Practical Issues of 4D Seismic Reservoir Monitoring: What an Engineer Needs to Know

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 528-537

  Lumley, D E ^a   Behrens, R A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMAGING METHOD; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; SEISMIC METHOD;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMAGING METHOD; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0032425515     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/53004-pa     Document Type: Article

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