New NMR approach evaluates tight gas sand reservoirs

Oil and Gas Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 46-52

  Hamada, Gharib M ^a   Abu Shanab, Mahmoud Mohamed Anwar ^b   Oraby, Moustafa E ^c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Shell Egypt Co   (Egypt)

^c Halliburton Service in the Middle East and Asia Pacific Areas   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

GAS CONDENSATE; GAS FIELD; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MESOZOIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 45549109930     PISSN: 00301388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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