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- 1Geiger, Sebastian (Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University)
- 1Huang, Haibo (Innotech Alberta)
- 1Leung, Juliana (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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- 5SAGD
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- 13D Sequentially Coupled Reservoir Geomechanical Analysis
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An Experimental and Numerical Study on Complex Behaviour of Cement Paste under SAGD Operating Conditions
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During the exploration stage for oil sands mining or in situ thermal projects, many wells are drilled to recover core for resource assessment: these wells are referred to as stratigraphic wells. These stratigraphic wells are subsequently plugged with either thermal or non-thermal quality cement...
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Design, Deployment, Performance and Assessment of Downhole and Near Surface Monitoring Technology for Geological CO2 Storage
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Early carbon storage research and development efforts in Canada and elsewhere began with “value-added” projects such as CO2-enhanced oil recovery or CO2 enhanced coalbed methane, where the increase in production helps to offset the costs of CO2 and of its potential long-term storage. These...
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Evaluating the Behaviour of Rock Discontinuities in Direct Shear Under Constant Normal Load and Constant Normal Stiffness Boundary Conditions Using Additive Manufacturing Technology
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The inherent heterogeneity of natural rock and the variance in the surface roughness of discontinuities limit the repeatability of rock joint sampling and testing. One way to overcome this challenge is by using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques. AM, also referred to as 3D printing, has shown...
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Spring 2020
An effective Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process requires thermal and hydraulic communication to be established between the injection and the production wells during the start-up operation. To achieve inter-well communication, the conventional steam circulation start-up operations...
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Spring 2022
Time-lapse seismic reservoir monitoring has advanced quickly over the past decade to become a common technique for monitoring subsurface processes, especially for steam and CO2 injection. It has been widely used to determine and monitor changes occurring in a reservoir during hydrocarbon...
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Spring 2018
Due to the natural heterogeneity of rock there exists a large variance between samples in geomechanical engineering testing. Additionally, the number of samples available for testing that meet the screening requirements for grain size, mineralogy, bedding orientation and moisture content can...
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Spring 2016
The Joslyn steam release incident in 2006 has significantly influenced the approval process for steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects, which now require rigorous caprock integrity assessment to be conducted. In the past, most of the research efforts have been devoted to reservoir...
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Fall 2009
A common challenge during deposition of slurries is segregation as large particles settle through the matrix of fines and water. Whether segregation occurs or not depends on the grain size distribution of the solids, the void ratio or solids content and the rheological properties of the...
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Fall 2020
The Clearwater Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early Cretaceous (Albian) age that is a laterally continuous unit consisting largely of shale with a minor component of interbedded siltstone or sandstone. Throughout its geological history, the depositional environment of this formation was...
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Geomechanical Controls on Multiphase Fluid Flow in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
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Carbonate formations host 50% of the world’s oil and gas reserves and a major portion of the world’s groundwater resources. Additionally, 85% of carbonate reservoirs are naturally fractured. Porous rock matrix and fractures in carbonate formations can be greatly influenced by the effective...