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Understanding the Mobile Oil Zone in the Toe-to-heel Air Injection (THAI) Process
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, IOR 2011 - 16th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Apr 2011, cp-230-00007
- ISBN: 978-90-73834-07-1
Abstract
Conventional in situ combustion (ISC) has largely failed to establish itself as a major heavy oil recovery process. The recent field piloting of the THAI process (Toe-to-Heel Air Injection) by Petrobank, in the Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada, seems set to d