Research Status of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Technology

Abstract:

The exploitation of heavy oil and bitumen attracts more and more attention. Compared with normal light oil, heavy oil is of characteristics as high viscosity, low mobility and difficult for exploitation as a result of higher requirement of mining. The developing mechanism and process of SAGD is introduced in this paper. Some front technologies on the basis of SAGD are described about their application prospect as well. It is also summarized about SAGD development together with implementation in the field through detailed investigation of SAGD technology from home and abroad. Meanwhile, the main problems of SAGD facing to researchers are also summarized as well as the presentation of the corresponding improvement measures.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 734-737)
• Pages: 1246-1252
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.734-737.1246
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Hao Liu, Xiu Luan Li
• Keywords: Heavy Oil, Research Status, SAGD, Thermal Recovery

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