Petrotype-based sampling applied in a saturation exponent screening study, Nubian Sandstone formation, sirt Basin, Libya

Petrophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 264-270

  Corbett, Patrick W M ^a   Mousa, Noreddin I A ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIBYAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PLUGS; DEPOSITIONAL TEXTURE; FLUVIAL RESERVOIRS; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; SANDSTONE FORMATIONS; SATURATION EXPONENT; SPECIAL CORE ANALYSIS;

SANDSTONE;

EID: 77956679330     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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