Depositional setting and diagenetic processes and their impact on the reservoir quality in the late Visean-Bashkirian Kashagan carbonate platform (Pre-Caspian Basin, Kazakhstan)

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1313-1348

  Ronchi, Paola ^a   Ortenzi, Andrea ^a   Borromeo, Ornella ^a   Claps, Michele ^b,c   Zempolich, William G ^d  

^a ENI S P A   (Italy)

^b Agip KCO   (Italy)

^c PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^d Eni E and P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CEMENTS; DISSOLUTION; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; DIAGENETIC EVOLUTION; DIAGENETIC PROCESS; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; PORES AND FRACTURES; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVOIR QUALITY;

POROSITY;

CALCITE; CEMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID INCLUSION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HETEROGENEITY; KARST; LUMINESCENCE; MATRIX; METEORIC WATER; PETROGRAPHY; RESERVOIR; SALINITY; SEDIMENTATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACE ELEMENT; VISEAN; WATER QUALITY;

KASHAGAN FIELD; KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 77957805758     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/01051009130     Document Type: Article

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