o SAGD Heat Transfer
o Different temperature models and their consideration with respect to conduction and convection.
o Butler Temperature Model
o Sharma Gates Convection Model
o Irani and Ghannadi Convection Model
o Butler Production Model
o Derivation of oil production using Butler
o Assumptions in “Original Butler model”
o TANDRAIN and LINDRAIN models
o Butler Plateau Model
o Butler Ramp-up Model
o Discussion on Steam Interface Velocity in “Original Butler model”, TANDRAIN and LINDRAIN models, and its comparison to field data.
o m exponent factor discussion
o SOR Discussion: Heat conservation concept and the basis of different SOR analytical models will be presented
o Reis SOR Model
o Edmunds and Peterson (2007)
o Miura and Wang (2012) Model

o Introduction to thermodynamics and pressure-volume-temperature (PVT)
o Clausius-Clapeyron Equation, Dalton’s law, Henry’s Law and Raoult’s law
o Numerical solution to practical examples such as temperature reduction in chamber
due to NCG injection, and temperature reduction at Azeotropic point in ES-SAGD process.
o Pure Solvent Modelling: VAPEX and Nsolv
o Butler-Mokrys and Dunn-Nenniger-Rajan models and comparison to physical models
o onset of asphaltene precipitation
o Steam-Solvent Numerical and Analytical Modelling
o Gupta-Gittins and Rabiei–Harding–Abedi models
o Production Challenges in Solvent Operation
o Liquid-pool model and concept
o Steam trap control for Nsolv