Key words: Yaregskoye field, heavy oil, thermal-mining development, development systems, improvement of thermal-mining technology, oil recovery factor.
The experience of thermal-mining development of Yaregskoye field is considered. It is shown that improvement of such a development system allows significantly to reduce heavy oil recovery costs and to bring them to the production level of light oil in the future. It is noted that mining way of oil recovery can be applied at the light oil fields with the exhausted reservoir energy and a low gas-oil ratio.
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