Pore pressure estimation from velocity data: Accounting for overpressure mechanisms besides undercompaction

SPE Reprint Series

Volumn , Issue 49, 1999, Pages 78-84

  Bowers, Glenn L ^a  

^a Applied Mechanics Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID EXPANSION MECHANISM; OVERPRESSURE; SONIC VELOCITY; UNDERCOMPACTION;

CORRELATION METHODS; FLUID MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROSITY; STRESSES; VELOCITY;

PORE PRESSURE;

EID: 0032613671     PISSN: 08910901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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