... & Gas SAGD operation operation SAGD performance Canada steam-assisted gravity drainage heterogeneity Hubbard point bar vertical direction geological model reservoir simulation SAGD control device injection well McMurray Formation FCD clean sand model Alberta heterogeneous reservoir...

... Abstract This paper examines the role played by geological history and by capillary pressure in the evolution of the unusual water saturations of the McMurray reservoir of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR). The McMurray formation water and bitumen have been a dynamic system evolving through...

... Abstract At the Nexen Long Lake in situ steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil sands recovery project, the bitumen-saturated reservoir is in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation. The main depositional environment in the reservoir unit is fluvial-estuarine meandering channels. Stacked...

.... In the present study, a simulation work to asses the feasibility of SAGD process for a typical section of the McMurray Formation in Alberta was conducted to asses the impact of the mentioned reservoir features. This study confirms that the presence of bottom water is harmful to the SAGD process; thicker bottom...

... to the heterogeneity of the point bar. In other words, pad-scale models are required for recovery process evaluation and design. SAGD enhanced recovery Reservoir Characterization McMurray Formation thermal method steam-assisted gravity drainage orientation well pair point bar deposit submodel 1 point...

.... The objective of this research is to construct a detailed three-dimensional point bar model to determine how its heterogeneity impacts SAGD performance. Here, the point bar model is based on the Lower Cretaceous Middle McMurray Formation in the Athabasca oil sands deposit in Alberta, Canada. Single SAGD...