成功的稠油油藏管理实践建立在分析和准确预测油藏随时间变化的行为的基础上。鉴于稠油油藏的复杂性质，包括地质力学特性和流体流动行为，需要开发一种可重复的技术，能够在可接受的精度范围内解释这些复杂性。整篇论文的目的是对稠油油藏管理开发的最新技术和工作流程进行全面审查，可作为行业的单一参考来源。
由于其综合性，整篇论文的大部分内容都致力于回顾稠油油藏的特征及其开采，包括热法和非热法以及相关文献。本概要将集中于作者对管理这些油藏的工作流程的回顾以及他们所回顾的方法的现场应用。
油藏管理是一个多学科领域，涉及油藏工程、地质工程和岩石物理学等地球科学的详细分析。
Successful heavy oil reservoir management practices are built on analyzing and accurately predicting reservoir behavior over time. Given the complex nature of heavy oil reservoirs, including geomechanical properties and fluid-flow behavior, a need exists to develop a repeatable technique that can account for these complexities within an acceptable margin of accuracy. The objective of the complete paper is to conduct a comprehensive review of recent technologies and work flows developed for heavy oil reservoir management that can be used as a single source of reference for the industry.
Because of its comprehensive nature, much of the complete paper is dedicated to a review of the characteristics of heavy oil reservoirs and their exploitation, including thermal and nonthermal methods and the literature dedicated thereto. This synopsis will concentrate on the authors’ reviews of work flows to manage these reservoirs and field applications of the methodologies they review.
Reservoir management is a multidisciplinary field involving detailed analysis of geosciences such as reservoir engineering, geological engineering, and petrophysics.
