Translating outcrop data to flow models, with applications to the Ferron sandstone

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-350

  White, Christopher D ^b   Barton, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODEL; SANDSTONE;

FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LITHOLOGY; MODEL; SANDSTONE;

EID: 0032750865     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/57482-PA     Document Type: Article

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