Poroperm prediction for wildcat exploration prospects: Miocene Epoch, Southern Red Sea

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 69, 1997, Pages 163-176

  Gluyas, Jon G ^a,b,c   Witton, Trevor ^a,b,c  

^a Edificio Centra Seguros de Sud America ^*  (Venezuela)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c Monument Oil and Gas Plc   (United Kingdom)

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