Gas hydrate saturation from acoustic impedance and resistivity logs in the shenhu area, south china sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1625-1633

  Wang, Xiujuan ^a,b   Wu, Shiguo ^a,b   Lee, Myung ^c   Guo, Yiqun ^d   Yang, Shengxiong ^d   Liang, Jinqiang ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MLR   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Gas hydrate; Saturation; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC DATA; ARCHIE EQUATION; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; GAS HYDRATE STABILITY ZONES; HYDRATE SATURATION; INVERSION METHODS; PORE SPACE; RESISTIVITY LOGS; SEISMIC DATAS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER-FILLED POROSITY; WELL LOGS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ASSOCIATED GAS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC LOGGING; GASES; HYDRATION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GAS HYDRATES;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GAS HYDRATE; POROSITY; SATURATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; WELL LOGGING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 80051802170     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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