Injection Well - Producer Well Combinations in THAI 'Toe-to-Heel Air Injection'

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 159-173

  Xia, T X ^a   Greaves, M ^a   Turta, A T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air injection; Downhole upgrading; Heavy oil recovery; Horizontal wells; In Situ combustion; Short distance oil placement; THAI; Well combinations

Indexed keywords

AIR; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT LOSSES; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; IGNITION; IN SITU COMBUSTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SAND; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

OIL WELL COMBINATIONS; SHORT-DISTANCE OIL PLACEMENT; TOE-TO-HEEL AIR INJECTION (THAI);

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 1642435452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/75137-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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