Identifying stress-induced anisotropy and stress direction using cross-dipole acoustic logging

SPWLA 50th Annual Logging Symposium 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Yibing ^a   Tang, Xiaoming ^a   Patterson, Douglas J ^a  

^a BAKER HUGHES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTICS; ACTIVATION ENERGY; DEFLECTED BOREHOLES; DISPERSION (WAVES); GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OIL FIELDS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

DEPTHS OF PENETRATION; GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; INTRINSIC ANISOTROPY; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; PRINCIPAL ORIENTATIONS; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY; STRESS-INDUCED ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84929490498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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