Predicting sand character with integrated genetic analysis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 420, Issue , 2007, Pages 345-379

  Heins, William A ^a   Kairo, Suzanne ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief network; Quantitative provenance analysis; Reservoir quality; Sediment evolution forward model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SAND; SCREENING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; FORWARD MODELING; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR QUALITY; SAND CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ABUNDANCE; BASIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LITHOTYPE; POROSITY; SAND; SORTING; TECTONIC SETTING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 75749091508     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2420(20)     Document Type: Article

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