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Heavy-oil and oil-sand petroleum systems in Alberta and beyond
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- edited by Frances J. Hein, Dale Leckie, Steve Larter, and John R. Suter
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- English
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- Tulsa, Okla. : co-published by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists : Canadian Heavy Oil Association : AAPG Energy Minerals Division, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- xv, 131 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 1629812641, 9780891810704, 9781629812649, 0891810706
- OCLC
- ocn842151116, ocn932121839
- Chapters 1-3 are printed in their entirety in this volume. CD-ROM includes the full 28 chapters. All are in full color.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Ch. 1 : Heavy oil and bitumen petroleum systems in Alberta and beyond: the future is nonconventional and the future is now / Frances J. Hein, Dale Leckie, Steve Larter, and John R. Suter -- Ch. 2 : Dynamic interplay of oil mixing, charge timing, and biodegradation in forming the Albert oil sands: insights from geologic modeling and biogeochemistry / Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Joseph Westrich, and Cor van Kruisdijk -- Ch. 3 : Geologic reservoir characterization and evaluation of the Petroceden̄̃o Field, early Miocene Oficina formation, Orinoco heavy oil belt, Venezuela / Allard W. Martinius, Jan Hegner, Inge Kaas, Celia Bejarano, Xavier Mathieu, and Rune Mjos -- Ch. 4 : Alberta oil sands: reserves and long-term supply outlook / Farhood Rahnama, Richard A. Marsh, and LeMoine Philp -- Ch. 5 : Comparison of oil generation kinetics derived from hydrous pyrolysis and rock-eval in four-dimensional models of the Western Canada sedimentary basin and its Northern Alberta oil sands / Debra K. Higley and Michael D. Lewan -- Ch. 6 : Impact of reservoir heterogeneity and geohistory on the variability of bitumen properties and on the distribution of gas- and water-saturated zones in the Athabasca oil sands, Canada / Milovan Fustic, Barry Bennett, Stephen M. Hubbard, Haiping Huang, Thomas Oldenburg, and Steve Larter -- Ch. 7 : Regional geologic framework for the Athabasca oil sands, Northeastern Alberta, Canada / Frances J. Hein, Graham Dolby, and Brent Fairgrieve -- Ch. 8 : Significance of palynofloral assemblages from the lower Cretaceous McMurray formation and associated strata, Surmont and surrounding areas in North-central Alberta / Graham Dolby, Thomas D. Demchuk, and John R. Suter -- Ch. 9 : Stratigraphic architecture of a large-scale point-bar complex in the McMurray formation: Syncrude's Mildred Lake mine, Alberta, Canada / Thomas R. Nardin, Howard R. Feldman, and B. Joan Carter -- Ch. 10 : Depositional setting and oil sands reservoir characterization of giant longitudinal sandbars at Ells River: marginal marine facies of the McMurray formation, Northern Alberta basin, Canada / Paul L. Broughton -- Ch. 11 : Advanced seismic-stratigraphic imaging of depositional elements in a lower Cretaceous (Mannville) heavy oil reservoir, West-central Saskatchewan, Canada / Sabrina E. Sarzalejo Silva and Bruce S. Hart -- Ch. 12 : Oil-saturated Mississippian-Pennsylvanian sandstones of South-central Kentucky / Michael T. May -- Ch. 13 : Overview of heavy oil, seeps, and oil (tar) sands, California / Frances J. Hein -- Ch. 14 : Unconventional oil resources of the Uinta Basin, Utah / Steven Schamel -- Ch. 15 : Integrated reservoir description of the Ugnu heavy oil accumulation, North Slope, Alaska / Erik Hulm, Greg Bernaski, Boris Kostic, Steve Lowe, and Rick Matson -- Ch. 16 : Overview of natural bitumen fields of the Siberian platform, Olenek Uplift, Eastern Siberia, Russia / Vladimir A. Kashirtsev and Frances J. Hein -- Ch. 17 : Multiple-scale geologic models for heavy oil reservoir characterization / Clayton V. Deutsch -- Ch. 18 : Modeling of a tide-influenced point-bar heterogeneity distribution and impacts on steam-assisted gravity drainage production: example from Steepbank River, McMurray formation, Canada / Geoffray Musial, Richard Labourdette, Jessica Franco, Jean-Yves Reynaud -- Ch. 19 : Reservoir modeling by constraining stochastic simulation to deterministically interpreted three-dimensional geobodies: case study from lower Cretaceous McMurray formation, Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage project, Northeast Alberta, Canada / Milovan Fustic, David Thurston, Adal Al-Dliwe, Dale A. Leckie, and Dany Cadiou -- Ch. 20 : Spectral decomposition in a heavy oil and bitumen sand reservoir / Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines -- Ch. 21 : Fundamentals of heat transport at the edge of steam chambers in cyclic steam stimulation and steam-assisted gravity drainage / Ian D. Gates, Marya Cokar, and Michael S. Kallos -- Ch. 22 : Integration of steam-assisted gravity drainage fundamentals with reservoir characterization to optimize production / Rudy Strobl -- Ch. 23 : Screening criteria and technology sequencing for in-situ viscous oil production / Maurice B. Dusseault -- Ch. 24 : New progress and technological challenges in the integral development of the Faja Petrolifera del Orinoco, Venezuela / Teófilo Villarroel, Adriana Zambrano, and Roland Garcia -- Ch. 25 : Trading water for oil: tailings management and water use in surface-mined oil sands / Randy Mikula -- Ch. 26 : Potential role of microbial biofilms in oil sands tailings management / Victoria Kostenko and Robert John Martinuzzi -- Ch. 27 : Geothermal energy as a source of heat for oil sands processing in Northern Alberta, Canada / Jacek Majorowicz, Martyn Unsworth, Tom Chacko, Allan Gray, Larry Heaman, David K. Potter, Douglas R. Schmitt, and Tayfun Babadagli -- Ch. 28 : Joslyn Creek steam-assisted gravity drainage: geologic considerations related to a surface steam release incident, Athabasca oil sands area, Northeastern Alberta, Canada / Frances J. Hein and Brent Fairgrieve