Reservoir Quality of the Stø Formation in the Hammerfest Basin, Southwestern Barents Sea - The role of initial composition of sediments and diagenesis

Reduction of porosity in sandstones with increasing burial is a function of mechanical compaction causing reorganization and crushing of grains with increasing pressure, and chemical compaction, mainly precipitation of authigenic quartz cement as temperatures reaches 70-80 ºC and above. The amount o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Løvstad, Kristoffer
Format: Master Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10852/52354
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-55784