A novel technique for treating asphaltene deposition using laser technology

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference 2001, OGR 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Zekri, Abdulrazag Y ^a   Shedid, Shedid A ^a   Alkashef, Hassan ^b  

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

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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