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Innovative Energy Technologies Program project 06-094 : cyclic solvent test pilot

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Reports on a cyclic solvent process (CSP) experimental pilot project at Cold Lake in the Clearwater formation. CSP is a non-thermal, in-situ bitumen recovery process that utilizes injected solvent... More ≫

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Reports on a cyclic solvent process (CSP) experimental pilot project at Cold Lake in the Clearwater formation. CSP is a non-thermal, in-situ bitumen recovery process that utilizes injected solvent to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen, enabling its production from wells drilled for that purpose. The liquid-phase solvent is injected into a horizontal well cyclically and, because of the large mobility contrast between the solvent and the bitumen, it fingers into the bitumen. Following injection, the solvent-bitumen blend is produced from the same well. Cyclic injection and production operations continue for multiple cycles over several years until the bitumen produced no longer justifies the cost of the solvent or until the bitumen production rate is no longer economic.

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Innovative Energy Technologies Program project 03-047 : Cold Lake solvent assisted SAGD pilot

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Reports on a solvent-assisted steam assisted gravity drainage (SA -SAGD) experimental pilot scheme at Cold Lake in the Clearwater formation conducted by Imperial Oil. The experimental process... More ≫

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Reports on a solvent-assisted steam assisted gravity drainage (SA -SAGD) experimental pilot scheme at Cold Lake in the Clearwater formation conducted by Imperial Oil. The experimental process design for the pilot involves the addition of five to 20 per cent by volume of hydrocarbon solvent (diluent) along with the injected dry steam in a dual horizontal well SAGD configuration, which is intended to result in increased bitumen rates and decreased steam oil ratios relative to the conventional SAGD process.

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