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Oil Sands Reservoir Characterization in Athabasca, Canada

Akmal Sultan and Isao Takahashi, T. Torigoe

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Reservoir characterization was conducted by combining geological and geophysical methods in the oil sands area, Athabasca, Canada. For the production of bitumen from the reservoir 200 to 500 meters in depth, the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method (Steam Injection EOR) has been adopted as bitumen is not movable at the original temperature. It is essential to understanding the detailed reservoir distribution as bitumen is produced just from the vicinity of the producing wells by the SAGD method.

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Reservoir characterization was conducted by combining geological and geophysical methods in the oil sands area, Athabasca, Canada. For the production of bitumen from the reservoir 200 to 500 meters in depth, the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method (Steam Injection EOR) has been adopted as bitumen is not movable at the original temperature. It is essential to understanding the detailed reservoir distribution as bitumen is produced just from the vicinity of the producing wells by the SAGD method.

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Reservoir characterization was conducted by combining geological and geophysical methods in the oil sands area, Athabasca, Canada. For the production of bitumen from the reservoir 200 to 500 meters in depth, the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method (Steam Injection EOR) has been adopted as bitumen is not movable at the original temperature. It is essential to understanding the detailed reservoir distribution as bitumen is produced just from the vicinity of the producing wells by the SAGD method.

Key concepts: Oil sands, Steam-assisted gravity drainage, Asphalt, Petroleum engineering, Geology, Steam injection, Oil production, Reservoir modeling

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