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Nexen’s Bitumen Project

 
Bob Batt, Sr. Reservoir Engineer

Nexen Canada Ltd.

ABSTRACT:

The Long Lake Project is the first field integration of bitumen recovery and upgrading. It is a unique solution to three fundamental problems which afflict thermal recovery operations: widely fluctuating heavy oil differentials, high fuel cost for steam generation and reliance on diluent to transport the product to market. The Long Lake project will produce a light sweet synthetic crude from Athabasca bitumen utilizing bottoms from the upgrader as the primary source of upgrader hydrogen and SAGD fuel.  The project is currently in the regulatory review stage. Construction of a 70,000 bpd SAGD facility and a 70,000 bpd upgrader is planned to commence in late 2003 with production in 2006.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY:

Bob Batt is currently Manager of Reservoir Engineering for Nexen's Synthetic Crude Business Unit. He has spent 22 years in the oil and gas industry primarily in reservoir engineering. Bob has been with Nexen for the past 12 years primarily working in heavy oil reservoir engineering. Over the past four years he has worked on Nexen's thermal operations and is currently responsible for all reservoir and production engineering aspects of Nexen's Long Lake SAGD project. He received a B.Sc. from Memorial University in 1978 and a B.Eng. from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1980. He is a registered professional engineer in Alberta and is a member of CIM, SPE and CHOA.