Robert D. Orr, J. R. Johnston, E. M. Manko,
Abstract Lloydminster comprises the most southerly deposit of the Alberta-Saskatchewan Mannville heavy oil sand belt. Hydrocarbon entrapment is ... has demonstrated primary recovery. Manllville sedimentation in the Lloydminster area was influenced by paleotopography and structure on ... the Precambrian Shield. The Mannville sands of the Lloydminster area contain more than 16 billion barrels of ... estimate comprise the Colony, McLaren, Waseca, Sparky, GP, Lloydminster and Cummings sands. The Sparky is the most ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
1978 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Abstract The Lloydminster heavy oil area has experienced an erratic growth since the first commercial oil was discovered in 1943. Prior ... as our technology improves, will enable the vast Lloydminster Field to maintain its dominant position as the ... Introduction THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY in the Lloydminster areastraddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border dates back to 1934 when the Lloydminster Gas Company completed the first commercial well in Saskatchewan as a gas producer just southeast of Lloydminster. This discovery allowed Lloydminster to become one of ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1973 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Abstract The heavy oil deposits of the Lloydminster area of Alberta and Saskatchewan represent a vast resource (3.5 billion m3 or 20 billion barrels) of great importance to Canada. Unlike ... projections. Introduction The heavy oil deposits of the Lloydminster area have an everincreasing importance in Canada's ... inter-well communication are not problems in the Lloydminster reservoirs. In recent years, both the success in the Lloydminster pilots and the limited success in the oil ... have served to underscore the importance of the Lloydminster deposits. It is certain that with increased field ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
1986 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
... polymer flood has been designed for the David Lloydminster ‘A’ pool in east central Alberta. The David Lloydminster ‘A’ pool was originally under waterflood from November ... 41-3-W4M approximately 100 km south of Lloydminster, Alberta. The pool is in the Lloydminster formation, which is an unconsolidated (partially cemented) sand ... are shown in Table 1. Initially the David Lloydminster ‘A’ pool was under primary operations from 1969 ... 3) led to further investigations on the David Lloydminster ‘A’ pool.
Tópico(s): Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
1988 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Robert D. Orr, J. R. Johnston, E. M. Manko,
ABSTRACT Lloydminster comprises the most southerly deposit of the Alberta-Saskatchewan, Mannville sand belt. Hydrocarbon entrapment is controlled in ... has demonstrated primary recovery. Mannville sedimentation in the Lloydminster area was influenced by paleotopography and structure on ... the Precambrian Shield. The Mannville sands of the Lloydminster area contain more than 16 billion barrels of ... estimate are the Colony, McLaren, Waseca, Sparky, GP, Lloydminster and Cummings sands. The Sparky is the most ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
1977 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists | Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
ABSTRACT The Mannville Group of the Lloydminster area at present contains nine informal formations. From core study it appears that there exist only three, separate, genetic intervals which are ... strata, and iv) the Columbian Orogeny. In the Lloydminster area the lower and middle Mannville strata are ... rocks above the quartzose lower Mannville are lithofeldspathic. Lloydminster area sandstones were derived from sedimentary, metamorphic and ... fluvival network (upper Mannville). Mannville deposition in the Lloydminster area was terminated by a major transgression which ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
1982 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists | Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
... waterflood performance in heavy-oil reservoirs in the Lloydminster area of western Canada. Lack of reliable primary ... OOIP). Introduction The heavy-oil sands of the Lloydminster area (Fig. 1) are the southern extension of ... deposits extending from Athabasca through Cold Lake to Lloydminster. Unlike the first two areas, many of the Lloydminster reservoirs produce under primary recovery mechanisms. Total oil- ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1982 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Petroleum Technology
S.M. Farouq Ali, J.M. Figueroa, E.A. Azuaje, R.G. Farquharson,
... investigation was concerned with the recovery of the Lloydminster crude (Saskatchewan) and the Morichal crude (Venezuela) at ... pH's ranging from acid to basic. The Lloydminster crude yielded both oil-in-water and water- ... The oil recovery in the case of the Lloydminster crude was 30 to 46% of the in- ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
1979 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
K.A. Miller, L. Stevens, B.J. Watts,
... recovery mechanisms. Introduction The Waseca formation in the Lloydminster heavy-oil deposits of Alberta and Saskatchewan contains ... to 8.3. Geology and Reservoir Description The Lloydminster heavy-oil deposits (Fig. 3) form the southern ... in the Athabasca and Cold Lake areas. Most Lloydminster deposits are able to produce 3 % to 8 % ... temperature (18 degrees C). Most development in the Lloydminster areahas been in the Sparky formation, but other ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1991 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Petroleum Technology
Alireza Morshedian, James A. MacEachern, Shahin E. Dashtgard,
... of the Lower Cretaceous Sparky Alloformation (Mannville Group), Lloydminster Area, west-central Saskatchewan, Canada Alireza Morshedian; Alireza ... of the Lower Cretaceous Sparky Alloformation (Mannville Group), Lloydminster Area, west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian ... Abstract The Lower Cretaceous Sparky Alloformation in the Lloydminster area of Saskatchewan, Canada consists of a complex ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2012 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists | Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Neil L. Anderson, Ralph W. Knapp,
... were widely distributed and uniformly deposited in the Lloydminster area, Western Canada (T45-65, R20W3M-R5W4M); however, ... is not now what it once was. The Lloydminster area is now bisected by the north‐south ... the dissolution of the Prairie salt in the Lloydminster area was triggered and/or accentuated in part ... present seismic and geologic control from both the Lloydminster and Rainbow Lake areas of western Canada, which ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1993 - Society of Exploration Geophysicists | Geophysics
... two electromagnetic (EM) stimulation projects conducted in the Lloydminster heavy oil area. The two wells (AI-11- ... EOR) to field test the process in the Lloydminster area heavy oil formations. A majority of the heavy oil sands around Lloydminster are well suited to the application of electromagnetic ( ...
Tópico(s): Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
1995 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
T. Frauenfeld, D.R. Lillico, C. Jossy, G. Vilcsak, S. Rabeeh, Sudheer Kumar Singh,
... representative of the Burnt Lake field or the Lloydminster region. The solvents used were gaseous or two- ... mix+ process to $44/m3 for the thick Lloydminster process. Additional scenarios were investigated by extrapolating oil ... drainage process was potentially economic for a thick Lloydminster (> 15 m) reservoir, but not in a thin (< 8 m) Lloydminster reservoir. The most critical factor for economic success ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1998 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Hyun Woong Jang, Daoyong Yang, Huazhou Li,
... in three different heavy oils, i.e., two Lloydminster heavy oils and a Cactus Lake heavy oil. ... found for various gas mixtures in two different Lloydminster heavy oils that the newly developed empirical mixing ... deviations (AARDs) for diffusion systems with two different Lloydminster heavy oils and a Cactus Lake heavy oil ... the AARDs for diffusion systems with two different Lloydminster heavy oils are found to be 3.56% ...
Tópico(s): Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
2017 - ASM International | Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Martin Lavoie, Jennifer Baillie, Évelise Bourlon, Elizabeth O’Connell, Katlyn MacKay, Ian Boelens, David Risk,
... 2016 and 2018. The studies were conducted in Lloydminster, Alberta, where produced gases are sweet (i.e., ... sites were emitting CH4, compared to 37% in Lloydminster. The measured CH4 emission rates in Peace River were, however, significantly lower than in Lloydminster for both years, and had fallen from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, emissions in Lloydminster were fairly unchanged relative to previous measurements taken ...
Tópico(s): Wind and Air Flow Studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
... the design features of Husky Pipeline Ltd.'s Lloydminster to Hardisty system, which went into operation late ... utilizes three pumping stations tohandle a blend of Lloydminster crude and natural gasoline. The pumpage isheated to ... crude source, where it is blended with the Lloydminster crude. The blend pumping rate is 15,000 ...
Tópico(s): Oil and Gas Production Techniques
1965 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
In the Lloydminster heavy oil area in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Mannville sandstone-shale sequence (Lower Cretaceous) contains in excess of ... in development of the heavy oil resources near Lloydminster and its recognition may be important in the ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
1977 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists | AAPG Bulletin
J Chmielowiec, J E Beshai, Albert E. George,
... PAH) ring classes. Two crude oils: the heavy Lloydminster and the light Medicine River oils from the ... and higher degree of alkyl substitution distinguish the Lloydminster polyaromatic content. The analytical potential of this approach ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
1980 - Elsevier BV | Fuel
K.A. Miller, R.G. Moore, R.G. Ursenbach, C.J. Laureshen, S. A. Mehta,
... or slant wells was only economic in the Lloydminster Block; thus, most of the existing geologic studies ... Stratigraphic nomenclature varies locally, but, in general, most Lloydminster area regional sand cold production is from the ... oil in place vs. sand thickness for the Lloydminster area, and Table 1 describes regional sand properties. ...
Tópico(s): Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
2002 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Blaine F. Hawkins, Kevin C. Taylor, H. A. Nasr‐El‐Din,
... alkali, sodium carbonate. Coreflood tests conducted with David Lloydminster oil and brine were used for mechanistic studies. ... Excellent response was also observed for the David Lloydminster oil in Berea sandstone core. Introduction The mechanisms ...
Tópico(s): Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
1994 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Gareth Chalmers, Ron Boyd, Claus F. K. Diessel,
... coal-bearing Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group in the Lloydminster heavy oil field, eastern Alberta. The study area ... depositional events. Complex relations between the Cummings and Lloydminster coal seams are caused by the lateral fragmentation ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
2013 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists | AAPG Bulletin
Zeinab Khansari, Ian D. Gates, Nader Mahinpey,
Low-temperature oxidation (LTO) of Lloydminster heavy oil samples was investigated for a basic understanding of the reaction kinetics and an estimation of the product sequence. Ramped ... energies. Compared to the sample from Alaska, the Lloydminster heavy oil exhibited higher derivative weight loss values, ...
Tópico(s): Subcritical and Supercritical Water Processes
2013 - Elsevier BV | Fuel
Gökhan Coşkuner, Khosrow Naderi, Tayfun Babadagli,
Lloydminster area that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan border contains vast amounts of heavy oil deposits in thin ... cannot be widely applied because most of the Lloydminster heavy oil reservoirs are thin and the heat ... carried out with a distillate from Husky's Lloydminster upgrader used for heavy oil transportation in the ...
Tópico(s): Drilling and Well Engineering
2015 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Elizabeth O’Connell, David Risk, Emmaline Atherton, Évelise Bourlon, Chelsea Fougère, Jennifer Baillie, David Lowry, Jacob Johnson,
... to measure fugitive and vented gas emissions across Lloydminster (heavy oil), Peace River (heavy oil/bitumen), and ... downwind. Emission occurrences and rates were highest in Lloydminster, where 40.8% of sampled well pads were ... pads we found to be persistently emitting in Lloydminster, an estimated 40.2% (95% CI: 32.2%– ...
Tópico(s): Coal Properties and Utilization
2019 - BioOne | Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
Roxanne Bérubé, Charles Gauthier, Thibault Bourdin, Marilou Bouffard, Gaëlle Triffault‐Bouchet, Valérie S. Langlois, Patrice Couture,
... and compared their toxicity to a conventional oil (Lloydminster Heavy) on fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) larvae. Larvae ... up to 16.5% and 18.6% for Lloydminster and for Bluesky, respectively. All three oils induced ... in gst gene expression. For the Bluesky and Lloydminster exposures, an increase in malondialdehyde concentration was also ...
Tópico(s): Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
2021 - Elsevier BV | Aquatic Toxicology
Judith Vogt, Justin Laforest, Mark Argento, Sarah Kennedy, Évelise Bourlon, Martin Lavoie, David Risk,
... roughly 43% of total measured CH4 emissions in Lloydminster, 9% in Kindersley, and 0% in Swift Current. ... of actively producing oil and gas infrastructure in Lloydminster were at least 50% lower (36 ± 7 m3/ ... sampled sites. Unlike previous studies, measured emissions in Lloydminster were lower than reported values (147 ± 10 m3/ ...
Tópico(s): Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
2022 - BioOne | Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
A. I. Burnett, Katherine Adams,
... for the deposition of the Sparky Sandstone at Lloydminster is presented and is related to the geology of a portion of the Lloydminster Sparky pool. An engineering and economic evaluation to ...
Tópico(s): Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
1977 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists | Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
... Husky Oil's Thermal Operations District in the Lloydminster, Saskatchewan area, has had extensive experience with sucker ... Oil Operations Ltd. has been active in the Lloydminster, Saskatchewan / Alberta, heavy oil fields since 1946 and ... five active enhanced oil recovery (EOR) pilots. The Lloydminster operators produce from a series of lower Cretaceous ... s. The original-oil-in-place in the Lloydminster area has been estimated at 500 million m3( ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1991 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology
Bruce L. Bak Gordon W. Hodgson,
... oil, from downdip at the southwest; and the Lloydminster oil pools, from very local source rocks.
Tópico(s): Global Energy and Sustainability Research
1959 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists | AAPG Bulletin
G R Scott, HM Collins, D.L. Flock,
... of viscouscrude oil from sands native to the Lloydminster area. Displacement tests on along sand pack showed ... ratio onrecovery by waterflooding. Preliminary measurement of dead Lloydminster crudeviscosities at reservoir temperature indicated that viscosity ratios ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
1965 - Society of Petroleum Engineers | Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology