Ghawar Arab-d reservoir: Widespread Porosity in Shoaling-upward Carbonate Cycles, Saudi Arabia

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 88, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-137

  Lindsay, Robert F ^a   Cantrell, Dave L ^a   Hughes, Geraint W ^a   Keith, Thomas H ^a   Mueller, Harry W ^a   Duffy Russell, S ^a  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 85055621583     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1306/1215875M88576     Document Type: Chapter

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