Improving recovery from mature oil fields producing from carbonate reservoirs: Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation, Womack Hill field (eastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A.)

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1629-1651

  Mancini, Ernest A ^a   Blasingame, Thomas A ^b   Archer, Rosalind ^c   Panetta, Brian J ^a   Llinás, Juan Carlos ^a   Haynes, Charles D ^d   Benson, D Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d The University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; POROSITY;

INFILL WELLS; POROSITY CYCLES; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

OIL FIELDS;

CARBONATE ROCK; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; JURASSIC; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

ALABAMA; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11144339395     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/06210404037     Document Type: Article

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