Effective EOR decision strategies with limited data: Field cases demonstration

SPE - DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 395-410

  Manrique, Eduardo ^a   Izadi, Mehdi ^a   Kitchen, Curtis ^a,b   Alvarado, Vladimir ^a,c  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b Norwest Questa Engineering

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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