Locating Exploration and Appraisal Wells Using Predictive Rock Physics, Seismic Inversion and Advanced Body Tracking: An Example from North Africa

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 235-248

  Pickering, G ^a   Knight, E ^b   Bletcher, J ^a   Barker, R ^c   Kemper, M ^d  

^a TROY IKODA Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Canary Wharf   (United Kingdom)

^d IKON Science Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053003156     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.029.01.23     Document Type: Article

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