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This work investigates the existence and importance of the micro bubbles in heavy oil subjected to solution–gas drive. The term ‘micro bubble’ will be used to refer to the free-gas phase that flows with the oil, no faster and no slower. Two types of experiments are reported here; slow and fast experiments. These experiments were previously reported by Sheikha and Pooladi-Darvish (SPE Res Eval Eng...