Outcrop characterization of fractured cretaceous carbonate reservoirs, Zagros Mountains, Iran

Society of Petroleum Engineers - 1st International Oil Conference and Exhibition in Mexico 2006, IOCEM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 595-613

  Sharp, I ^a   Gillespie, P ^a   Lonoy A ^a   Horn, S ^b   Morsalnezhad, D ^c  

^a Norsk Hydro Research Centre   (United States)

^b Roxar Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL COMPANY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITION; FRACTURE; GASOLINE; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LITHOLOGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

CRETACEOUS CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; DUAL-POROSITY RESERVOIRS; FRACTURE HETEROGENEITIES; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; MATRIX HETEROGENEITIES; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84929900570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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