Seven-spot steam injection experiments in heavy oil reservoirs having a bottom water zone

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1037-1046

  Bagci, Suat ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LIMESTONE; MIXTURES; MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STEAM; WATER WELLS; WELL FLOODING;

CRUSHED LIMESTONE; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; STEAM INJECTION EXPERIMENTS; STEAM-OIL RATIO; WATER ZONE; WELL CONFIGURATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 20544473055     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef0400870     Document Type: Article

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