Regional
Economic Downturn Slows Heavy Oil Developments
Petroleum Africa checked in with Kambiz Safinya, heavy oil theme director with Schlumberger on the impact of the economic downturn on the development of heavy oil, and some of the emerging technologies that are making the unobtainable obtainable.
Heavy Oil Recovery - Cyclical Solvent Injection
This feature article reviews post-cold production technologies including cyclic solvent injection (CSI) to improve heavy oil recovery in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. ROGTEC Magazine, 2009 all rights reserved www.rogtecmagazine.com
Enhanced Oil Recovery - Technology Implementation at Lukoil
This feature article reviews LUKoil’s EOR technology development efforts including methods to improve heavy oil recovery. ROGTEC Magazine, 2009 all rights reserved www.rogtecmagazine.com
What future for extra heavy oil and bitumen: The Orinoco case
Most assessments of the world's sources of oil tend to consider only the so called "conventional" resources and exclude, among others, the extra heavy oil and bitumen resources (10° API specific gravity). However these resources are increasingly becoming commercially producible, since the early 80's in the Athabasca province of Alberta, Canada and, more recently, in the Orinoco province of Venezuela. The purpose of this paper is to review the present status of the Orinoco bitumen development, and to evaluate the future contribution to worldwide oil reserves offered by these "non conventional" resources of extra heavy oil and bitumen. (Copyright © 1998. World Energy Council)
