Gas- and liquid-phase relative permeabilities for cold production from heavy-oil reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 70-80

  Tang, Guo Qing ^a   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; HEAVY OIL; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0038353621     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/83667-PA     Document Type: Article

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