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Record W2592709069 · doi:10.2118/183721-ms

Senlac, The Forgotten SAGD Project

2017· article· en· W2592709069 on OpenAlexaffabout
Eric Delamaide

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSteam-assisted gravity drainagePetroleum engineeringOil sandsOil fieldSteam injectionOil productionReservoir engineeringGeologyPetroleumArchaeologyAsphaltPaleontologyGeography

Abstract

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Abstract The Senlac SAGD (Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage) project is Saskatchewan, Canada, does not have the same name recognition as its much bigger brothers in the Alberta Oil Sands but it certainly deserves to be known better. Senlac was the first industrial SAGD project in Canada back in 1997 and since then it has been the site for other technological innovations such as the use of solvent in addition with steam to increase recovery and reduce the Steam Oil Ratio, as well as the testing of wedge wells – wells drilled between SAGD well pairs to benefit from the heat remaining in the reservoir. The reservoir in Senlac is the Dina-Cummings of Lower Cretaceous age and is much smaller than the McMurray formation which is the site of most of the large-scale oil sands project but the oil is only 5,000 cp thus it is mobile at reservoir temperature. This is a significant difference which allows well pairs to achieve excellent production and recovery even though reservoir thickness is only 8-16 m, well below the standard cut-off for SAGD. The presence of bottom water under parts of the field is an added challenge to the operations. The paper will present the field characteristics and production performances as well as the main technological developments such as the Solvent Added Process and the use of wedge wells. The paper will present a complete case study of a SAGD project in a heavy oil reservoir where oil is mobile. Most SAGD project so far have been conducted in bitumen but the paper will show the potential for this technology in thinner and smaller reservoirs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.113
Threshold uncertainty score0.224

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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