NCG - End of life support for SAGD

bitumen decreases while SOR climbsSteam-oil-ratio (SOR) skyrockets during the wind down-phase of a SAGD scheme. This is partly due to the reduced bitumen production. Because of the increased SOR, cost per barrel of bitumen produced soars during this wind-down phase.

What if we could use non-condensable gas injection during the wind down phase to increase recovery and reduce the cost of generating steam. That's the proposal of this operator. He wants to field test gas injection during wind down to see if costs can be reduced without sacrificing recovery. We found this information using AppIntel..

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?subject=Help me get up to speed on NCG&body=Help me get up to speed on NCG injection in SAGD. I'm interested in your survey of the variety of uses.%0D%0A%0D%0AMy Name:__________ %0D%0AMy Phone Number:__________ %0D%0A%0D%0A(Or call Proven Sales at 403-803-2500.)">Contact Proven for a survey of NCG in a variety of uses.

Non-condensable gas injection is being tried by more and more operators for a variety of reasons. Operators are using it during blowdown. They are using NCG in conjunction with infill wells. In fact many different uses for NCG have been proposed since 2009.

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Tags: Gas Injection, Thermal, Cut costs, Heavy Oil

  11 Jul 2016



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