Predicting Interwell Heterogeneity in Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoirs: Effects of Progressive Architecture Variation Through a Depositional Cycle from Outcrop and Subsurface Observations

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 71, 1998, Pages 57-72

  Knox, Paul R ^a   Barton, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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

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