Modeling the growth in gas reserves from known fields

Energy Journal

Volumn 30, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE 1, 2009, Pages 201-213

  Forbes, Kevin F ^a   Zampelli, Ernest M ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 77749297997     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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