Water-alternating-gas pilot in the largest oil field in Argentina: Chihuido de la Sierra Negra, Neuquen Basin

Proceedings of the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1411-1419

  Righi, Esteban Fernandez ^a   Pascual, Mario ^b  

^a Shell International Exploration and Production

^b Repsol YPF ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCALED LABORATORY TESTS; WATER-ALTERNATING GAS (WAG) INJECTION;

GASES; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SOLUBILITY; VISCOSITY;

OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34547885770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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