In-situ heavy and extra-heavy oil recovery: A review

K Guo, H Li, Z Yu - Fuel, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Due to the growing global energy demand and increasingly limited availability of
conventional or easy-to-produce crude oils, extensive attention is being paid to the …

Enhanced oil recovery: an update review

V Alvarado, E Manrique - Energies, 2010‏ - mdpi.com
With the decline in oil discoveries during the last decades it is believed that EOR
technologies will play a key role to meet the energy demand in years to come. This paper …

Challenges and future of chemical assisted heavy oil recovery processes

M Ahmadi, Z Chen - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The primary method for heavy oil and bitumen production across the world is still in-situ
steam-based technology. There are some drawbacks associated with steam-driven heavy …

EOR: current status and opportunities

E Manrique, C Thomas, R Ravikiran, M Izadi… - SPE Improved Oil …, 2010‏ - onepetro.org
A considerable portion of current world oil production comes from mature fields and the rate
of replacement of the produced reserves by new discoveries has been declining steadily …

Introduce dimethyl ether (DME) as a solvent for steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) co-injection: An effective and environmental application

M Chai, Z Chen, H Nourozieh, M Yang, B Chai - Fuel, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Conventional heavy oil and bitumen thermal recovery is currently facing increasing energy
demands and climate-related challenges. Dimethyl ether (DME) as a renewable and …

Solvent-based and solvent-assisted recovery processes: state of the art

B Bayestehparvin, SM Farouq Ali… - SPE Reservoir Evaluation …, 2019‏ - onepetro.org
Steam injection is a widely used oil-recovery method that has been commercially successful
in many types of heavy-oil reservoirs, including the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. Steam is …

ES-SAGD; past, present and future

B Orr - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition?, 2009‏ - onepetro.org
North America's long-term energy future depends heavily upon the Athabasca oilsands.
Only 15% of these deposits are at mineable depths (< 90m) and thus 85% of the oilsands …

A critical review of reservoir simulation applications in key thermal recovery processes: Lessons, opportunities, and challenges

S Yang, Z Nie, S Wu, Z Li, B Wang, W Wu… - Energy & Fuels, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
After a cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) process achieved accidental success in recovering
heavy oil resources in the 1960s, thermal recovery processes started to unlock the door of in …

An experimental study of multiphase behavior for n-butane/bitumen/water mixtures

J Gao, R Okuno, HA Li - SPE Canada Heavy Oil Conference, 2016‏ - onepetro.org
Steam-solvent coinjection has been studied and pilot-tested as a potential method to
improve steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) for bitumen recovery. Reliable design of …

Optimal application conditions for steam/solvent coinjection

M Keshavarz, R Okuno, T Babadagli - SPE Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2015‏ - onepetro.org
Laboratory and field data, although limited in number, have shown that steam/solvent
coinjection can lead to a higher oil-production rate, higher ultimate oil recovery, and lower …