The high recovery performance of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) makes it a popular option for heavy oil resources. Currently, most the reservoirs developed by SAGD in China are late development phase, with energy consumption due to reduced thermal ef?ciency. use wind-down processes involving CO2 combination steam is considered as viable alternative limit consumption, and also reduce amo...

The lift station is becoming increasingly common as a component of the sewerage systems of Indiana. Cities and towns that have operated for years without the necessity of a lift station (other than one integral with sewage treatment plant) are finding it necessary to include a lift station in plans for extension of sewers. Those cities and towns which have not yet found it necessary to include ...

gravity acceleration data have grand pursuit for marine applications. due to environmental effects, marine gravity observations always hold a high noise level. in this paper, we propose an approach to produce marine gravity data using satellite altimetry, high-resolution geopotential models and harmonic splines. on the one hand, harmonic spline functions have great capability for local gravity ...

BACKGROUND FlowSafeTM (BeckerSmith Medical, Irvine, CA, USA) is a novel, robotic, external lumbar drainage (ELD) system, which was designed to control cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage, reduce complications, and decrease treatment costs. METHODS  Forty-seven consecutive neurosurgical patients requiring ELD were treated using the FlowSafe system. RESULTS In 39 of 40 patients with traumatic ...

Production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. This paper explores the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as an alternative to the traditional SAGD simulation approach. Feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the Back-Error-Propaga...

To meet future global oil and gas demands, unconventional gas resources will play an important role in the U.S and world energy supply. To develop unconventional gas resources, we must first identify their occurrences and quantify their potential. The analog methodology that provides supplementary analysis to characterize the less accessible reservoirs has been employed in the oil & gas industr...

Mass changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet resolved by drainage system regions were derived from a local mass concentration analysis of NASA-Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE mission) observations. From 2003 to 2005, the ice sheet lost 101 +/- 16 gigaton/year, with a gain of 54 gigaton/year above 2000 meters and a loss of 155 gigaton/year at low...

The report illustrates the results of the activities carried out by the European Working Group. Four subjects were selected by the Group: "Regulatory Rules and/or Normal Practice" adopted in different Countries; "Analysis of Measurement Data", referring to recent relevant studies; "Numerical Modelling" to compute uplift pressures; "Clearing Of Drainage Systems". As far as regulatory rules are c...