Monitoring production-induced stress changes using seismic waves

2004 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sayers, Colin M ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROCRACKS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; STRESSES; TENSORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FABRIC TENSORS; INDUCED STRESS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS SENSITIVE; SURROUNDING ROCK;

ELASTIC WAVES;

EID: 85055798660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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