Enhancing the performance of viscoelastic surfactant fluids using nanoparticles

75th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2013 Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2013: Changing Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 840-854

  Gurluk, Merve R ^a   Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a   Crews, James B ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAKER HUGHES   (United States)

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