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... Abstract When non condensable gases (NCGs) are co-injected with steam in SAGD, the steam oil ratio is reduced without negative effects in the oil production rates. But most simulation studies show the opposite effect. In this work, a critical literature review is conducted to understand...

... ), equation 30 reduces to the equation developed by Butler et al. (1981 ) for SAGD process ( T ref = T o ): Equation 39 q o i l = k e   l . g . s i n ( θ ) . α T m . U . ( μ l Δ ρ l − g ) T o Total Oil Production Rate...

... history match History Match oil rate sap pilot shale barrier oil production rate society of petroleum engineers injection Introduction SAGD, an in-situ recovery technology, has come of age and is emerging as the technology of choice in exploitation of Canadian oil sands. In SAGD, steam...

... and heat loss rate decreases or in a conservative design remains constant. The objectives are to predict; oil production rate, steam injection rate, thermal efficiency, steam chamber velocity, unsteady temperature profile, heat distribution, and Cumulative Steam-Oil Ratio (CSOR). In this approach, heat...

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... the primary SAGD injection well by 40-60%. This is followed by a steady increase in oil production rate aided by the viscosity reduction due to propane solubility. A secondary oil production rate peak, comparable to the original peak observed with steam, is achieved. A variation of this process was also...

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... corresponding to the three production stages of SESF, and they are semi-analytically solved successively. The proposed model is validated by comparing calculated oil production rate with the results of a numerical simulation method. The results indicate that the enhancement of oil production rate mainly...

... oil displacement and Darcy's oil rate using a mixture viscosity model as a function of temperature and solvent concentration ahead of front which satisfy the equilibrium in the system. The objectives of this work are to predict: vapour-steam chamber growth, oil production rate, solvent production...

... increases oil production rates. Steam to oil ratio (SOR), a measure of process energy efficiency, is reduced. The proposed process outperforms classical SAGD with conventional completion scheme in all heterogeneous simulations as well, both in terms of oil production rate and SOR. Simulations suggest...

... implications for process control and risk/uncertainty management of reservoir operations. Modeling & Simulation Upstream Oil & Gas reservoir simulator production rate flow in porous media Fluid Dynamics navier-stoke equation oil production rate thermal method SAGD recovery process...

.... Therefore, analytical and semi-analytical models are desirable tools for quick field-wide performance forecast. The first theoretical study of SAGD was conducted by Butler et al. (1981) . An elegant analytical model was developed to estimate the oil production rate of a laterally spreading steam chamber...

... (Constant Volumetric Displacement) model, we postulate that the front movement is such that the steam chamber growth is constant, in other words, the oil production rate is constant over time. In this work, it is shown that to obtain a constant oil production rate from a mass balance, the injected heat has...

... Abstract CHOPS (Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand) is a primary production recovery method used in the Western Canadian Lloydminster heavy oil region which contains about 3 billion m 3 of heavy oil. It increases heavy oil production rates by creating high permeability channels...

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... its transfer across phases. Although, it is still debated that non-condensable gas accumulates at the steam front reducing heat transfer into the oil phase and lowering oil production rate, some field production data show contrary results. That is, the co-injection of non-condensable gas with steam...

... oleic phase compositional simulator k-value approach eos equation solubility oil production rate injection permeability production rate thermal process hybrid process Introduction Thermal processes are considered as tertiary recovery methods and being used widely in Canada for in-situ...

... in Table 1 . However, these processes may not be successfully applied in the oil fields because of the slow solvent diffusion in the heavy oil, which results in a low and uneconomical oil production rate ( Das and Butler, 1998 ). Table 1 Cyclic solvent injection (CSI) studies in the literature...

..., cumulative SOR, Oil Recovery Factor, and Oil Production Rate) are used to build the corresponding Radial Basis Function (RBF) Network proxy model which represents production performance as objective functions of the operational parameters and time. The nodal Radial Functions of the Network are defined...