Swelling/extraction test of Russian reservoir heavy oil by liquid carbon dioxide

The mass transfer between heavy oil and liquid carbon dioxide and the changes of the heavy phase (mixture of heavy oil and CO2) and light phase (pure CO2) in the mixture were tested in lab with heavy oil samples from Russia. The experimental results showed that the heavy oil hardly expanded when the...

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Main Authors: A A LOBANOV, K A SHHEKOLDIN, I A STRUCHKOV, M A ZVONKOV, M V HLAN, E J PUSTOVA, V A KOVALENKO, A B ZOLOTUKHIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2018-10-01
Series:Petroleum Exploration and Development
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876380418300958