Heavy-Oil Reservoirs

摘要

Oil producers involved in heavy-oil recovery face special production challenges. However, innovative drilling, completion, stimulation and monitoring techniques help make heavy-oil reservoirs profitable assets. Heavy oil is often overlooked as a resource because of the difficulties and costs involved in its production. But the more than 6 trillion barrels [1 trillion m~3] of oil in place attributed to the heaviest hydrocarbons-triple the amount of combined world reservers of conventional oil and gas- deserve a closer look.