Module 1.6 Recovery processes

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Objective 1 Primary Drive Mechanisms: The student will describe various primary recovery mechanisms.

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Pg 4

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Objective 2 Introduction: The student will be introduced to pressure maintenance and explain the two broad categories of injection fluids used to maintain pressure in the reservoir.

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Pg 10

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Objective 3 Voidage Replacement: The student will learn how reservoir voidage is determined and will be able to identify common waterflood patterns.

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Pg 12

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Objective 4 Immiscible Flooding: The student will discuss various pressure maintenance techniques, beginning with waterflooding, which is the most common enhanced recovery technique for oil reservoirs in Western Canada.

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Pg 18

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Objective 5 Miscible Flooding: The student will describe miscible flooding as a pressure maintenance technique.

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Pg 26

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Objective 6 Steam Processes: The student will discuss techniques to heat the reservoir (by injecting energy in the form of steam into the reservoir), thereby reducing the viscosity of oil to make it flow more readily to our production wells.

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Pg 30

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Objective 7 In Situ Combustion: The student will learn about the in situ combustion technique to heat the reservoir.

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Pg 35

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Objective 8 Strip Mining: The student will explain where and how strip mining is used to extract bitumen.

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Pg 40

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Objective 9 Surface Mining Projects: The student will learn about the various surface mining projects for recovery of bitumen from the Alberta oil sands.

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Pg 43

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Objective 10 Primary Recovery Mechanisms: The student will describe the primary recovery mechanisms used for gas reservoirs.

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Pg 45

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Objective 11 Enhanced Recovery - Gas Cycling: The student will discuss the use of gas cycling in a retrograde gas condensate reservoir.

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Pg 47

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