NMR petrophysical predictions on digitized core images

Petrophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 202-221

  Arns, C H ^a   Sheppard, A P ^a   Sok, R M ^a   Knackstedt, M A ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core imaging; Micro computed tomography; NMR; Permeability; Petrophysical relationships; Reservoir properties

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PORE SIZE; ROCKS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CORE IMAGING; PETROPHYSICAL PREDICTIONS; RESERVOIR CORES; RESERVOIR PROPERTIES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250770989     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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