SPE Distinguished Lecture:
Cold Production: Recovery Mechanisms and Field Performance
This lecture presents two themes: a description of the dominant recovery mechanisms, foamy oil flow and wormhole network growth, obtained from laboratory-scale investigations; and, a description of field performance, illustrated through case studies involving field data and field-scale reservoir simulations.
Ron
Sawatzky is a Senior Research Scientist in the heavy oil and oil sands
business unit at the Alberta Research Council. He earned BMath and MPhil
degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD
degree in applied mathematics from the University of Alberta. For the past 15
years, Sawatzky has served as one of the team leaders for the council’s cold
production research group.
