EOR potential in the post steam injection era: Current and future trends

X Dong, H Liu, K Wu, Z Chen - SPE Improved Oil Recovery …, 2018 - onepetro.org
The in-situ steam based technology is still the main exploitation method for bitumen and
heavy oil resources all over the world. But most of the steam-based processes (eg, cyclic …

Toward mechanistic understanding of Fast SAGD process in naturally fractured heavy oil reservoirs: Application of response surface methodology and genetic …

K Mohammadi, F Ameli - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal recovery is one of the most common enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques in
heavy oil reservoirs. Fast-SAGD method is a novel SAGD approach in which offset wells are …

Effects of lean zones on steam-assisted gravity drainage performance

J Xu, Z Chen, X Dong, W Zhou - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
A thorough understanding of the effects of lean zones and the improvement of steam-
assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations with such heterogeneities is critically important …

A statistical upscaling workflow for warm solvent injection processes for heterogeneous heavy oil reservoirs

E Andriianova, JY Leung - Natural Resources Research, 2021 - Springer
Hybrid solvent-and thermal-based methods offer an important potential for reducing the
environmental impact and enhancing recoveries in heavy oil production processes. Time …

A comprehensive model for simulating supercritical water flow in a vertical heavy oil well with parallel double tubes

B Nie - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
At present, there is no research on parallel double pipe injection of supercritical water. The
research on the process of SAGD supercritical water injection is insufficient. This paper first …

Numerical thermal simulation and optimization of hybrid CSS/SAGD process in Long Lake with lean zones

J Xu, Z Chen, Y Yu, J Cao - SPE Canada Heavy Oil Conference, 2014 - onepetro.org
Cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) are successful
commercial methods for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) used in Canada. Although SAGD …

Sensitivity analysis of injection parameters in steam assisted gravity drainage under geological uncertainty

L Monteiro, C Baptista-Pereira, L Azevedo - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a challenging enhanced oil recovery technique
that requires proper parameterization in terms of well geometry and steam injection …

Statistical upscaling workflow for warm solvent injection processes–Longitudinal and transverse dispersivity and thermal conductivity

E Andriianova, JY Leung - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurately simulating, upscaling, and optimizing the warm solvent injection process (WSI) is
challenging due to its complex heat and mass transfer mechanisms. This manuscript …

A fishtail well design for cyclic steam injection—A case study from Yarega heavy oil field in Russia

GA Abzaletdinov, T Ajayi, YA Elnoamany… - Energy Science & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Yarega heavy oil field (YHOF) is a naturally fractured heavy oil field where only recently
steam‐assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology has been introduced. SAGD employed …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of lean zones on SAGD performance

J Xu - 2015 - prism.ucalgary.ca
Abstract In Canada, both Nexen's Long Lake and Suncor's Firebag steam-assisted gravity
drainage (SAGD) Projects reported existence of intersecting lean zones that behave as thief …