Miscibility variation in compositionally grading reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Høier, Lars ^a   Whitson, Curtis H ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Department of Linguistics   (United States)

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