An experimental study of drag reduction of polymer solutions in coiled tubing

SPE - ICoTA (International Coiled Tubing Association) Coiled Tubing Roundtable

Volumn 2001, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Shah, Subhash N ^a   Zhou, Y ^b  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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