Treatment of oil-based drilling waste using supercritical carbon dioxide

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 26-29

  Street, C G ^a   Guigard, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DRILLING FLUIDS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HYDROCARBONS; INFILL DRILLING; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DRILLING OPERATION; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; EXTRACTION PROCESS; OIL-BASED DRILLING FLUID; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDES; TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL;

SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

EID: 67650616621     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/09-06-26-TN     Document Type: Article

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