Cold Production
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 Research
Council's 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.
Alberta Research Council. Alberta Research Council 2001 Annual Report. Edmonton: Alberta
Research Council, 2001 with permission from the Alberta
Research Council.
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