Downhole heavy crude oil hydroprocessing

Applied Catalysis A: General

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Weissman, Jeffrey G ^a,b   Kessler, Richard V ^a  

^a R and D Department   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Downhole processing; Heavy crude oil upgrading; In situ processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012275619     PISSN: 0926860X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-860X(96)00003-8     Document Type: Article

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