Matrix Acid Stimulation - A Review of the State-Of-The-Art

SPE - European Formation Damage Conference, Proceedings, EFDC

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Rae, Phil ^a   Di Lullo, Gino ^a  

^a BJ SERVICES COMPANY

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