Workflows for incorporating stratigraphic and diagenetic relationships into a reservoir-analogue model from outcrops of Miocene carbonates in SE Spain

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-78

  Benson, Gregory S ^a   Franseen, Evan K ^b   Goldstein, Robert H ^b   Li, Zhaoqi ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION; FITTING EQUATIONS; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); MICROBIAL CARBONATES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

CARBONATES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CALCITE; DIAGENESIS; DOLOMITIZATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; MIOCENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCROP; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84893777142     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo2013-008     Document Type: Article

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