Husky Oil Operations Limited

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Anthony Kay

Hong Feng

Methods and systems are provided for monitoring subsurface steam chamber development in a thermal hydrocarbon recovery operation, which employ a fiber optic cable in a horizontal wellbore beneath the steam chamber as part of a distributed acoustic sensing technique in which the cable receives attenuated sound waves passing through the steam chamber and transmits a signal corresponding to the attenuated sound waves and unattenuated sound waves for subsequent signal processing.

System and method for monitoring subsurface steam chamber development using fiber optic cables

Methods and systems are provided for optimizing bitumen production from a plurality of wells employing steam-based recovery techniques such as SAGD, using hyperspectral imaging of produced emulsion samples to estimate total bitumen content at each well as a means of determining steam injection adjustment to enhance production.

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Calgary, Canada

Anthony Kay