Shale porosities from well logs on Haltenbanken (offshore mid-Norway) show no influence of overpressuring

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 70, 1998, Pages 65-85

  Hermanrud, C ^a   Wensaas, L ^a   Teige, G M G ^a   Nordgard Bolas H M ^a   Hansen, S ^a   Vik, E ^a,b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVERPRESSURE; POROSITY; SHALE; WELL LOGGING;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0032460741     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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