Hot Solvent Assisted Gravity Drainage in Naturally Fractured Heavy Oil Reservoirs : A New Model and Approach to Determine Optimal Solvent Injection Temperature

The authors acknowledge the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen for providing the required facilities to complete this research. We are also grateful for technical comments from Mehrdad Taghizadeh Manzari (School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen). In addition to this, we appreciate the access to the Maxwell High Performance Computing Cluster of the University of Aberdeen IT Service (www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/research/hpc.php), provided by Dell Inc. and supported by Alces Software. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Peer reviewedPostprin