Identifying the potential upside of hydrocarbon saturation from electric logs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-67

  Worthington, Paul F ^a,b  

^a Gaffney Cline and Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROPHYSICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; ROCKS; WELL LOGGING;

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERS; FORMATION-WATER SALINITY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCARBON SATURATION; PETROPHYSICAL EVALUATIONS; PETROPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR ROCK;

EID: 62749095230     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/103075-pa     Document Type: Article

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