Reservoir description of a mid-Cretaceous siliciclastic-carbonate ramp reservoir: Mauddud Formation in the Raudhatain and Sabiriyah fields, North Kuwait

GeoArabia

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 17-50

  Cross, Nigel ^a   Goodall, Ian ^b   Hollis, Cathy ^c   Burchette, Trevor ^d   Al Ajmi, Hussain Z D ^e   Johnson, Imelda Gorman ^f   Mukherjee, Raja ^g,h   Simmons, Mike ⁱ   Davies, Roger ^j  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b Goodall GeoScience Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^e Field Development for Greater Burgan South Kuwait   (Australia)

^f EXXONMOBIL   (Australia)

^g Shell EP   (Australia)

^h Gas Directorate of PDO   (Australia)

ⁱ Earth Model at Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (Australia)

^j Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (Australia)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCITE; CEMENTATION; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PARASEQUENCE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR FLOODING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST];

EID: 77950520634     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia150217     Document Type: Article

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