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Research Article

Statistical methods for reservoir fluid composition distribution analysis

Opeyemi Akinyedea Department of Petroleum Engineering, African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, NigeriaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Yang Gengb Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
,
Alpheus Igbokoyia Department of Petroleum Engineering, African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, Nigeria
&
Alfred Soboyejob Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Pages 405-417 | Received 01 Feb 2018, Accepted 17 Aug 2018, Published online: 01 Oct 2018

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