An improved sonic transit time-to-porosity transform

SPWLA 21st Annual Logging Symposium 1980

Volumn , Issue , 1980, Pages

  Raymer, L L ^a   Hunt, E R ^a   Gardner, J S ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPACTION; LITHOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONSISTENT MATRICES; CORRECTION FACTORS; EMPIRICAL TRANSFORMS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LOW VELOCITIES; TRANSIT TIME; UNCONSOLIDATED SANDS; WYLLIE TIME AVERAGE EQUATION;

POROSITY;

EID: 85058968312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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