Geology of Carbonate Reservoirs: The Identification, Description, and Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in Carbonate Rocks

Geology of Carbonate Reservoirs: The Identification, Description, and Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in Carbonate Rocks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-277

  Ahr, Wayne M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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