Improving fractured carbonate-reservoir characterization with remote sensing of beds, fractures, and vugs

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 126-139

  Kurtzman, Daniel ^a   El Azzi, Joseph A ^b   Lucia, F Jerry ^b   Bellian, Jerome ^b   Zahm, Christopher ^b   Janson, Xavier ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; DISSOLUTION; FLOW MODELING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953999737     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00205.1     Document Type: Article

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