Quartz cement volumes across oil-water contacts in oil fields from petrography and wireline logs: preliminary results from the Magnus Field, Northern North Sea

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 136, Issue , 1998, Pages 327-339

  Barclay, S A ^a   Worden, R H ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CEMENTATION; OIL FIELD; PERMEABILITY; PETROGRAPHY; QUARTZ;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0032317212     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.136.01.27     Document Type: Article

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