HEAVY OIL HEATS UP

摘要

For more than a year now,energy companies have been shoring up their oil positions to ride out weak natural gas prices.And in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin(WCSB),a lot of those reserves are in heavy oil,so the going concern is finding better ways to get it to surface.Bill McFarlane,president of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association,which also represents oilsands interests,says there are really only two conventional heavy oil areas in Alberta:Lloydminster and Peace River.Both are moving towards solvent-based and thermal enhanced oil recovery(EOR)methods.