New and effective foam flooding to recover oil in heterogeneous reservoir

SPE - DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Zhang, Yunxiang ^a   Yue, Xiangan ^a   Dong, Jianxia ^b   Yu, Liu ^c  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Daqing Petroleum Administrative Bureau   (China)

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EID: 85085400778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/59367-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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