2014•Unpublished venueRequires access

InSAR monitoring of surface deformation induced by steam injection in the Athabasca oil sands, Canada

V. Singhroy, J. Li, Sergey Samsonov, Luyi Shen, Jillian Pearse

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Our RADARSAT 2 InSAR monitoring of four SAGD oil sands sites show high correlation of surface deformation and steam injection. Surface heave is about 2 cm/year in the SAGD sites investigated and is not influenced by the overburden thickness above the productive McMurray Formation.

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Key concepts: Oil sands, Overburden, Steam injection, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Geology, Deformation (meteorology), Environmental science, Petroleum engineering