Breathing life into SAGD

Air injection as well as steam

fire breathingYouve heard of SAGD. Youve heard of fire flood. What if we mixed the two?

With AppIntel, you can find details of new heavy oil and bitumen projects from their regulatory applications. Imagine searching through application documents like Google. That's AppIntel.

One operator is adding air injection to his SAGD startup procedures.

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Advances in thermal heavy oil operations

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Applications show the actual UWI locations of the proposed operation. Using these locations, you can review injection and production history and draw your own conclusions about success or failure of the field trial.

Tags: Thermal, Heavy Oil, Leading indicators

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