Viscosity
Spatially variable oil viscosity plagues heavy oil and oil sands reservoirs. Oil recovery production rates and ultimate volumes of recovery are highly dependent on bitumen viscosity (mobility) under either cold or thermal recovery conditions.
Vertical and horizontal viscosity profiling allows for:
- Mapping of physical property heterogeneity in detail to identify sweet spots & geological barriers.
- Optimal well placement for cold and thermal recovery operations to suit viscosity distributions.
- Optimization of production strategies (steam scheduling).
Gushor Benefits:
- We measure viscosity as close to reservoir temperature as possible (8-200oC) to minimize extrapolation errors.
- Measurements on samples as small as 0.5 mL.
- Vertical and Horizontal viscosity profiling to aid reservoir engineering.
- Measurement of in situ viscosity at steam temperature or at native reservoir temperature.
- Optimize production strategies.
With Gushor, your viscosity data are measured, not estimated!
For difficult samples, Gushor has developed several proprietary methods for extracting accurate viscosity measurements. Check out GViscTM and ProxViscTM in our technologies section for more information.
