New aspects of through-casing resistivity theory

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-63

  Singer, Bension Sh ^a,b   Strack, Kurt M ^a  

^a BAKER ATLAS   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; OIL WELL CASINGS;

CURRENT INJECTION ELECTRODES; THROUGH CASING RESISTIVITY THEORY;

ELECTRIC LOGGING;

EID: 0031675855     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444327     Document Type: Article

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