Improving the assessment of residual hydrocarbon saturation with the combined quantitative interpretation of resistivity and nuclear logs

SPWLA 50th Annual Logging Symposium 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Heidari, Zoya ^a   Torres Verdín, Carlos ^a   Mendoza, Alberto ^a   Wang, Gong Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOGGING; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; NEUTRON LOGGING; NEUTRONS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROSITY; TIGHT GAS;

HYDROCARBON SATURATION; MUD-FILTRATE INVASION; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESIDUAL GAS SATURATION; RESIDUAL HYDROCARBONS; STANDARD INTERPRETATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OIL WELL LOGGING;

EID: 85055528434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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