Table of Contents:
  • Heavy oil and bitumen petroleum systems in Alberta and beyond : the future is nonconventional and the future is now / Frances J. Hein, Dale Leckie, Steve Larter, and John R. Suter
  • Dynamic interplay of oil mixing, charge timing, and biodegradation in forming the Albert oil sands : insights from geologic modeling and biogeochemistry / Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Joseph Westrich, and Cor van Kruisdijk
  • Geologic reservoir characterization and evaluation of the Petroceden̄̃o field, early Miocene Oficina Formation, Orinoco heavy oil belt, Venezuela / Allard W. Martinius, Jan Hegner, Inge Kaas, Celia Bejarano, Xavier Mathieu, and Rune Mjos
  • Alberta oil sands : reserves and long-term supply outlook / Farhood Rahnama, Richard A. Marsh, and LeMoine Philp
  • Comparison of oil generation kinetics derived from hydrous pyrolysis and rock-eval in four-dimensional models of the western Canada sedimentary basin and its northern Alberta oil sands / Debra K. Higley and Michael D. Lewan
  • Impact of reservoir heterogeneity and geohistory on the variability of bitumen properties and on the distribution of gas- and water-saturated zones in the Athabasca oil sands, Canada / Milovan Fustic, Barry Bennett, Stephen M. Hubbard, Haiping Huang, Thomas Oldenburg, and Steve Larter
  • Regional geologic framework for the Athabasca oil sands, Northeastern Alberta, Canada / Frances J. Hein, Graham Dolby, and Brent Fairgrieve
  • Significance of palynofloral assemblages from the lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation and associated strata, Surmont and surrounding areas in north-central Alberta / Graham Dolby, Thomas D. Demchuk, and John R. Suter
  • Stratigraphic architecture of a large-scale point-bar complex in the McMurray Formation : Syncrude's Mildred Lake mine, Alberta, Canada / Thomas R. Nardin, Howard R. Feldman, and B. Joan Carter
  • Depositional setting and oil sands reservoir characterization of giant longitudinal sandbars at Ells River : marginal marine facies of the McMurray Formation, Northern Alberta Basin, Canada / Paul L. Broughton
  • Advanced seismic-stratigraphic imaging of depositional elements in a Lower Cretaceous (Mannville) heavy oil reservoir, west-central Saskatchewan, Canada / Sabrina E. Sarzalejo Silva and Bruce S. Hart
  • Oil-saturated Mississippian-Pennsylvanian sandstones of south-central Kentucky / Michael T. May
  • Overview of heavy oil, seeps, and oil (tar) sands, California / Frances J. Hein
  • Unconventional oil resources of the Uinta Basin, Utah / Steven Schamel
  • Integrated reservoir description of the Ugnu heavy oil accumulation, North Slope, Alaska / Erik Hulm, Greg Bernaski, Boris Kostic, Steve Lowe, and Rick Matson
  • Overview of natural bitumen fields of the Siberian platform, Olenek Uplift, Eastern Siberia, Russia / Vladimir A. Kashirtsev and Frances J. Hein
  • Multiple-scale geologic models for heavy oil reservoir characterization / Clayton V. Deutsch
  • Modeling of a tide-influenced point-bar heterogeneity distribution and impacts on steam-assisted gravity drainage production : example from Steepbank River, McMurray Formation, Canada / Geoffray Musial, Richard Labourdette, Jessica Franco, Jean-Yves Reynaud
  • Reservoir modeling by constraining stochastic simulation to deterministically interpreted three-dimensional geobodies : case study from Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage project, northeast Alberta, Canada / Milovan Fustic, David Thurston, Adal Al-Dliwe, Dale A. Leckie, and Dany Cadiou
  • Spectral decomposition in a heavy oil and bitumen sand reservoir / Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines
  • Fundamentals of heat transport at the edge of steam chambers in cyclic steam stimulation and steam-assisted gravity drainage / Ian D. Gates, Marya Cokar, and Michael S. Kallos
  • Integration of steam-assisted gravity drainage fundamentals with reservoir characterization to optimize production / Rudy Strobl
  • Screening criteria and technology sequencing for in-situ viscous oil production / Maurice B. Dusseault
  • New progress and technological challenges in the integral development of the Faja Petrolifera del Orinoco, Venezuela / Teófilo Villarroel, Adriana Zambrano, and Roland Garcia
  • Trading water for oil : tailings management and water use in surface-mined oil sands / Randy Mikula
  • Potential role of microbial biofilms in oil sands tailings management / Victoria Kostenko and Robert John Martinuzzi
  • Geothermal energy as a source of heat for oil sands processing in northern Alberta, Canada / Jacek Majorowicz, Martyn Unsworth, Tom Chacko, Allan Gray, Larry Heaman, David K. Potter, Douglas R. Schmitt, and Tayfun Babadagli
  • Joslyn Creek steam-assisted gravity drainage : geologic considerations related to a surface steam release incident, Athabasca oil sands area, northeastern Alberta, Canada / Frances J. Hein and Brent Fairgrieve .