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SPE/Petroleum Society of CIM/CHOA 78981 Improving Project Performance in a Heavy Oil Horizontal Well Project in the San Joaquin Valley, California Veronica J. Cline/ChevronTexaco Exploration Production Company and Michael Basham/ChevronTexaco Exploration and Production Technology Company Copyright 2002, SPE/PS-CIM/CHOA International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil stimulation of the horizontal wells before placing them on Symposium and International Horizontal Well Technology Conference. production, maximizing lift, and the use of fiber-optic This paper was prepared for presentation at the 2002 SPE International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium and International Horizontal Well Technology Conference held in temperature surveys to understand heat distribution in and Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 4–7 November 2002. near the lateral. Another change later identified before drilling This paper was selected for presentation by the ITOHOS/ICHWT Program Committee the next set of horizontal wells were to utilize 3-D well path following review of information contained in an abstract submitted by the author(s). Contents of the paper, as presented, have not been reviewed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the planning tools to iterate plans in real time with the directional Petroleum Society of CIM, or CHOA and are subject to correction by the author(s). The drilling contractor to meet geologic and anti-collision material, as presented, does not necessarily reflect any position of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Petroleum Society of CIM, or C