NSERC / Foundation CMG Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation

与当前基于蒸汽的回收方法（例如CSS和SAGD）相比，溶剂强化沥青回收已被确定为节约能源、水消耗和减少温室气体排放的有力候选方法。虽然溶剂基回收工艺的概念和主要机制是已知的，并且一些已经在该领域中成功地尝试，但是对于优化这些溶剂工艺至关重要的关键要素的缺乏程度令人担忧。缺少的是在操作条件下溶剂-沥青相互作用的具体数据和机械理解。需要开发新技术，将石油和天然气资源提供的预期繁荣延续到未来。这些技术是通过实验室工作获得的数据和本教席计划将开发的相应模型的结果。工业界需要这些信息来继续他们对自然能源的经济和精神上的可持续开发。这项工作将创建所需的知识库，以建立强大的，可靠的和有效的模型，油藏和过程模拟。有了这些知识和工具，不仅有可能设计和优化新的和现有的井下开采工艺，而且有可能推进用于升级和精炼的技术。这些发展可以由工业界在商业上加以追求。溶剂强化回收工艺中的主席计划是溶剂型技术的关键推动者，该技术在政治上、社会上和环境上都是可接受的。其目的是支持工业界开发回收和分离工艺，以较低的能源密集度和更环保的方式维持经济上可行的重油回收。

Solvent enhanced bitumen recovery has been identified as a strong candidate for economizing the energy, waterconsumptions and associated reduction of the GHG emissions compared to current steam based recoverymethods such as CSS and SAGD. Although the concepts and primary mechanisms of solvent based recoveryprocesses are known and some have been tried successfully in the field, there is an alarming level of absence ofthe key elements which are crucial for optimizing these solvent processes. Missing is the concrete data andmechanistic understanding of solvent-bitumen interactions at operating conditions. New technologies need tobe developed that will extend the expected prosperity provided by the oil and gas resources far into the future.These technologies are the outcomes of data gained through experimental lab work and the correspondingmodels that this Chair program will develop. Industry needs this information continue their economically andenvironmentally sustainable exploitation of our natural energy resources. This work will create the knowledgebase needed to build robust, reliable and valid models for reservoir and process simulations. With thisknowledge and these tools, it will be possible to not only design and optimize new and existing downholerecovery processes but to advance the technology used for upgrading and refining. These developments canthen be pursued commercially by industry. The Chair program in solvent enhanced recovery processes is a keyenabler for solvent-based technology that is politically, socially and environmentally acceptable. The intentionis to support industry in the development of recovery and separation processes that sustain economically viableheavy oil recovery in a less energy intensive and more environmentally benign manner.