Effect of drainage height and permeability on SAGD performance

M Heidari, M Pooladi-Darvish, J Azaiez… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2009 - Elsevier
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is now considered a commercially successful
technique for the recovery of heavy oil and bitumen in Canada. However, our theoretical …

Numerical simulation of the steam-assisted gravity drainage process (SAGD)

L Chow, RM Butler - Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 1996 - onepetro.org
Physical and numerical models can be employed together to better understand the SAGD
process. When there are inadequate measured physical properties as input data, and …

Numerical and experimental modelling of the steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process

K Sasaki, S Akibayashi, N Yazawa, Q Doan… - PETSOC Annual …, 1999 - onepetro.org
The experimental studies carried out to evaluate oil recovery processes let optimum
strategies be determined and necessary actions be taken before initiating a new project …

[HTML][HTML] Study of reservoir properties and operational parameters influencing in the steam assisted gravity drainage process in heavy oil reservoirs by numerical …

F Dianatnasab, M Nikookar, S Hosseini, M Sabeti - Petroleum, 2016 - Elsevier
This study was originally aimed at suggesting a two-dimensional program for the Steam
Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process based on the correlations proposed by Heidari …

Analysis of the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage SAGD Process Using Experimental/Numerical Tools

TN Nasr, H Golbeck, S Lorimer - SPE/CIM International Conference on …, 1996 - onepetro.org
There has been a keen interest during the last decade in the application of the steam
assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process as a recovery strategy for oil sands and heavy oil …

A numerical analysis of the single-well steam assisted gravity drainage process (SW-SAGD)

KT Elliot, AR Kovscek - Petroleum Science and Technology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an effective method to produce heavy oil and
bitumen which are important energy resources. In a typical SAGD approach, steam is …

Modification of butler's unsteady-state SAGD theory to include the vertical growth of steam chamber

M Keshavarz, TG Harding, ZJ Chen - SPE Canada Heavy Oil …, 2016 - onepetro.org
Abstract Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is a widely used thermal recovery
technique in western Canada. Use of numerical simulators, although successful in history …

Improving the sagd performance by introducing a new well configuration

M Mojarab, TG Harding, BB Maini - Journal of Canadian Petroleum …, 2011 - onepetro.org
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a commercially successful recovery process that
produces heavy oils and bitumen. The method ensures both a stable displacement front of …

Understanding the convection heat-transfer mechanism in the steam-assisted-gravity-drainage process

M Irani, I Gates - SPE Journal, 2013 - onepetro.org
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the preferred method to extract bitumen from
Athabasca oil-sand reservoirs in western Canada. In SAGD, steam, injected outward from a …

Effect of initial water saturation on the thermal efficiency of the steam-assisted gravity-drainage process

SJP Oskouei, BB Maini, RG Moore… - Journal of Canadian …, 2012 - onepetro.org
The commercial viability of the steam-assisted gravity-drainage (SAGD) process is affected
negatively by several undesirable reservoir features, such as pronounced heterogeneity …