Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis

Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-297

  Chin, Wilson C ^a   Zhou, Yanmin ^b   Feng, Yongren ^b   Yu, Qiang ^b  

^a StrataMagnetic Software LLC   (United States)

^b China Oilfield Services Limited   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC LOGGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PORE PRESSURE; RADIOACTIVITY LOGGING; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CONTAMINATION MODELING; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FORMATION TESTING; PRESSURE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME DRILLING; SERVICE COMPANIES; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84975896246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118925980     Document Type: Book

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