Observations of heavy oil primary production mechanisms from long core depletion experiments

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2006, CIPC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Goodarzi, N N ^a   Kantzas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUDE OIL; DIGITAL STORAGE; GASOLINE;

CT SCANNERS; FIELD SCALE; GLASS BEAD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE TRANSIENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOLUTION GAS DRIVE;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 85086948933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2006-086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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