In Situ Upgrading of Heavy Oil in a Solvent-Based Heavy Oil Recovery Process

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2005, CIPC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Luo, P ^a   Yang, C ^a   Tharanivasan, A K ^a   Gu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENES; BUTANE; CARBON; CRUDE OIL; DISSOLUTION; GASOLINE; MIXTURES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROPANE; SOLVENTS; VISCOSITY;

ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; CARBON NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY PROCESS; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SOLVENT CONCENTRATION;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 85088406523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2005-098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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