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steam-assisted gravity drainage: a standalone construct

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Petroleum engineering

heavy oil recovery in which steam from an upper horizontal well heats bitumen that drains by gravity to a lower producing well.

In petroleum engineering, steam-assisted gravity drainage refers to heavy oil recovery in which steam from an upper horizontal well heats bitumen that drains by gravity to a lower producing well. This meaning comes from Butler (1981) in Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology.[1]

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References

Butler, R. M., & Stephens, D. J. (1981). The Gravity Drainage of Steam-heated Heavy Oil to Parallel Horizontal Wells. Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 20(02). https://doi.org/10.2118/81-02-07

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