Permeability from borehole acoustic logs: An overview with recent advances

1997 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 274-277

  Tang, X M ^a   Gelinsky, S ^a   Chunduru, R K ^a   Cheng, C H ^a  

^a BAKER ATLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTICS; BOREHOLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOREHOLE ACOUSTIC LOGS; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; PAST AND PRESENT; PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION; PROPAGATION EFFECT; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE FIELD SEPARATION;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84971225529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1885882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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