Reservoir potential, net pay zone and 3D modeling of Cretaceous Pab Formation in Eastern Suleiman Range, Pakistan

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Hadayat Ullah ¹ , Perveiz Khalid ² , Mubashir Mehmood ³ , Saad Mashwani ⁴ , Zaheer Abbasi ⁵ , Muhammad Khan ⁶ , Ehsan Haq ⁷ , Ghulam Shah ⁸

1 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan|Institute of Geology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
2 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan
3 - Department of Geology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan KPK, Pakistan|Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid -e- Azam University Islamabad, Paksitan
4 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan
5 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan|National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE) Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
6 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan
7 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan
8 - Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hazara University Mansehra KPK, Pakistan

Received: 2021-01-15 Accepted : 2021-06-01 Published : 2021-07-01

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