CHOA Handbook
The CHOA Handbook provides a source of current knowledge that serves as an introduction to all aspects related to heavy oil and as a first stop to understand the history, the current focus, and the future potential of heavy oil and bitumen.
- Genre: All Books, Unconventional
Cast & Characters
Markets and Logistics for Heavy and Synthetic Crude
Environment and Regulatory Best Management Practices
Geological and Geophysical
Geostatistics
Geomechanics
Reservoir and Wellbore Simulation
Drilling and Completions
Field Testing
Bitumen/Heavy Oil Upgrading
Heavy Oil Research
| 3-4 | Synopsis |
| 5-34 | Canada's Oil Sands: Opportunities and Challenges to 2015 |
| 35-50 | Oil Sands Economics |
| 51-66 | The Oil Sands of Canada: 300% Growth; Buy and Hold... and Hold and Hold |
| 67-70 | Synopsis |
| 71-114 | Incorporating Climate Change Considerations in Environmental Assessment: General Guidance for Practicioners |
| 115-126 | Expanding the Scoping Community |
| 127-146 | Barriers to Implementation of Cumulative Effects Assessment |
| 147-152 | Synopsis |
| 153-204 | Regional Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology of the Mannville Group: Southwestern Saskatchewan |
| 205-228 | The Clearwater Formation, Cold Lake, Alberta: A worldclass hydrocarbon reservoir hosted in a complex succession of tide-dominated deltaic deposits |
| 229-256 | An Atlas of Lithofacies of the McMurray Formation Athabasca oil sands deposit, Northeastern Alberta: Surface and Subsurface |
| 257-284 | Regional Geology and Sedimentology of the basal Cretaceous Peace River oil sands deposit, north-central Alberta |
| 285-294 | Seismic Monitoring of steam-based recovery of bitumen |
| 295-300 | Reservoir Monitoring and characterization for heavy oil thermal recovery |
| 301-306 | Techniques applied to obtain very high resolution 3-D imaging at an Athabasca tar sands thermal pilot |
| 307-318 | Effective processing of non-repeatable 4-D seismic data to monitor heavy oil SAGD steam flood at East Senlac, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 319-320 | Synopsis |
| 321-340 | SAGD Reservoir Characterization Using Geostatistics: Application to the Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada |
| 341-356 | Fluvial Meandering Channelized Reservoirs: a Stochastic & Process-Based Approach |
| 357-374 | Geostatistical Models for Shales in Distributary Channel Point Bars (Ferron Sandstone, Utah): From Ground-Penetrating Radar Data to Three-Dimensional Flow Modeling |
| 375-396 | The Development of Appropriate Upscaling Procedures |
| 397-400 | Synopsis |
| 401-414 | Sand Production Caused by Foamy Oil Flow |
| 415-428 | Physics and Modeling of Thermal Flow and Soil Mechanics in Unconsolidated Porous Media |
| 429-438 | Evaluation of Reservoir Properties from Geomechanical Tests |
| 439-448 | Design of the Monitoring Program for AOSTRA's Underground Test Facility |
| 449-450 | Synopsis |
| 451-462 | Numerical Study of the SAGD Process in the Burnt Lake Oil Sands Lease |
| 463-470 | A New Combustion Process Using Horizontal Wells and Gravity Drainage |
| 471-478 | Effective Application of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage of Bitumen to Long Horizontal Well Pairs |
| 479-494 | An Integrated Approach to Understanding Cold Production Mechanisms of Heavy Oil Reservoirs |
| 495-498 | Synopsis |
| 499-506 | MacKay River SAGD Project Benefits from New Slant Rig Design |
| 507-510 | Application of Top Drive Drilling to Horizontal Wells |
| 511-418 | Magnetic Ranging Technologies for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage and Unique Well Geometries |
| 519-528 | Implementation of Advanced Cementing Techniques to Improve Long Term Zonal Isolation in Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage Wells |
| 529-532 | Synopsis |
| 533-542 | Application of Intelligent System (DES PCP) for Monitoring Progessing Cavity Pumps |
| 543-550 | Mobil's SAGD Experience in Celtic, Saskatchewan |
| 551-564 | Field Implementation of Solvent Aided Process |
| 565-574 | Field Test of Electrical Heating with Horizontal and Vertical Wells |
| 575-578 | Synopsis |
| 579-590 | LC-Fining: Recent Innovations Enable Refiners to Produce Clean Fuels at High Conversions |
| 591-600 | The Start-up of the Bi-Provincial Upgrader |
| 601-608 | Processing Oilsands Bitumen is Syncrude's R&D Focus |
| 609-624 | The Long Lake Project - The First Field Integration of SAGD and Upgrading |
| 625-628 | Synopsis |
| 629-640 | Investigation of SAGD Steam Trap Control in Two and Three Dimensions |
| 641-650 | Proposed Air Injection Recovery of Cold-Produced Heavy Oil Reservoirs |
| 651-668 | Mechanism of the Vapor Extraction Process for Heavy Oil and Bitumen |
| 669-684 | Tracking Cold Production Footprints |
