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Heavyoilinfo.com talked to Eddy Isaacs about the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI).
Expert Viewpoint - heavy oil production technologies
Heavyoilinfo.com talked to Maurice Dusseault about heavy oil production technologies and the potential benefits of applying multiple technologies in a planned sequence.
Expert Viewpoint - Center for Energy Economics
Heavyoilinfo.com spoke to Dr. Mariano Gurfinkel to find out what factors can accelerate or delay the development of frontier energy resources.
Expert Viewpoint—Premium sand screens
Heavyoilinfo.com spoke to Thane Russell of Absolute Energy Solutions about some of his company’s solutions to sand control issues relating to heavy oil.
Expert Viewpoint—Sand screens
An overview of heavy oil sand control issues and options by Ezio Toffanin.
Expert Viewpoint - Well Cementing
Schlumberger's Gunnar DeBruijn reviews the challenges and solutions for achieving good zonal isolation in thermal wells.
Expert Viewpoint - The importance of geomechanics
Robert Marsden is part of a Schlumberger team developing reservoir-centric geomechanics services that address issues such as reservoir engineering, gas storage, CO2 disposal, and life-of-field reservoir management applications. He is based at the Schlumberger Reservoir Geomechanics Centre of Excellence in Bracknell, near London, where geomechanics modeling expertise is being integrated into the Schlumberger portfolio to advance the value of the mechanical earth model, under the direction of V.I.P.S. founder Nick Koutsabeloulis.
Expert viewpoint - Understanding in situ combustion
HeavyOilinfo.com spoke to Paul Naccache and Aubrey O’Callaghan, experts in the simulation and design of in situ combustion (ISC) projects worldwide.
Artificial lift systems for cold production
Allan Peats continues his series of Expert Viewpoint articles with a focus on artificial lift systems in cold heavy oil production.
Expert Viewpoint - Interpreting heavy oil logs
In this, the second of a two-part interview, Frank Shray, Petrophysics Advisor, and petrophysics domain champion for Schlumberger wireline, explains the value to the customer of the measurements that wireline logging produces and how data integration provides the key to accurate interpretation.
Expert Viewpoint - Logging in heavy oil
Frank Shray, a Petrophysics Advisor, has been with Schlumberger for over 26 years. His experience in this discipline spans every wireline and logging while drilling measurement type and environment as well as seismic, open- and cased-hole logging. Shray is currently the petrophysicist domain champion for the company’s wireline activity. In this, the first of a two-part interview, Shray, explains wireline tools, how they work and, what you can expect from Schlumberger in terms of “tool synergy”.
Expert Viewpoint - Fiber optics in heavy oil
Fiber-optic technology is being used today in heavy oil reservoirs. George Brown, interpretation development manager for Sensa* fiber-optic monitoring systems, discusses how they are currently being used to measure temperature in wells and what benefits may apply to heavy oil operations.
Expert Viewpoint - CO2 injection and applicability to heavy oil
Some people believe that CO2 injection—or as it is often described, “CO2 flooding”—can be used to enhance oil recovery from sub-surface heavy oil reservoirs. In a wide-ranging interview, Schlumberger’s scientific adviser on CO2, T.S. (Rama) Ramakrishnan, explains the complex issues surrounding this subject while separating the myths from reality.
Expert Viewpoint - Reconciling upstream and downstream activities in the heavy oil industry
In this follow-up interview on the heavy oil industry, W. Gordon Graves, consulting petroleum engineer, highlights the disconnect between heavy oil’s upstream and downstream sectors and explains how they must be reconciled if the heavy oil industry is to be both productive and efficient.
Expert Viewpoint with Gordon Graves
In the first of two interviews on the heavy oil industry, W. Gordon Graves, consulting petroleum engineer, highlighted the current state of the heavy oil industry and its future, as well as some of the issues that still need to be overcome, and the innovations being considered to address them.
Interview - Dr Ali Suat Bagci
In a wide-ranging interview, Dr Ali Suat Bagci, senior lecturer in the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK, outlines numerous issues facing the heavy oil industry and the thermal recovery methods currently available to increase oil recovery rates.
Expert Viewpoint with David Hin-Sum Law part two - thermal modeling
In the second of two interviews, David Hin-Sum Law, Heavy Oil Technical Director, Schlumberger Reservoir Fluids Center, based in Edmonton, Canada, discusses thermally enhanced recovery of heavy oil in general and thermal modeling in particular.
Expert Viewpoint with David Hin-Sum Law
In the first of two interviews, David Hin-Sum Law, Heavy Oil Technical Director, Schlumberger Reservoir Fluids Center, based in Edmonton, Canada, talks about the heavy oil industry in general, how the industry has recently come of age and the various challenges it still has to overcome.