Fracture analysis in the Amellago outcrop and permeability predictions

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-107

  Malinouskaya, Iryna ^a   Thovert, Jean François ^b   Mourzenko, Valeri V ^b   Adler, Pierre M ^a   Shekhar, Ravi ^c   Agar, Susan ^c   Rosero, Enrique ^c   Tsenn, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b SP2MI   (France)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 84893811214     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo2012-094     Document Type: Article

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