Net pay-what is it? What does it do? How do we quantify it? How do we use it?

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 812-822

  Worthington, Paul F ^a  

^a Cline and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL PATHS; DATA DRIVEN; FIT FOR PURPOSE; GROSS ROCK VOLUMES; HYDROCARBON RESOURCES; NET TO GROSS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; VOLUMETRIC ESTIMATION;

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM;

EID: 78649776946     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/123561-PA     Document Type: Article

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