Improved statistical multi-scale analysis of fractured reservoir analogues

Tectonophysics

Volumn 504, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 14-24

  Guerriero, Vincenzo ^a   Vitale, Stefano ^a   Ciarcia, Sabatino ^a   Mazzoli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbonate reservoirs; Confidence intervals; Power law distribution; Probability distribution; Scaling analysis

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; APERTURE ANALYSIS; APPROPRIATE MODELS; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; CLOSED FORM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCIES; DIFFERENT SCALE; FRACTURE ATTRIBUTES; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE SPACING; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; POWER LAW; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW EXPONENT; SCALING ANALYSIS; SCAN LINE; SORRENTO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE FRACTURES;

CARBONATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FRACTURE; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

CARBONATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRETACEOUS; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE NETWORK; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL FIELD; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

APENNINES; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SORRENTO PENINSULA;

EID: 79955407760     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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