Highlighting heavy oil

Oilfield Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 34-53

  Alboudwarej, Hussein ^a   Felix, Joao ^a   Taylor, Shawn ^a   Badry, Rob ^a   Bremner, Chad ^a   Brough, Brent ^a   Skeates, Craig ^a   Baker, Andy ^a   Palmer, Daniel ^a   Pattison, Katherine ^a   Beshry, Mohamed ^b   Krawchuk, Paul ^b   Brown, George ^a   Calvo, Rodrigo ^a   Triana, Jesus Alberto Canas ^a   Hathcock, Roy ^c   Koerner, Kyle ^c   Hughes, Trevor ^a   Kundu, Dibyatanu ^a   De Cárdenas, Jorge López ^a   West, Chris ^d   more..

^a Total E and P Canada ^*

^b TOTAL   (France)

^c Devon Energy   (United States)

^d BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID ANALYSIS; HEAVY-OIL RESERVOIRS; OIL COMPANIES;

COST ACCOUNTING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 33750047195     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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