Is bitumen a petroleum reserve?

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1949-1955

  Etherington, John R ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^b  

^a SPE ^*

^b CNOOC LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HYDROCARBONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BITUMEN; ECONOMIC CHALLENGES; PETROLEUM RESERVE; ROCK MINING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 22044431875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/90242-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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