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Original Articles

Optimization of Gas Allocation to a Group of Wells in Gas Lift in One of the Iranian Oil Fields Using an Efficient Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (HGA)

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Pages 949-959 | Received 19 Sep 2010, Accepted 22 Oct 2010, Published online: 08 Apr 2013

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