Interpretation of microbial oil recovery from laboratory experiments

13th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 158-165

  Kowalewski, E ^a   Rueslatten I ^a   Gilje, E ^a   Sunde, E ^a   Bodtker G ^a   Lillebe, B L P ^a   Torsvik, T ^a   Stensen, J A ^a   Bjorkvik B ^b   Strand, K A ^c  

^a StatoilASA ^*  (Norway)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL SURFACTANTS; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; OIL-DEGRADING BACTERIA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA;

EID: 84878082784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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