Effective stress and minimum velocity trends

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1615-1618

  Ebrom, Dan ^a,b   Heppard, Phil ^a,b   Thomsen, Leon ^a,b   Mueller, Mike ^a,b   Harrold, Toby ^a,b   Phillip, Lindy ^a,b   Watson, Peter ^a,b  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b BP   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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EID: 33744543448     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: 19494645     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1851148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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