Characterizing hydraulic fractures using slow waves in the fracture and tube waves in the borehole

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4115-4119

  Derov, Alexey ^a   Maximov, German ^a   Lazarkov, Mikhail ^b   Kashtan, Boris ^b   Bakulin, Andrey ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c WESTERNGECO   (United States)

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EID: 84882940934     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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