Efficient Pipeline Leak Detection
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174405-MS
Investigation on Combined CO2 Sequestration and Electrical Heating Assisted Gravity Draingage to Enhance Heavy Oil Production
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174406-MS
A Successful Post Completion Sand Control Method Used in Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery Operations at the Kern River Field in Bakersfield, CA
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174407-MS
Development of a Thermal Wellbore Simulator With Focus on Improving Heat Loss Calculations for SAGD Steam Injection
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174408-MS
Feasibility of Wider Well Spacing With Solvent Aided Process: A Field Test Based Investigation
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174411-MS
Physical and Numerical Simulations of Subsurface Upgrading using Solvent Deasphalting in a Heavy Crude Oil Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174412-MS
Remediation of Channeled Wells and Completions of Infill Wells by Using Resin-Coated Proppant and Proppant Coated with Special Resins in an Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174413-MS
Performance Evaluation of a Newly Developed Demulsifier on Dilbit Dehydration, Demineralization and Hydrocarbon Losses to Tailings
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174414-MS
Geomechanical Modelling of Cyclic Steaming Induced Surface Deformation
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174415-MS
Use of Flow Control Devices (FCDs) to Enforce Conformance in Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Completions
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174416-MS
Drained/Undrained Zones Boundary in Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Process
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174417-MS
A Method to Calculate In–situ Water Relative-Permeability Using the Response at Observation Well Adjacent To Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage Well-Pairs
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174419-MS
Novel Water-Based Fluids for Oil-Sands Drilling
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174420-MS
Evaluating EOR Potential in an Unconventional Heavy-Oil Reservoir with Strong Foamy Solution Gas Drive
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174423-MS
Evaluation of Diffusion of Light Hydrocarbon Solvents in Bitumen
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174424-MS
Coupled Reservoir and Geomechanical Modeling of Sand Production in Waterflooding of Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174425-MS
Optimizing Steam Injection Scheduling Using Analytical Models in a Probabilistic Approach
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174427-MS
Reactive Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage Oil Sands Recovery Process
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174428-MS
Optimized Solvent for Solvent Assisted-Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SA-SAGD) Recovery Process
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174429-MS
A Practical Approach for the Modeling of Foamy Oil Drive Process
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174431-MS
Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Bitumen Bearing Reservoir Rocks
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174434-MS
Monitoring and Optimization of an In-Situ Combustion Pilot Applying STAR™ Technology
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174435-MS
Steam Circulation Strategies in the Fengcheng SAGD Project to Achieve Enhanced Conformance and Production: A Case Study
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174436-MS
Geochemical Bitumen Characterization for the Saleski Steam Pilot in the Grosmont Carbonate Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174438-MS
The Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation and Clay Migration on Wettability Alteration for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and Expanding Solvent-SAGD (ES-SAGD)
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174439-MS
Case study of Solvent-Assisted Start-up in Fengcheng SAGD Project
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174440-MS
Reservoir Simulation of H2S Production During a SAGD Process Using a New Sulfur-Based-Compositional Kinetic Model
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174441-MS
Performance Step Change in Shallow Extended Reach Wells in Venezuela Enables Drilling Optimization and Increased Heavy Oil Production
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174443-MS
Multiphase Equilibria of Solvent-Steam-Bitumen System within SAGD Steam-Chamber Boundary
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174444-MS
Impact of Formation Dilation-Recompaction on Development of Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) in an Unconventional Heavy-Oil Reservoir: Seal's Cadotte Case
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174446-MS
Type Curves for Cyclic Steam Operations in the Grosmont Saleski Pilot and Their Implications for Recovery Mechanisms
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174448-MS
Thermal Formation Damage and Relative Permeability of Oil Sands of the Lower Cretaceous Formations in Western Canada
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174449-MS
Evaluation of Thermal Efficiency of the Pre-Heat Period in the SAGD Process for Different Completion Methods
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174450-MS
Experimental Study on Geomechanical Dilation during Injection
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174453-MS
Mini-Frac Analysis in Oilsands and their Associated Cap Rocks Using PTA Based Techniques
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174454-MS
Oil Recovery From Gas Over Bitumen (GOB) Reservoirs - Results From the AIDROH Pilot Project in Alberta
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174455-MS
Simultaneous History Matching for Multiple Different Oil Sands Reservoir Models: Case Study of Hangingstone Demo Area
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174457-MS
Performance Data of a Distributed Flux Burner in a Heavy Oil Heater Treater
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174458-MS
Real-Time Seismic Surveillance of Thermal EOR at Peace River
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174459-MS
Practical Data Mining and Artificial Neural Network Modeling for SAGD Production Analysis
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174460-MS
Application of Novel Hyper-branched Polymer Fracturing Fluid System in Low-permeability Heavy Oil Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174461-MS
Geo-Mechanics of a Sugar-Cube Box: Cyclic Injection and Production in a Fractured Carbonate at the Saleski Pilot
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174462-MS
Steam Injection Schemes for Bitumen Recovery from the Grosmont Carbonate Deposits
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174463-MS
Production of Gases During Thermal Displacement Tests
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174464-MS
Heavy Crude Oil Dewatering Processes for Fluid Property Measurements: Comparison, Impact, and Suitability of Methods
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174465-MS
History Matches and Interpretation of CHOPS Performance for CSI Field Pilot
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174466-MS
History Match and Strategy Evaluation for CSI Pilot
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174467-MS
Enhanced Viscosity Formulations For Steam Foam Applications: Impact On Performances In Bulk And Porous Media
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174469-MS
Non-Linearity and Stress-Dependency In Unconsolidated Formations and the Associated Impacts on Thermal Recovery: An Analytical Assessment
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174470-MS
Surveillance Techniques for Recovery Factor Optimization in a High Viscosity Unconsolidated Sand Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174471-MS
Effects of Lithofacies and Reservoir Heterogeneity on Improved Oil Recovery Processes
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174473-MS
Determination of Two-Phase and Three-Phase Relative Permeabilities in Heavy Oil/Water/Gas Systems
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174475-MS
Improving Horizontal Well Placement in the Orinoco Oil Belt with the Use of Bed Boundary Mapping Technologies
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174476-MS
On the Accuracy of Surface Movement Measurement over a SAGD Operation in Northern Alberta through Effective Survey Design
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174477-MS
Improvement of the Recovery Factor Using Nano-Metal Particles at the Late Stages of Cyclic Steam Stimulation
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174478-MS
Thinking Beyond the Conventional - A Case Story of Using a Surface Read out Wireline Device while Ranging to Reduce Risk of Failure During Drilling of a Sagd Well in Hot Zone
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174479-MS
Optimization of CO2 Flooding Strategy to Enhance Heavy Oil Recovery
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174480-MS
Evaluating SAGD Performance due to Changes in Well Spacing and Length
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174481-MS
Dissolution and Mobilization of Bitumen at Pore Scale
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174482-MS
Enhanced Thermal Well Integrity Through The Use Of A New Cement Tensile Strength-enhancing Fiber
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174483-MS
A Parametric Study of the Hydrodynamic Roughness Produced by a Wall-Coating Layer of Oil during the Pipeline Transportation of Heavy Oil-Water Mixtures
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174485-MS
Experimental Evaluation of H2S Yields during Thermal Recovery Processes
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174486-MS
Methodology for In-Well DTS Verifications in SAGD Wells
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174487-MS
Investigation of Nanoparticle and Surfactant Stabilized Emulsion to Enhance Oil Recovery in Waterflooded Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174488-MS
Chemical Additives and Foam to Enhance SAGD Performance
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174489-MS
Design, Testing, and Field Performance of Steam-Injection Flow-Control Devices for Use in SAGD Oil Recovery
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174490-MS
Successful Application of Hot Water Circulation in the Pelican Lake Field - Results and Analyses of the E29 Hot Water Injection Pilot
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174491-MS
Eliminating the Silver Bullet from SAGD Casing Cementing
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174492-MS
Performance Characterization and Optimization of Cement Systems for Thermally Stimulated Wells
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174493-MS
Modelling of Non-Condensable gas Injection In SAGD Process - Important Mechanisms And Their Impact On Field Scale Simulation Models
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174494-MS
InSAR Natural Reflector Survey for Surface Heave and Steam Chamber Monitoring at a SAGD Site
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174496-MS
Study of the Non-Equilibrium PVT Properties of Methane- and Propane-Heavy Oil Systems
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174498-MS
Impact of Flow Control Devices on SAGD Performance from Less Heterogeneous to Strongly Heterogeneous Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174501-MS
Detailed History Matching of a SAGD Well Pair Using Discretized Wellbore Modeling
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174502-MS
SAGD Liner Evaluation and Liner Test Design for JACOS Hangingstone SAGD Development
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174503-MS
Well Integrity Evaluation Using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) on an Operating SAGD Injector Well Influenced by Neighboring Steam Chambers
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174504-MS
Rigorous coupling of geomechanics and thermal-compositional flow for SAGD and ES-SAGD operations
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174508-MS
Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for Anisotropic Caprock in SAGD Projects
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174509-MS
New Insight on Carbonate Heavy Oil Recovery: Pore Scale Mechanisms of Solvent Alternating CO2 Foam/Polymer Enhanced Foam Flooding
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174510-MS
A New Polymer Flooding Technology for Improving Heavy Oil Reservoir Recovery-from Lab Study to Field Application- Case Study of High Temperature Heavy Oil Field Z70
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174511-MS
Case Study of Flue Gas Assisted SAGD in Offshore Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174517-MS
Integration of PC-SAFT Equation of State into Heat Assisted Solvent Recovery Simulation
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174518-MS
Mathermatical Modeling of Dynamic Mass Transfer in Cyclic Solvent Injection
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174519-MS
Selection of a Chemical EOR Strategy in a Heavy Oil Reservoir Using Laboratory Data and Reservoir Simulation
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174520-MS
Nodal Analysis for SAGD Production Wells with Gas Lift
Paper presented at the SPE Canada Heavy Oil Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/174521-MS
