A new semi-analytical modeling of steam-assisted gravity drainage in heavy oil reservoirs

Theoretical studies on the gravity drainage of heavy oil during in‐situ steam heating

R.M. Butler, G. S. McNab, Hing Y. Lo · The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering · 1981 · 454 citations

Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Heavy Oil Recovery +16

The Gravity Drainage of Steam-heated Heavy Oil to Parallel Horizontal Wells

R.M. Butler, D.J. Stephens · Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology · 1981 · 423 citations

Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Heat Transfer +16

SAGD Comes of AGE!

R.M. Butler · Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology · 1998 · 169 citations

Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Resource Economics +10

Surrogate modeling-based optimization of SAGD processes

Néstor V. Queipo, Javier V. Goicochea, Salvador Pintos · Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · 2002 · 90 citations

Engineering, Mathematics, Petroleum Engineering +17

On the Difficult Birth of SAGD

Neil Edmunds · Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology · 1999 · 73 citations

Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir Characterization +10