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Tidally influenced meandering river deposits of the Cretaceous middle McMurray Formation are characterized by rapid vertical and lateral lithological and associated reservoir property changes. Within the reservoir, water may occur below, above, and in the middle of the bitumen column, and there may be multiple gas intervals. Although conceptual understanding about the depositional environment and its control on distribution of different fluids (bitumen, water, and gas) is documented in literature, integration of these concepts into reservoir models and history matching through flow simulation is lacking. Thus, even in areas with closely spaced wells (as much as several hundred meters apart), geostatistical modeling approaches show high degrees of randomness.