Simulation of Cold Production in Heavy-Oil Reservoirs: Wormhole Dynamics

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-117

  Tremblay, Bernard ^a   Sedgwick, George ^a   Forshner, Ken ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; SAND; WELL PERFORATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COLD PRODUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY X RAY SCANNERS; WORMHOLE DYNAMICS;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0031142264     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/35387-PA     Document Type: Article

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