Performances of different recovery methods for Orinoco belt heavy oil after solution gas drive

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3499-3507

  Lu, Teng ^a   Li, Zhaomin ^a   Li, Songyan ^a   Li, Binfei ^a   Liu, Shangqi ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b PetroChina   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROMODEL TESTS; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SOLUTION GAS DRIVE; SURFACTANT FLOODING; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; VISCOUS FINGERING;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CRUDE OIL; DROPS; EMULSIFICATION; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TESTING;

FLOODS;

EID: 84879376124     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef400511s     Document Type: Article

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