Hydrocarbon potential of the Mississippian carbonate platform, Bechar basin, Algerian Sahara

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 266-287

  Madi, Achour ^a,b   Savard, Martine M ^c   Bourque, Pierre André ^a   Guoxiang, Chi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRINOIDS; DIAGENESIS; OOIDS;

CARBONATE MINERALS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POROSITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

BASIN ANALYSIS; DIAGENESIS; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; MISSISSIPPIAN; POROSITY; VISEAN;

ALGERIA;

EID: 0034121550     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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