Saskatchewan THAI demonstration test slated

    Nov. 21, 2008
    Petrobank and True Energy Trust announced plans to demonstrate the effectiveness of toe-to-heel air injection to recover conventional heavy oil from a +10-m thick Mannville channel reservoir in Kerrobert field, Sask.

    Guntis Moritis
    Production Editor

    HOUSTON, Nov. 21 -- Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. and True Energy Trust, both of Calgary, announced plans to demonstrate the effectiveness of toe-to-heel air injection (THAI) to recover conventional heavy oil from a +10-m thick Mannville channel reservoir in Kerrobert field, Saskatchewan. The initial test will involve two wells.

    THAI is an in-situ combustion process, patented by Petrobank, that combines a horizontal producing well with a vertical air-injection well placed at the toe.

    Since 2006, Petrobank in its Whitesands project has been testing the THAI process in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta under a variety of operating conditions.

    Contact Guntis Moritis at [email protected].

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