Visual experimental study of the factors affecting the stability of foamy oil flow

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1449-1458

  Wu, X ^a   Zhao, R ^a   Wang, R ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

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

Author keywords

depletion rate; foamy oil; gas oil ratio; oil viscosity; pseudo bubble point pressure; temperature; visual experiment

Indexed keywords

DEPLETION RATE; FOAMY OIL; GAS OIL RATIOS; OIL VISCOSITY; PSEUDO-BUBBLE-POINT PRESSURE; VISUAL EXPERIMENTS;

COALESCENCE; CRUDE OIL; EXPERIMENTS; GASES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY; VISUALIZATION;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 79958846372     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916466.2011.557682     Document Type: Article

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