... Abstract Lloydminster area that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan border contains vast amounts of heavy oil deposits in thin unconsolidated formations. It is believed that the heavy oil resource volume is in the 50 to 70 billion bbl range which makes it a world class resource. This work...

... upstream oil & gas solvent recovery water saturation analytical solution rayleigh number gravity drainage process critical rayleigh number convection lean zone alberta canada Introduction Current in-situ commercial recovery methods for heavy oil or bitumen use steam as the mobile...

... Recovery (EOR) to recover more of this stranded oil resource. Wire-wrapped screens were investigated, using a High-Pressure High Temperature Sand Retention Testing (HPHT-SRT) apparatus, for sand control and inflow performance in a CHOPS formation near Bonnyville, Alberta. A new HPHT-SRT apparatus...

... Abstract Lloydminster area that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan border contains vast amounts of heavy oil deposits in thin unconsolidated formations. It is believed that the heavy oil resource volume is in the 50 to 70 billion bbl range which makes it a world class resource. This work...

... and opportunities for improvements. SAGD sand production SCD Alberta Symposium Bennion Upstream Oil & Gas flow rate Exhibition application Ballard permeability Screen Selection Romanova pressure drop operation fattahpour coupon steam-assisted gravity drainage criteria particle...

... flow pressure drop Mahmoudi nouri society of petroleum engineers steam-assisted gravity drainage liner thermal method enhanced recovery sand production Upstream Oil & Gas oscillation mechanism subcool Alberta steam breakthrough Canada experimental investigation PSD operation...

... drainage SAGD enhanced recovery thermal method Upstream Oil & Gas sand control testing Alberta sand control performance pressure drop injection well steam injection well backflow reservoir slot density sand production PSD slotted liner injector well coupon Exhibition Mahmoudi...

... & Simulation SAGD Upstream Oil & Gas extraction recovery factor top water zone MAVP bitumen application cSOR oil production plane vertical plane relative permeability curve thermal method steam-assisted gravity drainage Alberta mavp system permeability oil production rate chamber growth...

... to address the specific needs of remote observation wells within a northern Alberta SAGD field. An acquisition system with extended working temperature range and small geometry form is installed within enclosures equipped with temperature-control devices and zonal certification. Downhole temperature data...

... Abstract Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD) has been extensively applied in thermal recovery from oilsands reservoirs in the Athabasca region of Northern Alberta. As the steam chambers associated with SAGD well pairs become mature, a form of abandonment is often applied for pressure...

...-pressure conditions relevant to ES-SAGD. Upstream Oil & Gas water mixture equilibrium saturation pressure composition bitumen water mixture enhanced recovery emulsion Alberta temperature-pressure condition PVT measurement boundary EOS model kariznovi MPa experimental data...

... at high range of proppant concentrations and also due to the low stress regime in the Alberta oil sands. Furthermore, the design considerations for various liner systems that can combine the fracturing process and the SAGD phase are discussed and a few new designs are proposed. Finally, a step by step...

.... Ignoring the anisotropy in caprock can potentially cause a considerable overestimation of the MOP. Reservoir Characterization steam-assisted gravity drainage SAGD project Alberta thermal method SAGD cap shale assessment enhanced recovery caprock clearwater shale reservoir geomechanics...

... mechanistic studies (both numerically and experimentally) and provide valuable input to the challenges of optimizing SA-SAGD processes in oil sands. Modeling & Simulation enhanced recovery solvent concentration steam chamber coupling steam-solvent combination concentration Alberta mobile...

... of heterogeneous reservoir features from the profiles of SAGD field production data. enhanced recovery steam-assisted gravity drainage machine learning neural network Artificial Intelligence Upstream Oil & Gas thermal method heterogeneity Alberta production rate dataset modeling shale barrier...

... flow rate pH value enhanced recovery waterflooding pressure drop composition fine migration complex reservoir slotted liner coupon flow rate Alberta multi-slot coupon permeability clay particle vaidya Introduction There have been a few research works on the effect of pH...

... not provide as much spatial coverage with NRs as was found at the target region discussed in this paper. InSAR coverage in these areas could be done using CRs. enhanced recovery Upstream Oil & Gas synthetic aperture radar Artificial Intelligence Alberta thermal method steam-assisted gravity...

... & Simulation overburden inversion result Alberta reservoir deformation subsidence scale factor deformation perturbation subsurface deformation time series insar observation production history CSS operation Introduction Changes in the volume of oil and gas reservoirs as a result...

... Reservoir Characterization Upstream Oil & Gas volumetric strain Fluid Dynamics initial anisotropic stress state pore pressure enhanced recovery geomechanical dilation oil sand dilation bitumen effective stress water injection Alberta specimen injection pore pressure injection stress...

... pressure Alberta Caprock Integrity Chalaturnyk displacement operation friction angle horizontal stress rahmati anisotropy vertical stress enhanced recovery caprock clearwater shale anisotropic model failure pressure permeability Introduction Steam injection into the reservoir...