Experimental study on foamy oil flow in porous media with orinoco belt heavy oil

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6332-6342

  Li, Songyan ^a   Li, Zhaomin ^a   Lu, Teng ^a   Li, Binfei ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE DEFORMATION; BUBBLE DIVISION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HEAVY OIL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT OIL; MICRO-FLOW; MICROSCOPIC VISUALIZATION; OIL FLOW; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; PHYSICAL SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; PRESSURE DEPLETION; RATE INCREASE; SITE APPLICATION; SOLUTION GAS DRIVE; STABLE FOAMS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; VENEZUELA;

EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; POROUS MATERIALS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84867637271     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef301268u     Document Type: Article

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