How depositional texture and diagenesis control petrophysical and elastic properties of samples from five North Sea chalk fields

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-95

  Fabricius, Ida L ^a   Røgen, Birte ^a   Gommesen, Lars ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chalk; Diagenesis; North Sea; Texture

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HYDROCARBONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLOGY; POISSON RATIO; POROSITY; TEXTURES;

CAPILLARITY; CHALK; CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; ELASTIC PROPERTY; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; PALEOGENE; PERMEABILITY; PETROLOGY; POISSON RATIO; POROSITY; SOURCE ROCK; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEXTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33847381190     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-707     Document Type: Article

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