Probability logs for facies classification

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Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-78

  Kapur, Loveena ^a   Lake, Larry W ^b   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; POROSITY; PROBABILITY;

BAYES THEOREM; FACIES CLASSIFICATION; PETROPHYSICS; PROBABILITY LOGS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0033714467     PISSN: 01462520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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