Fracture and permeability evaluation in a fault zone from sonic waveform data

SPWLA 38th Annual Logging Symposium 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Endo, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Hisao ^b   Brie, Alain ^a   Badri, Mohammed ^c   Sheikh, Mohamed El ^d  

^a Wireline and Testing ^*  (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^d Agiba Petroleum Company   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLES; BORING; INFILL DRILLING; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; ROCKS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRESSES; WELL DRILLING;

FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; PERMEABILITY ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERISTIC; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85054365241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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