About the Editors .............................................. xv
Preface ...................................................... xvii
Acknowledgments ................................................ xx
Chapter 1 Heavy-oil Reservoirs Their Characterization and
Production ........................................... 1
Satinder Chopra, Larry Lines, Douglas R. Schmitt,
and Mike Batzle
SECTION 1 ROCK PHYSICS ASPECTS ................................ 71
Chapter 2 Seismic Properties of Heavy Oils — Measured Data .... 73
De-hua Han, Jiajin Liu, and Michael Batzle
Chapter 3 Modeling Studies of Heavy Oil — In Between Solid
and Fluid Properties ................................ 81
Agnibha Das and Mike Batzle
Chapter 4 Correlating the Chemical and Physical Properties
of a Set of Heavy Oils from around the World ........ 89
Amy Hinkle, Eun-Jae Shin, Matthew W. Liberatore,
Andrew M. Herring, and Mike Batzle
Chapter 5 Measuring and Monitoring Heavy-oil Reservoir
Properties .......................................... 99
Kevin Wolf, Tiziana Vanorio, and Gary Mavko
Chapter 6 Seismic Rock Physics of Steam Injection in
Bituminous-oil Reservoirs .......................... 107
Evan Bianco, Sam Kaplan, and Douglas Schmitt
Chapter 7 Prediction of Pore Fluid Viscosity Effects on
P-wave Attenuation in Reservoir Sandstones ......... 113
Angus Best, Clive McCann, and Jeremy Sothcott
Chapter 8 Elastic Property Changes in a Bitumen Reservoir
during Steam Injection ............................. 121
Ayato Kato, Shigenobu Onozuka, and Tom Nakayama
SECTION 2 GEOLOGIC/GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION .............. 129
Chapter 9 The Devonian Petroleum System of the Western
Canada Sedimentary Basin - with Implications for
Heavy-oil Reservoir Geology ........................ 131
Hans G. Machel
Chapter 10 Review of Geology of a Giant Carbonate Bitumen
Reservoir, Grosmont Formation, Saleski, Alberta .... 155
Kent R. Barrett and J.C. Hopkins
Chapter 11 Deterministic Mapping of Reservoir Heterogeneity
in Athabasca Oil Sands Using Surface Seismic
Data ............................................... 165
Yong Xu and Satinder Chopra
Chapter 12 Imaging Oil-sands Reservoir Heterogeneities Using
Wide-angle Prestack Seismic Inversion .............. 173
Baishali Roy, Phil Anno, and Michael Gurch
Chapter 13 Characterization of Heavy-oil Reservoir Using
Vp/Vs Ratio and Neural Networks Analysis ........... 183
Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines
Chapter 14 Multicomponent Processing of Seismic Data at the
Jackfish Heavy-oil Project, Alberta ................ 191
Karen J. Pengelly, Larry R. Lines, and Don
C. Lawton
SECTION 3 RESERVOIR MONITORING ............................... 201
Chapter 15 Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling Focusing on
the Effect of Mudstone Clasts on Permeability for
the Steam-assisted Gravity Drainage Process in
the Athabasca Oil Sands ............................ 203
Koji Kashihara, Akihisa Takahashi, Takashi Tsuji,
Takahiro Torigoe, Koji Hosokoshi, and Kenji Endo
Chapter 16 Monitoring an Oil-sands Reservoir in Northwest
Alberta Using Time-lapse 3D Seismic and 3D P-SV
Converted-wave Data ................................ 215
Tom Nakayama, Akihisa Takahashi, Leigh Skinner,
and Ayato Kato
Chapter 17 Oil-sands Reservoir Characterization for
Optimization of Field Development .................. 227
Akihisa Takahashi
SECTION 4 PRODUCTION ......................................... 235
Chapter 18 The Effects of Cold Production on Seismic
Response ........................................... 237
Fereidoon Vasheghani, Joan Embleton, and Larry
Lines
Chapter 19 Effects of Heavy-oil Cold Production on Vp/Vs
Ratio .............................................. 243
Duojun (Albert) Zhang, Larry Lines, and Joan
Embleton
Chapter 20 Collaborative Methods in Enhanced Cold Heavy-oil
Production ......................................... 251
Larry Lines, Hossein Agharbarati, P.F. Daley,
Joan Embleton, Mathew Fay, Tony Settari,
Fereidoon Vasheghani, Tingge Wang, Albert Zhang,
Xun Qi, and Douglas Schmitt
Chapter 21 Crosswell Seismic Imaging — A Critical Tool for
Thermal Projects ................................... 259
Mark McCullum
Chapter 22 The Impact of Oil Viscosity Heterogeneity on
Production from Heavy Oil and Bitumen Reservoirs
Geotailoring Recovery Processes to
Compositionally Graded Reservoirs .................. 265
Ian D. Gates, Jennifer J. Adams, and Steve
R. Larter
Chapter 23 Using Time-lapse Seismic to Monitor the
Toe-to-Heel-Air-Injection (THAITM) Heavy-oil
Production Process ................................. 275
Rob Kendall
SECTION 5 GEOMECHANICAL ASPECTS .............................. 285
Chapter 24 Geomechanics Effects in Thermal Processes for
Heavy-oil Exploitation ............................. 287
Maurice B. Dusseault and Patrick M. Collins
Chapter 25 Passive Seismic and Surface Monitoring of
Geomechanical Deformation Associated with Steam
Injection .......................................... 293
Shawn C. Maxwell, Jing Du, and Julie Shemeta
Chapter 26 Using Multitransient Electromagnetic Surveys to
Characterize Oil Sands and Monitor Steam-assisted
Gravity Drainage ................................... 301
Folke Engelmark
SECTION 6 ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS .............................. 309
Chapter 27 Tar Sands Key Geologic Risks and Opportunities .... 311
Jack R. Century
Acknowledgments ............................................... 313
Index ......................................................... 315
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