Reservoir modelling and simulation of Lajas Formation outcrops (Argentina) to constrain tidal reservoirs of the Halten Terrace (Norway)

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-46

  Brandsæter, Inge ^a   McIlroy, Duncan ^b   Lia, Oddvar ^a   Ringrose, Philip ^a   Næss, Arve ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Sedimentology/Internet Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Outcrop analogues; Reservoir modelling; Streamline simulation; Tidal deltaic facies

Indexed keywords

RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARGENTINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14844355698     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079303-611     Document Type: Article

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