Predicting well productivity from grain size analysis and logging while drilling

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Hogg, Andrew J C ^a   Mitchell, Alan W ^a,b   Young, Susan ^a,c  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Latinoamericana de Seguros Building ^*  (Colombia)

^c IOP Publishing Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clastic oil reservoir; Fluvial sandstones; Permeability; Triassic; Wessex basin

Indexed keywords

DENSITY LOGGING; GRAIN SIZE; LOGGING WHILE DRILLING; PERMEABILITY; SANDSTONE; TRIASSIC;

UK, ENGLAND, DORSET, WYTCH FARM FIELD;

EID: 0029749862     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.2.1.1     Document Type: Article

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