Chen, Zhangxing (John)Farouq Ali, S. M.Song, Qiuyue2015-07-302015-11-202015-07-302015http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2370The bitumen resource in the Grosmont carbonate deposits in Alberta is over 400 billion barrels, but hitherto a commercial recovery scheme remains elusive. This study employs numerical simulation for several steam-based recovery schemes and proposes steam injection strategies. Selected simulation results were analyzed using analytical methods. A representative geological model of Grosmont was used to examine numerically several steam injection schemes, which included: vertical or horizontal well cyclic, SAGD, and conventional pattern steamfloods. Steamflooding, using vertical steam injectors and a horizontal producer, is proposed for the Grosmont carbonate reservoir to overcome shortcomings of other schemes. The vertical well injector-horizontal well producer steamflood gave the same recovery performance 21 months earlier than the horizontal well cyclic. Analytical methods were used to interpret physical mechanisms operating in steam injection processes for this reservoir, including the steam over-injection, steam override, condensate formation at the steam front and water flashing.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.GeologyEngineering--PetroleumEngineering--Operations Researchcarboante reservoirGrosmontbitumen recoverySteam Assisted Gravity DrainageCyclic steam stimulationsteamfloodmaster thesis10.11575/PRISM/27879