Petrophysical characterization of a heterolithic tidal reservoir interval using a process-based modelling tool

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-28

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

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c Geomodeling Technology Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterolithic; Permeability; Petrophysics; Porosity; Sandstone

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC;

EID: 14844366866     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079303-613     Document Type: Article

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