Sulige field in the Ordos Basin: Geological setting, field discovery and tight gas reservoirs

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 387-400

  Yang, Hua ^a   Fu, Jinhua ^a   Wei, Xinshan ^a   Liu, Xinshe ^a  

^a PETROCHINA CHANGQING OILFIELD COMPANY   (China)

Author keywords

Gas in coal bearing strata; Lithologic gas reservoir; Ordos Basin; Sulige gas field; Tight gas reservoir

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FRACTURING; COAL-BEARING STRATA; MUDSTONES; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIR;

CORE DRILLING; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); LITHOLOGY; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; RESERVES TO PRODUCTION RATIO; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CARBONIFEROUS; DRILLING; GAS FIELD; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LITHOLOGY; MUDSTONE; NATURAL GAS; PERMIAN; RESERVOIR ROCK; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ORDOS BASIN;

EID: 44649118619     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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