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- W4319659539 abstract "Coinjection of steam and condensate has been studied for improving the energy efficiency of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) as solvent-assisted SAGD or SA-SAGD. However, it is not well understood how tortuous hydraulic paths under heterogeneous permeability can influence the compositional and thermal flow characteristics in SA-SAGD. We addressed this question by performing an experiment of the coinjection of steam and condensate for bitumen recovery. This paper discusses the experimental results and gives our mechanistic analysis of how the tortuous hydraulic paths affected the thermal and compositional flow and the properties of the produced bitumen in the experiment. The physical model was a cylindrical pressure vessel with a diameter of 0.425 m and a length of 1.2 m, which was filled with unconsolidated sands. Two shale plates were horizontally installed above the well pair at different elevations so that they could represent permeability barriers to cause tortuous flow paths during the SA-SAGD experiment. The porosity and permeability of the sandpack was 0.34 and 5.6 D, respectively. Initially, the oil and water saturations were 95% and 5%, respectively. After preheating for 1 day, a mixture of 98.2 mol% steam and 2.8 mol% condensate was injected at 3500 kPa for 4 days (35 cm3/min of steam, cold water equivalent). The injection and production histories along with the real-time temperature distribution were recorded during the experiment. Produced oil samples were frequently taken and analyzed for density and asphaltene content. After the experiment, the sandpack was excavated and sampled from different locations to analyze the saturation and asphaltene content of the remaining oil. The experimental results in this paper were compared with the previous SAGD and SA-SAGD experiments that used the same experimental set up with a homogeneous sandpack. Results showed that, in comparison to the homogeneous SAGD case, SA-SAGD was able to lower the cumulative steam-oil ratio (SOR) by a factor of two to three even in the presence of shale plates. Analysis of the temperature profiles indicated that the steam chamber vertically expanded from the lower part to the upper part through tortuous paths at lower temperatures. An emerging steam chamber above the shale plates occurred by convective heat from the injection well through lower-temperature flow paths between shale plates, involving light to intermediate solvent components that enabled the steam chamber to expand away from the injection well. This highlights the important role of volatile solvent components in the growth of a steam chamber in SA-SAGD under heterogeneity. The produced bitumen density in this research was closer to the original bitumen than in the homogeneous SA-SAGD case because the bitumen dilution and the solvent retention increased by the tortuous flow regime resulted in efficient drainage of oil at lower temperature." @default.
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- W4319659539 title "The impact of permeability barriers on steam-solvent coinjection – A mechanistic study using a physical model" @default.
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