To recover heavy oil and bitumen from the highly unconsolidated reservoirs of the Western
Canada oilsands fields using the horizontal well method, and in particular the thermal in situ …

Stand-alone sand screen (SAS) is proven to be effective for sand control in unconsolidated
sands in thermal wells. The characteristic design parameter to specify SAS is the aperture …

The primary goal of screen design for steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations is
to prevent the entrance of the poorly or unconsolidated sand into the production flow stream …

With continuing decline of conventional crude oil reserves, there is higher demand for
developing and producing heavy oil and bitumen resources. In Alberta, Canada, there are …

Designing and selecting the proper sand control mechanism for horizontal wells in
unconsolidated heavy-oil reservoirs tend to be underlooked in some cases. Standalone …

In studies of the transportation and deposition of solid particles within a flow, the shape of
particles has been a challenging factor to include in mathematical models. In many studies …

Slotted liners are the most common sand control completion used for SAGD exploitation.
With the trend to exploit high heterogeneity reservoirs using SAGD technology further …

Motivated by the use of slotted liners in the production of bitumen steam assisted gravity
drainage, this paper aims at quantifying the convergence phenomenon experienced by the …

In steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), bitumen flows through slots whose width is
selected based on the particle size of the formation sand to prevent sand production. These …

The primary aim of the research project was to develop an efficient technology to control
excessive water production in gas wells. As a novelty, water sensitive petroleum-based …