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Effects of Lean Zones on Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Performance
Energies, 2017 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 for reducing the disadvantages of lean zones.
Jinze Xu +3 more
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Infilled Vertical Well LASER-Assisted SAGD
Geofluids, 2022 In the SAGD process with dual horizontal wells in heterogeneous reservoirs, the injection pressure of steam huff-n-puff by infilled interwell vertical wells is too high, and the heat communication between SAGD wellpairs and infilled wells is too long ...
Ding Chao +3 more
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 101, Issue 11, Page 6135-6150, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The required steam for steam‐assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil sands operations is generated using a once‐through steam generator (OTSG) that is fed with relatively poor quality process water. Industries have reported possible solid particle erosion‐related failure in the OTSG boiler tubes because of the transport of precipitated dense ...
Oluwaseun Ezekiel Adedeji +3 more
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 101, Issue 10, Page 6003-6016, October 2023., 2023 Drawbacks in phase change models in simulating flashing of steam with a subsaturation downstream boundary condition. Abstract The development of phase change models applicable to a wide range of temperatures, pressures, and mass flow rates is primarily limited by the metastable or partially stable behaviour of the fluid. Due to this, the fluid does not
Stanley John, Carlos F. Lange
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Energy Exploration & Exploitation, 2021 Flue gas assisted steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a frontier technology to enhance oil recovery for heavy oil reservoirs. The carbon dioxide generated from the thermal recovery of heavy oil can be utilized and consumed to mitigate climate ...
Lei Tao +5 more
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Energies, 2017 Solvent–steam mixture is a key factor in controlling the economic efficiency of the solvent-aided thermal injection process for producing bitumen in a highly viscous oil sands reservoir.
Baehyun Min +2 more
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Strategies of SAGD Start-Up by Downhole Electrical Heating
Energies, 2022 The SAGD start-up process normally circulates steam in both the injector and producer, which consumes a large amount of steam, requires the high cost of high-temperature-produced liquid treatment, and unavoidably results in preferential communication in ...
Yongbin Wu +3 more
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Geofluids, 2021 With further progress of Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology, a growing number of oil sands or heavy oil reservoirs were put into production in an efficient way.
Yang Yu +7 more
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Lithosphere, 2021 Loss of the vast majority of heat and steam is an unavoidable problem encountered during conventional steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) in extraheavy oil reservoirs.
Zhenhua Xu +6 more
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Impact of Shale Barriers on SAGD and ES-SAGD Performance
, 2022 Shales are the common type of heterogeneity present in the oil sand reservoirs. Shale barriers usually have very low permeability leads to obstruction for fluid flow inside the reservoirs towards the wellbore. SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage) and ES-SAGD (expanding solvent assisted gravity drainage) rely heavily on gravity drainage, and thus the ...
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