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Investigation of SAGD Recovery Process in Complex Reservoir

, 2010
Alberta's oil sands deposits, with an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in place, account for approximately 40% of the world's bitumen resource.
Tho N. Tu, Ngoc T. Nguyen, Taemoon Chung, Wisup Bae, Cuong T. Dang, Huy X. Nguyen   +5 more
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Laboratory Assessment of Residual Oil Saturation Under Multi-Component Solvent SAGD Coinjection

Energies
Solvent-assisted steam-assisted gravity drainage (SA-SAGD) is an advanced hybrid oil recovery technique designed to enhance the extraction of heavy oil and bitumen. Unlike the conventional SAGD process, which relies solely on thermal energy from injected
Fernando Rengifo Barbosa, Amin Kordestany, Brij Maini   +2 more
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Numerical Simulation Study on Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Performance in a Heavy Oil Reservoir with a Bottom Water Zone

Energies, 2017
In the Pikes Peak oil field near Lloydminster, Canada, a significant amount of heavy oil reserves is located in reservoirs with a bottom water zone. The properties of the bottom water zone and the operation parameters significantly affect oil production ...
Jun Ni, Xiang Zhou, Qingwang Yuan, Xinqian Lu, Fanhua Zeng, Keliu Wu   +5 more
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Machine Learning Involvement in Reservoir Simulation by Optimizing Algorithms in SAGD and SA-SAGD Processes

, 2017
Machine learning, as a subset of Artificial Intelligence, has invaded many industries in recent years, thanks to the advancement of the computing power.
Zhang, Yu
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Performance Study of SAGD with Non-Condensing Gases in Oil Sands Reservoirs

, 2017
This thesis is focused on the study of non-condensing gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide and flue gas) injection to assist steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) in oil sands reservoirs.
Zhang, Yanpeng
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Influence of High-Power Heating Cable Structure on Heat Transfer Behavior in Heavy Oil Wells

Shiyou jixie
Steam assisted gravity drainage （SAGD） is one of the most effective technologies for developing heavy oil reservoirs， and downhole high-power electric heating technology is an important technical means to improve the energy efficiency of SAGD.
Zhang Bin, Dong Liangliang, Song Hongbing, Zhu Xiaohua, Zhou Chao, Feng Haiyang, Zhang Jingang   +6 more
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Research progress of quality improvement and efficiency enhancement of difficult-to-recover heavy oil reservoirs in context of carbon emission reduction

Youqi dizhi yu caishoulu
The heavy oil resources is relatively rich in China， and the development mode is mainly thermal recovery with high energy consumption and high emissions， which emits more than 1 600 × 104 tons of CO2 annually.
LI Binfei, RUAN Liwei, LI Zhaomin, WU Guanghuan, GAI Pingyuan, LUN Zengmin, SONG Hongzhi   +6 more
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Models of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) steam chamber expanding velocity in double horizontal wells and its application

Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2019
The development of steam chamber can be used to evaluate steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) performance. The velocity of steam chamber expanding is the key parameter for evaluating the development of steam chamber. Based on SAGD technology theory and
You ZHOU, Teng LU, Shouya WU, Lanxiang SHI, Xuan DU, Junling WANG   +5 more
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Numerical Simulation of SAGD with Vertical Slimholes

, 2011
Steam assisted gravity drainage is the primary in-situ recovery method for bitumen from the large Athabasca deposit in Alberta, Canada. SAGD field operations encounter a significant decrease in production performance when low permeability shale barriers ...
J.. Ivory, J.. Chang, C.. Tunney
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Geomechanical-Data Acquisition, Monitoring, and Applications in SAGD

, 2011
Summary Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has proved to be a commercially viable method to extract bitumen from oil-sands reservoirs in western Canada.
Robert Fryk, Mark Y.S. Chan, Fagang Gu
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