The Khaviz Anticline: An outcrop analogue to giant fractured Asmari Formation reservoirs in SW Iran

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 270, Issue , 2007, Pages 23-42

  Wennberg, O P ^a   Azizzadeh, M ^b   Aqrawi, A A M ^a   Blanc, E ^c   Brockbank, P ^a   Lyslo, K B ^a   Pickard, N ^d   Salem, L D ^a   Svana T ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

^c CASP   (United Kingdom)

^d CAMBRIDGE CARBONATES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MIOCENE; OIL FIELD; OLIGOCENE; OUTCROP; PERMEABILITY; SEISMICITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; DEZFUL; EURASIA; IRAN; KHUZESTAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33947409512     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.270.01.02     Document Type: Article

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