Qatar's oil and gasfields: A review

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 417-436

  Al Siddiqi, A ^a   Dawe, R A ^b,c  

^a QATAR PETROLEUM   (Qatar)

^b College of Engineering Qatar University ^*  (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; NATURAL GAS FIELDS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

NON-ASSOCIATED GAS RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

GAS FIELD; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; OIL FIELD;

QATAR;

EID: 0033398120     PISSN: 01416421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.1999.tb00477.x     Document Type: Review

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