E - Fixed Constructions – 21 – B
Patent
E - Fixed Constructions
21
B
E21B 43/243 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2553297
An in situ reservoir recovery process consisting of a horizontal injection well and a horizontal production well to extract bitumen or heavy oil from a reservoir. The process consists of a first phase operated at high-pressure in which steam, hydrocarbon solvent and non-condensable gases are injected into the reservoir and a second phase in which the injected fluids are transitioned to a high content of solvent and non- condensable gas and a reduced amount of steam to maintain a warm zone in the neighbourhood of the injection and production wells. The steam injection is sufficient to promote vapor transport of the solvent into the vapor depletion chamber and maintain the process at elevated temperatures in order to maintain low fluid viscosities in the production wellbore and to achieve preferred phase behaviour of the solvent hydrocarbon and the heavy oil or bitumen. The operating pressure of the process is controlled to prevent losses of the solvent hydrocarbon to the formation and to aid in solvent production to the production well in order for future re-cycling.
Bunio Gary
Gates Ian Donald
Paramount Resources Ltd.
Perley-Robertson Hill & Mcdougall Llp
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