Summary

One of the complications at the stage with steam injection start into the SAGD injection well in the Terrigenous reservoir with extra-heavy oil (EHO) is its injectivity rate. Traditionally, preheating the well bottom-hole (BH) zone with steam and subsequent recovery of hot water or steam through the annulus is used to get adequate injectivity. As an alternative to steam preheating it is proposed to inject an aromatic solvent/reagent to ensure sufficient well injectivity. Calculations were performed with the real reservoir model. The mutual influence of wells in SAGD blocks under the conditions of solvent/reagent injection was studied for this.

Keywords:
reservoir characterization, steam-solvent combination, reservoir simulation, thermal method, bitumen, steam-assisted gravity drainage, oil production, viscosity, oil sand, sagd
Subjects:
Reservoir Characterization, Improved and Enhanced Recovery, Reservoir Simulation, Unconventional and Complex Reservoirs, Thermal methods, Steam-solvent combination methods, Oil sand, oil shale, bitumen
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