... provides various types of ICD behavior, screening criteria, design practices, operation principle and application evaluation in SAGD process. These findings are very useful for ICD design and enhancing both oil recovery and thermal efficiency in heavy oil or bitumen production. completion monitoring...

... to select the most appropriate one in the future. bitumen upstream oil & gas heat resource thermal method sagd reduce carbon footprint oil sand complex reservoir oilfield boiler enhanced recovery steam-assisted gravity drainage flue gas kenkyak oilfield produced fluid residual heat...

... prediction threshold upstream oil & gas physical property viscosity region geochemical technique geochemical characterization drilling data acquisition bitumen viscosity prediction viscosity api gravity bernard ratio curve high viscosity region well path shallow resistivity mud gas...

..., while heat conduction in the formation is in transient state. The solubility of the solvent into the water is ignored. The bitumen is immobile in the unwarmed region in the oil sands. Gravity is the only driving force of the warmed bitumen, and the effect of pressure force is ignored...

... upgrading complex reservoir reactor hydrocarbon enhanced recovery feedstock isut process oil sand Upstream Oil & Gas viscosity bitumen carbonate core nano-catalytic in-situ upgrading process displacement cylinder carbonate reservoir reaction hydrogen conversion injection Oil Recovery...

... and a higher pseudo-bubble point. In addition, at the same pressure drawdown rate, the foamy oil flow at a later stage is expected to happen more quickly than at an earlier stage. enhanced recovery complex reservoir oil sand flow in porous media Upstream Oil & Gas Fluid Dynamics bitumen cold...

... selection development strategy assessment workflow SAGD Simulation conceptualization phase EOR process screening criteria availability Surface FacIlity bitumen ranking eor deployment strategy eor strategy complex reservoir natural gas EOR Operation society of petroleum engineers oil sand...

... Abstract Exponential and polynomial viscosity correlations have been widely applied to model crude viscosities with temperature. These simple correlations are difficult to be applied to predict the viscosity of different solvent-diluted bitumen systems over a wide range of solvent composition...

... saturation of up to 50%. The results of this work show significant potentials for immiscible CO2 and CO2-emulsion injection as an effective enhanced heavy oil recovery technique. bitumen displacement chemical flooding methods Upstream Oil & Gas oil sand complex reservoir experiment viscosity...

... in the reservoir. water management waterflooding enhanced recovery Upstream Oil & Gas concentration viscosity oil sand complex reservoir Brine composition viscosity reduction crude oil Oil Viscosity heavy oil seawater interaction bitumen experiment crude oil viscosity mg 2 different...

... in a detailed asphaltene matrix risk profile for this reservoir. wax remediation paraffin remediation hydrate remediation scale remediation production chemistry upstream oil & gas bitumen precipitation yonebayashi hydrate inhibition asphaltene inhibition bitumen distribution fluid sample...

... Most of the previous simulation efforts during the 1980s, concentrated on field scale modelling; The pioneering work of Grabowski et al. (1979) simulated Cold Lake Oil Sands bitumen. They used six components: two oil pseudocomponents, heavy oil, light oil, plus inert gas, oxygen, water and coke...

... with 40 well-pairs and the MacKay River project mentioned earlier. The first steam injection in the Firebag project commenced in September 2003 and the first oil production was in January 2004 [ 16 ]. The average daily bitumen production rate is 48,400 bbl/day with the cSOR of 3.14 m 3 /m 3...

... these processes is limited. To find out the contribution of convective dispersion in enhanced production rates in VAPEX, three experiment sets were conducted for a system of propane and Athabasca bitumen. In the first set, molecular diffusion coefficient of propane in Athabasca bitumen was determined through...

... viscosity upstream oil & gas reservoir steam chamber spe 130807 steam-solvent combination simulation study production rate solvent coinjection thermal method mole fraction fluid interface sagd production period phase behavior subproduction stage steam-assisted gravity drainage bitumen...

... increase in oil production rates and producible reserves, even though wells may have experienced early water breakthroughs. Reservoir Characterization enhanced recovery production control oil sand bitumen Upstream Oil & Gas complex reservoir Reservoir Surveillance structural geology...

... Abstract The volume of heavy oil and bitumen in Alberta, Canada is estimated to be about 1.7 trillion barrels. The majority of the produced heavy oil and bitumen in Alberta is converted in surface upgraders to synthetic crude oil, a crude oil with API gravity typically between 31 and 33°API...

... Abstract Vapor extraction (VAPEX) process is solvent analogue of SAGD process in which low molecular weight solvent are used to reduce the viscosity of heavy oil and bitumen. This process may be a good candidate to be applied in problematic reservoirs in which thermal methods are not efficient...

... 22.3 °API), extra heavy oil (density lower than 10° API) and bitumen make up about 70% of the world's total oil resources of 9 to 13 trillion bbl [ Ref. 1 ]. Abstract The Zatchi field, located in the Lower Congo Basin offshore, is a multi-layer reservoir of Cenomanian/Albian age operated by Eni...

... scenario waterflooding pvt measurement structural geology complex reservoir gas injection method fluid dynamics production logging steam-assisted gravity drainage flow in porous media reservoir surveillance history matching reservoir simulation sagd bitumen production control oil sand...