Comsol 2D Simulation of Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery by SAGD

Abstract. In western Canada, the heavy oil thermal recovery technology SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) has been widely used in heavy oil recovery, and achieved good production effect. In this paper, the engineering background is that during the SAGD process at a Canadian oil sands block, trying to obtain the relevant evaluation and prediction about the steam chamber. Multi-physics flexibility and computational performance of COMSOL gave us the idea to model SAGD one of the popular thermal method of oil recovery. This article focuses on the model framework and the simulation results about the numerical software Comsol in numerical simulation of SAGD process