Hamaca: Solution gas drive recovery in a heavy Oil reservoir, experimental results

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1997-August, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Treinen, R J ^a   Ring, W W ^b   Spence, A P ^b   De Mirabal, M ^c   Huerta, M ^d  

^a Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America   (United States)

^b Arco Exploration and Production Technology   (United States)

^c SPE   (United States)

^d Intevep SA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF LIQUIDS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUDE OIL; DIGITAL STORAGE; DRAINAGE; EXPANSION; FLOW OF GASES; GASES; GASOLINE; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SAND; SCANNING;

CRITICAL GAS SATURATION; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FIELD PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; ORINOCO HEAVY-OIL BELTS; PRODUCTION MECHANISMS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS;

COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES;

EID: 84940875485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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