Dwayne Gurski, Cenovus Energy Inc.

My name is Dwayne Gurski. I'm the Operations Field Coordinator at Cenovus, Christina Lake. We at Cenovus endeavor to look for new ideas and new approaches. One of those is the Wedge Well technology that we are using. We're sitting on a production pad that produces heavy oil. The spacing on these production wells is roughly 100 metres and over a period of time, these wells will grow into one another, overlap. Once they do that, there is a wedge left in between those wells. The wedge well is a well that we will drill in that wedge with a pump to bring that oil to surface. Less steam, less water to make the steam, less emissions to produce the steam and a smaller footprint drilling on existing well pads. It's a plus all the way around.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cenovus
• oilsands
• tarsands
• wedge wells
• oil wells
• steam
• water

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