Petro-seismic inversion for sandstone properties

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1611-1625

  Koesoemadinata, Adam P ^a   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR WAVES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PETROPHYSICS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FLUID PERMEABILITY; PETROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SIMULTANEOUS FITTING; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SANDSTONE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA INVERSION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 0242313854     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620635     Document Type: Article

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