Oil recovery from Athabasca tar sand by miscible-thermal methods

Annual Technical Meeting, PETSOC ATM 1972

Volumn , Issue , 1972, Pages

  Hernandez, Orlando E ^a   Farouq Ali, S M ^b  

^a Creole Petroleum Corporation ^*  (Venezuela)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; NAPHTHAS; OIL SANDS; OIL WELL FLOODING; RECYCLING; SOLVENTS; STEAM; TAR;

ADVANCE RATES; ATHABASCA; MISCIBLE THERMALS; OIL RECOVERIES; PORE VOLUME; SOLVENT INJECTION; STEAM INJECTION; VOLATILE SOLVENTS;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 85043862103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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