Healing SAGD hot spots

By injecting surfactant

hot spot between well pairsHow do you stop steam from short circuiting from injector to producer in a SAGD Scheme?

One operator documents his attempt and improving injection conformance by injecting surfactant into SAGD hot spots. A hot spot is where steam from a SAGD injector bypasses directly to a producer.

His application documents the thinking behind this technology for reservoir path healing.

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An AER application was submitted that has some interesting technical intelligence. We found this information using AppIntel.

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Tags: Thermal, Heavy Oil

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