Synthetic mudstone compaction trends and their use in pore pressure prediction

First Break

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 43-51

  Mondol, Nazmul Haque ^a   Fawad, Manzar ^a   Jahren, Jens ^a   Bjørlykke, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUDSTONE; OVERPRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; PREDICTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57049137224     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1365-2397.2008018     Document Type: Article

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