Performance of drainage experiments with Orinoco belt heavy oil in a long laboratory core in simulated reservoir conditions

SPE Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 474-479

  Wang, Ruihe ^a   Qin, Jishun ^a   Chen, Zhangxin ^b   Zhao, Ming ^c  

^a China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELTS; CRUDE OIL; GAS INDUSTRY; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; FIELD DEVELOPMENT PLANS; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; PRODUCTION RATES; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SOLUTION GAS DRIVE; UNUSUAL BEHAVIORS;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 58149504030     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/104377-PA     Document Type: Article

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