Enhanced vapor extraction through foamy-oil flow

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Heavy Oil Conference Canada 2013

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1806-1821

  Jia, Xinfeng ^a   Jiang, Tao ^a   Zeng, Fanhua ^a   Gu, Yongan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foamy oil flow; Heavy oil; Vapor extraction

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FOAMY-OIL FLOW; HEAVY OIL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MASS-TRANSFER PROCESS; OIL-PRODUCTION RATES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; VAPOR EXTRACTION;

CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXTRACTION; MASS TRANSFER; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; RECOVERY; SOLVENTS; VAPORS; VISCOSITY;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 84883395415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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