Imaging permeability structure within the highly permeable carbonate earth: Inverse theory and experiment

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1189-1201

  Yamamoto, Tokuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIMESTONE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SHEAR WAVES; AQUIFERS; CARBONATION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GEOPHYSICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIME; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR FLOW; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TOMOGRAMS; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; COMPRESSION AND SHEAR; EARTH CRUSTS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; OIL TECHNOLOGIES; PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE; AQUIFER; ATTENUATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; SEISMIC METHOD;

ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; AQUIFER; CARBONATE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0141625745     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1598103     Document Type: Article

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