A comparison of field versus forecast performance for phase B of the UTF SAGD project in the Athabasca Oil Sands
- Alberta Dept. of Energy, Calgary (Canada); and others
The AOSTRA Underground Test Facility (UTF) was constructed in 1985-87 by AOSTRA, now the Oil Sands and Research Division of the Alberta Department of Energy. The UTF is located in the Athabasca oil sands, approximately 600 km north of Edmonton. It was built to allow the testing of horizontal well-based recovery schemes and of mine access technology for the purpose of drilling such wells. The facility consists of two mine shafts and a 2 km network of tunnels which are driven into the Devonian limestone that immediately underlies the target McMurray formation. A unique drilling system was constructed to allow the drilling of wells outward and upward from the tunnel wall, and then horizontally through the pay. Detailed descriptions of the UTF project history, geology, physical plant, and recovery process development are given elsewhere.
- OSTI ID:
- 269568
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9502114-Vol.1; TRN: 96:001163-0057
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. UNITAR international conference on heavy crude and tar sands on fueling for a clean and safe environment, Houston, TX (United States), 12-17 Feb 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]; Related Information: Is Part Of Heavy crude and tar sands -- Fueling for a clean and safe environment. Proceedings: Volume 1; Meyer, R.F. [ed.]; PB: 811 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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