Seismic inversion: Reading between the lines

Oilfield Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-63

  Barclay, Frazer ^a   Bruun, Anders ^a   Rasmussen, Klaus Bolding ^a   Alfaro, Jose Camara ^b   Cooke, Anthony ^a   Cooke, Dennis ^a   Salter, Darren ^a   Godfrey, Robert ^a   Lowden, Dominic ^a   McHugo, Steve ^a   Özdemir, Hüseyin ^a   Pickering, Stephen ^a   Pineda, Francisco Gonzalez ^b   Herwanger, Jorg ^a   Volterrani, Stefano ^a   Murineddu, Andrea ^a   Rasmussen, Andreas ^a   Roberts, Ron ^c  

^a Pemex ^*

^b PEMEX   (Mexico)

^c Apache Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FLUID SATURATIONS; GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OIL AND GAS COMPANIES; PRODUCTION OPERATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATIONS; SEISMIC INVERSION; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; WATER SATURATIONS; WELL DATA; WIDE-RANGE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; GAS INDUSTRY; LITHOLOGY; MAPS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 48249151141     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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