Release Date
Effective Date
Rescinded February 8, 2024
Purpose of this Directive
This directive provides application requirements (in addition to those in Draft Directive 023: Oil Sands Project Applications) for new scheme approvals and amendments to existing scheme approvals for steam-assisted gravity drainage projects within a specific area of shallow bitumen deposits (see figure 1 in this directive).
These additional application requirements relate to assessment of caprock integrity for containment of injected steam and heated reservoir fluids within the target reservoir. This directive does not deal with the wellbore aspects of fluid containment since these are addressed in
