Sonic while drilling: Have you thought about cuttings?

SPE Formation Evaluation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Marsala, A F ^a   Zausa, Fabrizio ^a   Della Martera, Mauro ^a   Santarelli, F J ^b  

^a SPE

^b AGIP SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ELASTIC WAVES; PULSE GENERATORS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PULSED ULTRASOUND ON CUTTINGS TECHNOLOGY; SONIC WHILE DRILLING;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

DRILLING; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC METHODS;

SONIC LOGGING; SONIC WHILE DRILLING; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 0031170948     PISSN: 0885923X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/30545-pa     Document Type: Article

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