This paper is an excursion report to get the information of steam injection operations to recover the heavy oil from deep formations in Riaohe oil field. Riaohe oil field is located in the sourthern district of north-eastern China, surrounded by the area from west side of Shenyang to Bohei along the Riaohe river. The central office of this oil firld is very convenient to be able to arrive within 4 hour drive through the high way from Luda.
We discussed the steam injection and recovery processing tecnology with chinese researchers of the oil field during the excursion.
In this paper, general geology of Riaohe oil field was descrived. Heavy oil recovery operations of two oil fields, Gaosheng and Shugang, were introduced, specially on reservoir and fluid properties, steam injection well completion, injection water preparation, control of generated steam quality and production facilities etc..
