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Joint Industry Projects

SAGD Steam Injection Control

Operational experience in steam injection control in vertical and deviated wellbores, such as the large steam flood projects in California and Indonesia, has shown that proper control of steam injection can have a significant impact on the steam-oil ratio (SOR), oil recovery and overall economics of a thermal recovery project.  A growing body of field evidence suggests that better steam injection control methods appear to be called for in order to improve the steam injection conformance, uniformity of the steam chamber growth, and increase the oil rates, thermal efficiency and recovery

LP-SAGD: Wellbore Architecture Alternatives

To date, most SAGD projects have used a combination of high-pressure steam injection, natural steam lift, and gas lift to transport the produced fluids to surface.

LP-SAGD—Laboratory Testing of Artificial Lift Systems

Status: Project entered experimental loop construction phase in March 2004. Pump testing for the JIP began in May 2004. The flow loop is now available for other pump or downhole equipment tests.

ESP-RIFTS—ESP-Reliability Information and Failure Tracking System

Status: Currently in Phase X (May 2008-April 2009)

The objective of the ESP-RIFTS JIP is to develop and maintain a system which will:

PCP-RLI—Progressing Cavity Pump-Run-Life Improvement

Status: Phase VI initiated May, 2008 - Field experience has shown that the run lives of progressing cavity pumps (PCPs) vary considerably among applications and, in many cases, they remain unacceptably short. The resultant equipment replacement and well servicing costs contribute significantly to the operating costs of PCP systems.

HOGS—Assessment of Heavy Oil Gathering System Alternatives

Status: Phase I, II, & III completed. - The objective of the Heavy Oil Gathering Systems (HOGS) Joint Industry Project (JIP) is to identify processes that are cost competitive with trucking for transporting produced fluid from a heavy oil well to a battery.

Downhole Oil/Water Separation

Status: Completed - C-FER developed the Downhole Oil/Water Separations (DHOWS) technology through a Joint Industry Project with over 39 operating and vendor companies. The culmination of this was the commercial realization of the ESP variant within the relatively short period of time of just over three years.