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- 1Advanced Process Control
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- 1Ben Abdallah, Kais
- 1Ghannadi, Sahar
- 1Gul, Ali
- 1Raghu, Abhinandhan
- 1Rahim, Shahed
- 1Taubner, Spencer P
- 2Prasad, Vinay (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Dr. R. J. Chalaturnyk (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)/Dr. J. Leung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Dr. Rick Chalaturnyk
- 1Huang, Biao (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Li, Zukui (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Lipsett, Michael (Mechanical Engineering)
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Applications of Ensemble Kalman Filter for characterization and history matching of SAGD reservoirs
DownloadFall 2011
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the most robust thermal recovery process that has unlocked western Canadian heavy oil and bitumen reserves into economical recovery. The prime challenges in SAGD heavy oil developments and well planning in the Northern Alberta formations are:...
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Fall 2015
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has become the most popular in situ method for recovering bitumen in Alberta, but it remains an operationally challenging process. A particular challenge is the maintenance of a liquid pool, or steam trap, around the production well to prevent the influx of...
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Real-Time Feedback Control of the SAGD Process using Model Predictive Control to Improve Recovery: A Simulation Study
DownloadSpring 2015
Scope of the Work: For over a decade, the oil industry has been moving to “smart fields”, which deploy wells with remotely operated valves and permanently installed downhole sensors for real-time pressure and temperature measurements. Real-time data from these “intelligent wells” provide key...
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Reservoir Geological Uncertainty Reduction and Its Applications in Reservoir Development Optimization
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Three different studies related to geological uncertainty reduction in reservoir applications are performed in this thesis. The first study proposes an optimal realization reduction framework for quantifying geological uncertainty. The second study applies the optimal realization reduction...
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RESERVOIR HISTORY MATCHING USING CONSTRAINED ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER AND PARTICLE FILTER METHODS
DownloadSpring 2015
The high heterogeneity of petroleum reservoirs, represented by their spatially varying rock properties (porosity and permeability), greatly dictates the quantity of recoverable oil. In this work, the estimation of these rock properties, which is crucial for the future performance prediction of a...
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Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD):Influence of Geomechanical Processes on Absolute Permeability
DownloadFall 2013
Alberta is recognized by its vast oil sands reserves. The applications of established thermal processes, such as SAGD, are commonly required to achieve economic hydrocarbon recovery. Steam injection causes pore pressure and temperature changes that influence the reservoir geomechanical properties...
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Fall 2016
Inductive methods such as Electromagnetic Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (EM-SAGD) have been identified as a technically and economically feasible recovery method for shallow oil sands reservoirs with overburdens of more than 30 meters (Koolman et al., 2008). However, in EM-SAGD projects, the...