Optimizing heavy oil recoveryDOE-funded research uses state-of-the-art laboratory techniques to assess the best ways to recover North Slope’s heavy oil By Alan Bailey Petroleum News Staff Writer
In the past few years extended horizontal drilling techniques have made North Slope heavy oil pools such as Schrader Bluff and West Sak economic. And enhanced recovery techniques using injected fluids to drive the viscous oil from reservoir pores have further improved oil recovery.
But even with the....
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Simulated oil recovery State-of-the-art computer simulation Using more gas beneficial
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