Predicting Natural or Induced Fracture Azimuths from Shear-Wave Anisotropy

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-318

  De, G S ^a   Winterstein, D F ^a   Johnson, S J ^a   Higgs, W G ^a   Xiao, H ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

EID: 0032405562     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/50993-pa     Document Type: Article

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