Fundamental reservoir engineering principles explain lenses of shoreline residual oil twenty years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas E and P Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 198-219

  Pope, Gary ^a   Gordon, Kim ^b   Bragg, Jim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CPES Inc   (United States)

^c Creative Petroleum Solutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; OIL SPILLS; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON (PAH); PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 79960257249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/141809-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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