Abstract
Kelsey Schiltz, Loren Zeigler and David Gray demonstrate how the integration of timelapse compressional and multi-component seismic data has resulted in a geologic model of low permeability shales and enhanced the understanding of the steam chamber through imaging of the heat and pressure fronts in the Long Lake bitumen field in Alberta, Canada. Long Lake is a bitumen field covering 63,000 acres within the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada. Bitumen is a special type of heavy oil that is less than 10 API and is immobile at in situ conditions. Long Lake bitumen (~8 API) is produced from the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation using an in situ thermal recovery method called steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).
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