... Abstract Phase partitioning experiments conducted at Alberta Research Council (ARC) have shown that Athabasca UTF bitumen and propane mixture partitions into a solvent-rich light oil phase and a heavy-ends-rich oil phase. The partitioning may have beneficial impact on the performance...

... temperatures for heavy oil/bitumen recovery. Glass bead packs and Berea sandstone cores were used in the experiments to represent different types of pore structures, porosity and permeability. After saturating with heavy oil, the samples were exposed to the vapor of paraffinic solvents (propane and butane...

... and the operating strategy used to co-inject the solvents. The main objective of this study is to compare the simulation results of addition of potential solvents to steam in two different types of reservoirs, cold lake and Athabasca. Propane, Butane, Pentane, Hexanes and Heptanes with different proportions from 1...