...: Abel Hernandez-Guerrero. 12 02 2018 02 08 2018 Hydrates Natural gas technology Petroleum engineering Petroleum transport Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Multiphase flow Pipelines In the process of oilfield production, on the one hand, a large amount...

... properties and operational constraints gathered from the Suncor's Firebag project, which is representative of Athabasca oil sands reservoirs. The underlying reservoir simulation model is homogeneous and two-dimensional. Reservoir heterogeneities are modeled by superimposing sets of idealized shale barrier...

... resource Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Petroleum engineering Petroleum transport Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Pipelines Multiphase flow Gas reservoirs Natural gas hydrates are crystalline compounds that are formed by water and natural gas. The gas...

... properties are wholly identical between oil sands in experiments and the rock in the actual reservoir, then the experimental parameters can be calculated. The two horizontal wells, injection well and production well, are installed on the right and the left sides in the 3D model, respectively. The well...

... storage Heat energy transfer Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Fossil fuel Combustion Energy sources Environmental effects Spontaneous combustion of coal often occurs in the process of coal mining, transportation, and storage [ 1 ]. It is an inherent problem for coal mines...

... . Manuscript received May 24, 2017; final manuscript received January 9, 2018; published online February 27, 2018. Editor: Hameed Metghalchi. 24 05 2017 09 01 2018 Hydrates Petroleum engineering Petroleum transport Petroleum wells-drilling Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight...

... 2017 19 11 2017 Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Mature gas wells are usually faced with production challenges associated with liquid loading when gas reservoir depletes and gas flow tends not to lift liquid through...

...; final manuscript received September 17, 2017; published online October 17, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Daoyong (Tony) Yang. 08 10 2016 17 09 2017 Hydrates Natural gas technology Oil reservoirs Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Simulations to predict and evaluate...

... March 16, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Deepak Devegowda. 01 02 2016 12 02 2017 Hydrates Oil reservoirs Petroleum engineering Unconventional petroleum Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Gas reservoirs Natural gas is one of the main sources of energy and feedstock...

...Zhiwei Ma; Juliana Y. Leung; Stefan Zanon Production forecast of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) in heterogeneous reservoir is important for reservoir management and optimization of development strategies for oil sand operations. In this work, artificial intelligence (AI) approaches...

... Petroleum engineering Petroleum wells-drilling Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Production Construction Radial jet drilling, which uses high-pressure water jets, aims to drill numerous radial laterals in one layer or in multiple layers from the main wellbore [ 1 , 2...

... engineering Petroleum wells-drilling Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Production Gas reservoirs Construction Heavy oil reserves in Western Canada account for a major part of energy resources in Canada with the estimated average recovery of as low as 15% of the original oil...

... combustion Hydrates Fluidized bed Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Coal gasification is a process, in which the solid coal is converted to a gaseous mixture (synthesis gas/syngas) mainly composed of carbon monoxide and hydrogen inside a gasifier reactor under controlled amounts...

... September 16, 2015. Editor: Hameed Metghalchi. 15 06 2015 27 07 2015 Hydrates Oil reservoirs Petroleum engineering Unconventional petroleum Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas Gas reservoirs Unlike the light oil that is usually produced by natural depletion...

... Unconventional petroleum Coal bed methane Heavy oil Oil sands Tight gas CHOPS is a primary oil production process successfully used in unconsolidated heavy oil reservoirs in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Under CHOPS, typical recovery factors are between 5% and 15% with the average being under 10...

... for oil sands development since 2000 [ 3 ]. Heavy oil and oil sands reservoirs contain shale layers as flow barriers with almost zero permeability [ 4 ]. These shale layers have great impact on steam chamber expansion [ 5 ]. Limited geophysical data of unconsolidated oil sands give additional...