Imaging hydraulic fracture zones from surface passive microseismic data

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Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 77-80

  Kochnev, Vladimir A ^a   Goz, Ilya V ^a   Polyakov, Vitaly S ^a   Murtayev, Issa S ^b   Savin, Vladimir G ^b   Zommer, Boris K ^b   Bryksin, Ilya V ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b Khantymansiiskgeofizika ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 34948882311     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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