Borehole-guided AVO analysis of P-P and P-S reflections: Quantifying uncertainty on density estimates

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 515-523

  Djikpesse, Hugues A ^a   Meghirbi, Wael ^b   Nizkous, Irina ^c   Cao, Di ^d  

^a SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^d SCHLUMBERGER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BOREHOLES; ELASTICITY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMIC WAVES;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH ANGLE (AVA); BAYESIAN INVERSION; ISOTROPIC ELASTIC FORMATIONS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AVO METHOD; P-WAVE; PROBABILITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC PROPERTY; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 33748366190     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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