Petrophysical inversion of borehole array-induction logs: Part I - Numerical examples

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Alpak, Faruk O ^a,b   Torres Verdín, Carlos ^a   Habashy, Tarek M ^c  

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

^b Premier E and P Co   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Permeability; Porosity; Rocks; Sediments; Terrestrial electricity; Well logging

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMAGNETISM; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SEDIMENTS; WELL LOGGING;

FLUID SATURATION; SALT CONCENTRATION; TERRESTRIAL ELECTRICITY;

INDUCTION LOGGING;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; DATA INVERSION; GEOMAGNETISM; NUMERICAL METHOD; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 33748092403     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2213358     Document Type: Article

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