Viscosity predictions of Kuwaiti heavy crudes at elevated temperatures

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 447-464

  Alomair, Osamah ^a   Elsharkawy, Adel ^a   Alkandari, Hassan ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; API GRAVITIES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; HEAVY CRUDES; HEAVY OIL; KUWAITI OIL FIELDS; NEW CORRELATIONS; OIL VISCOSITY; PRODUCTION FORECASTING; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; THERMAL RECOVERY; VISCOSITY PREDICTION;

CRUDE OIL; EXHIBITIONS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84860198142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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