Application of direct-fitting, mass integral, and multirate methods to analysis of flowing fluid electric conductivity logs from Horonobe, Japan

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Doughty, Christine ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^a   Hatanaka, Koichiro ^b   Yabuuchi, Satoshi ^b   Kurikami, Hiroshi ^b,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Japan Mint   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HYDRAULICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MUD LOGGING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL DRILLING; PACKERS; ROCK DRILLING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS; WELL DRILLING;

BELOW GROUND SURFACE; BORE HOLE; DATA SETS; DIMENSIONLESS FORM; DRILLING MUDS; FAR FIELDS; FLOWING FLUID; FLUID FLOWING; HYDRAULIC HEADS; INFLOW STRENGTHS; MULTI-RATE; MULTIRATE METHODS; NON-IDEAL CONDITIONS; PACKER TESTS; PUMPING RATES; ROCK MATRIX; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER-LEVEL DECLINE; WELL DIAMETER;

OIL WELL LOGGING;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DEPTH DETERMINATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFLOW; SALINITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; HORONOBE; JAPAN;

EID: 53849111939     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006441     Document Type: Article

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