Insight into petrophysical properties of deformed sandstone reservoirs

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 619-637

  Torabi, Anita ^a   Fossen, Haakon ^b   Braathen, Alvar ^c  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORMATION; PETROPHYSICS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; WETTING;

DEGREE OF DEFORMATIONS; FAULT-RELATED ROCKS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

CORE SAMPLES;

CAPILLARITY; DEFORMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; INTERFACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; SANDSTONE; SEALING; SLIP;

EID: 84876395229     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/10031212040     Document Type: Article

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