Simulation studies of THAI process

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2000, CIPC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Greaves, M ^a   Xia, T X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COKE; COMBUSTION; GASOLINE; HORIZONTAL WELLS;

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; COMBUSTION SIMULATIONS; CRACKING REACTIONS; HORIZONTAL PRODUCER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDIES; PHYSICAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SIMULATION STUDIES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 85086058903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2000-084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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