Rock-property and seismic-attribute analysis of a chert reservoir in the Devonian Thirty-one Formation, west Texas, U.S.A.

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Fu, Dongjun ^a   Sullivan, E Charlotte ^a   Marfurt, Kurt J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Geophysical techniques; Petroleum; Porosity; Rocks; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPOROSITY; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

GASSMANN FLUID-SUBSTITUTION EQUATION; SEISMIC-ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CHERT; DEVONIAN; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; POROSITY; ROCK PROPERTY; SEISMIC WAVE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748863738     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2335636     Document Type: Article

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