A large independent crude oil and natural gas producer with significant interests in the Clearwater Formation in Northern Alberta was operating wells initially established in the late 1990s using CHOPS (Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand). The horizontal sections of the wells extended beyond 2,400 meters and each well was completed with 0.250-in. straight slotted liners. As the profile of the well formation changed over time, there was an increase in the level of water production and the operator turned to polymer flooding as its primary Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) strategy.

A major oil sands operator located in Calgary, AB approached RGL with evidence of a SAGD producer well showing uncharacteristically low production rates. 

A Joint Venture Company located in the Orinoco Oil Belt—East Venezuela, has been exploiting and developing an extra-heavy oil field since 1999 using a production scheme based on natural depletion, or “cold production”.