Porosity partitioning and permeability quantification in vuggy carbonates using wireline logs, Permian Basin, West Texas

Petrophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-22

  Xu, Chunming ^a   Russell, Duffy ^b   Gournay, Jonas ^c   Richter, Pete ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution electrofacies; Permeability estimation; Permian Basin; Thief zone identification; Vuggy carbonates

Indexed keywords

HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTROFACIES; PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION; PERMIAN BASIN; THIEF-ZONE IDENTIFICATION; VUGGY CARBONATES;

BOREHOLES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM ANALYSIS; POROSITY;

CARBONATES;

EID: 32844467780     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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