Sonic logging while drilling-shear answers

Oilfield Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-15

  Alford, Jeff ^a   Blyth, Matt ^a   Tollefsen, Ed ^a   Crowe, John ^b   Loreto, Julio ^a   Mohammed, Saeed ^a   Pistre, Vivian ^a   Rodriguez Herrera, Adrian ^a  

^a Chevron Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd ^*

^b Cabinda Gulf Oil Co   (Angola)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; COMPLEX LITHOLOGY; DENSITY DATA; DRILLING TOOL; GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LOG INTERPRETATION; LOGGING WHILE DRILLING; MULTIPOLES; NOISE AND VIBRATION; PRESSURE DETERMINATION; PROPAGATION OF SOUNDS; QUADRUPOLES; ROCK PROPERTIES; SCHLUMBERGER; SONIC LOGGING; WIDE SPECTRUM;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DRILLING;

EID: 84863821196     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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