News for Heavy Oil
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Methane or Propane?
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Partially upgrade bitumen in-situ
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Replacing steam with methane
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Each cost less than half a million
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Disposing into a producing formation
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How does it affect corrosion?
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Infographic
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Quotes five SPE papers
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Air injection as well as steam
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Improve the value of crude before it leaves your lease
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How do you avoid fire flood failures?
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The best additive in the SAG-Dverse
New Sulphur from bitumen recovery process
No it's not a ship in outer space
By depressurizing the underlying aquifer
Post-CHOPS: Hot water and N2 injection
Save 50% of your steam and improve recovery
Smaller and smaller offset
Proving electric conduction heating once and for all
Adding solvent to startups
Asking for flexibility in recovery technology
Some have been waiting over 6 years for approval
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Straying from the zero effluent plant ideal
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This is Huge
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Horizontal or vertical. Which is the best injector?
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For SAGD in tighter sands and shale breaks
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CSS diluent injection
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See how other operators are improving pad start-up