Field-Scale Geometries of Upper Khuff Reservoir Geobodies in an Outcrop Analogue (Oman Mountains, Sultanate of Oman)

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-16

  Koehrer, Bastian ^a   Aigner, Thomas ^a   Pöppelreiter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Qatar Shell Research and Technology Center   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Khuff Formation; Outcrop analogue study; Reservoir architecture; Static 3D modelling

Indexed keywords

AREA OF INTEREST; FIELD SCALE; GAS FIELDS; GEOBODIES; HIGH ENERGY; KHUFF FORMATION; MARKER BEDS; OUTCROP ANALOGUE STUDY; POTENTIAL RESERVOIR; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RAY PATTERN; RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE; SCALE CORRELATION; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; STATIC 3D MODELLING; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBSURFACE MODEL; SUBSURFACE RESERVOIR; SULTANATE OF OMAN; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

ARCHITECTURE; ASSOCIATED GAS; GAMMA RAYS; GAS INDUSTRY; GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FACIES ANALYSIS; GAS FIELD; GEOMETRY; GRAINSTONE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OUTCROP; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

JEBEL AKHDAR; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79751501192     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079310-009     Document Type: Article

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