Methods for recovering heavy oil are provided. In at least one embodiment, theprocess includes conditioning areservoir of interest, then initially producing fluids and particulate solidssuch as sand to increase reservoir access ("slurryproduc-tion"). The initial production may generate high permeability channelsor wormholes in the formation, which may be used for heavyoil production processes ("hydrocarbon production") such as cold flow (CHOPS)or enhanced production processes such as SAGD,or VAPEX.
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