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Record W1963825771 · doi:10.2118/2002-163

Fast SAGD and Geomechanical Mechanisms

2002· article· en· W1963825771 on OpenAlex
Jie Gong, M. Polikar, Richard J. Chalaturnyk

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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian International Petroleum Conference · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDrilling and Well Engineering
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPetroleum engineeringGeologyComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract This paper outlines a new variation of the SAGD process, called Fast SAGD. Numerical simulation of the Fast SAGD process using a thermal reservoir simulation software package is performed in order to investigate the operating strategy. A geomechanical model is used to analyze the impact of geomechanics on the recovery process. It is concluded from this study that, besides gravity, steam drive, shear failure, and pore volume deformation are the additional mechanisms in this recovery process. Clearly, Fast SAGD is a process with high productivity and low cumulative steam-oil ratio. Introduction Cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) was first discovered in Western Venezuela in 1959 and developed in the field. In Alberta, injection of any fluid into the oil sands is problematic because of the very low mobility of the in situ bitumen. As a result, the injection pressure is increased to a level to part the formation. In Cold Lake1, an injection pressure of 12 MPa is reached and steam is introduced into the formation at high rates of about 200 m3/day. However, the major problem with CSS as it is practiced in Alberta is that typically 15 to 20% of the bitumen is recovered from the resource, even in a pattern comprised of closely spaced vertical wells. For a reservoir with gas cap or bottom water, the parting pressure would probably leak more heat into the over/under burden by heat convection and decrease heat efficiency. The Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process was developed in the 1980s, and currently several pilot projects are operated in Alberta. In this process, steam is injected continuously into a horizontal well, located parallel to, and closely above, a horizontal production well at the base of the reservoir. Heated oil drains by gravity and steam fills the vacated pore volume. It has been reported that SAGD is an attractive recovery process, which results in low steam-oil ratios (SOR). However, a challenge for the SAGD is to try to promote the lateral and downward expansion of the steam chamber2. A new process, called Fast SAGD, which combines SAGD and CSS, was recently3,4 proposed. Reservoir simulation of the process has shown that Fast SAGD is a process with relatively high productivity and low operating pressure. FAST SAGD PROCESS Fast SAGD is a combination of both SAGD and CSS, as can be seen in Figure 1. After the SAGD steam chamber is developed, steam is injected into a single horizontal well, called offset well, 50 m away from the SAGD well pair, in a cyclic mode in order to help propagate the steam chamber expansion down the reservoir. The first cycle lasts one year, nine months of steam injection followed by three months of production. In the second cycle, after six months of steam injection, the offset well is converted to a production well for the remainder of time. Meanwhile, extra steam is injected into the SAGD injector to maintain and expand the combined steam chamber that is generated by the offset well. Two-week soak is considered in the cyclic steaming of the offset well.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.679
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.176
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
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