Cold
Production Recovery
ARC's heavy oil research team has made breakthrough advances in analyzing the cold production
recovery process. Cold production is a common method used by oil companies to
improve heavy oil recovery rates by producing sand aggressively along with the
oil.
The team made major advances in determining, describing and modeling the
key mechanisms controlling the cold production process. These have been
incorporated into guidelines and field-scale models now used by a number of
major companies for planning and improving well operation and reservoir
exploitation strategies.
ARC's advances
came about through a unique long-running consortium research program: the AERI/ARC
Core Industry (AACI) Research Program, operated by ARC and funded jointly by the
Alberta consortium serves the longer term research needs of heavy oil and oilsands industry by developing and evaluating in-situ recovery technologies.
Alberta Research Council. Alberta Research Council 2000 Annual Report. Edmonton: Alberta
Research Council, 2000 with permission from the Alberta
Research Council.
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