Multiple generations of high salinity formation water in the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone: Wytch Farm oilfield, onshore UK

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 455-475

  Worden, R H ^a   Manning, D A C ^b   Bottrell, S H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELDS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

DENSITY STRATIFICATION; METEORIC WATERS; PRODUCTION DATA; TRIASSIC SHERWOOD SANDSTONE;

SANDSTONE;

FORMATION WATER; OIL FIELD; SALINITY; TRIASSIC;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WYTCH FARM;

EID: 33644558046     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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