Marine CSEM technology performance in hydrocarbon exploration - Limitations or opportunities?

First Break

Volumn 27, Issue MAY, 2009, Pages 65-71

  Stefatos, Aristofanis ^a   Boulaenko, Mikhail ^a,b   Hesthammer, Jonny ^a,b  

^a Rocksource   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 65549119709     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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