Discrimination of effective from ineffective porosity in heterogeneous Cretaceous carbonates, Al Ghubar field, Oman

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1509-1529

  Smith, Langhorne B ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^b   Masaferro, Jose Luis ^c   Al Dhahab, Salah ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; POROSITY; SEPARATION;

GRAINSTONE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AL GHUBAR OIL FIELD; OMAN;

EID: 0141993444     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/041703200180     Document Type: Article

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