Estimation of Biot’s effective stress coefficient from well logs

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 7019-7028

  Luo, Xuan ^a,b   Were, Patrick ^b   Liu, Jianfeng ^a   Hou, Zhengmeng ^a,b,c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Energy Research Centre of Niedersachsen   (Germany)

^c CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic logging; Biot s coefficient measurement; Effective stress; Measurement while drilling; Well logging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; GAMMA RAYS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; ROCK DRILLING; ROCKS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRESSES; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WELL DRILLING;

COEFFICIENT MEASUREMENT; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT WHILE DRILLINGS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; WELLBORE STABILITY;

WELL LOGGING;

EID: 84939944722     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4219-8     Document Type: Article

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