The impact of steam generation on Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process
economics and environmental impacts have led to various modifications of SAGD including …

The warm vaporized solvent injection process has been proposed as a more
environmentally friendly alternative to steam-based technologies for bitumen recovery. The …

Reservoir containment of the injected fluids is essential in the solvent-aided thermal
recovery of bitumen from oil sands from an environmental perspective. Containment is …

Thermal‐recovery methods are commonly used for production of viscous crude oil. Injected
hot fluids react with reservoir rock, and some of these reactions might result in a change to …

Steam-based thermal recovery processes are energy-intensive and pose environmental
concerns due to their high greenhouse gas emissions. The application of solvents has …

This paper proposes a new criterion to estimate the impact of lean zones on thermal or
thermal-solvent processes, such as SAGD, SA-SAGD, or EBRT (Imperial Oil's" Enhanced …

We report highly fine-grid numerical simulations of solvent-aided bitumen leaching using
propane as a solvent. These simulations allowed us to observe the detailed physics of the …

This research investigates the phase behavior of multicomponent diluent and bitumen
mixtures, providing experimental data essential for bitumen recovery and pipeline …

Enhanced methods for recovering viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation as a
follow-up to thermal recovery processes. The methods include injecting a solvent flood …

Abstract Thermal-Solvent Assisted Gravity Drainage are recovery processes in which the
stimulation mechanism for bitumen viscosity reduction is by heating and/or dilution. Different …