Digital core laboratory: Petrophysical analysis from 3D imaging of reservoir core fragments

Petrophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 260-277

  Arns, C H ^a   Bauget, F ^a   Ghous, A ^b   Sakellariou, A ^a   Senden, T J ^a   Sheppard, A P ^a   Sok, R M ^a   Pinczewski, W V ^b   Kelly, J C ^c   Knackstedt, M A ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core imaging; Micro computed tomography; Petrophysical relationships; Reservoir properties

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORE PLUGS; MACHINED FRAGMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; X RAY MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 24344478064     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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