Vertical permeability estimation in heterolithic tidal deltaic sandstones

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-36

  Ringrose, Philip ^a   Nordahl, Kjetil ^a   Wen, Renjun ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Geomodeling Technology Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Heterolithic sandstone; Permeability; Reservoir characterization; Tidal deltas

Indexed keywords

PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SANDSTONE;

EID: 14844361004     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079303-614     Document Type: Article

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