Directional LWD resistivity tools and their business impacts

49th Annual Logging Symposium 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Zhiyi ^a   Gonguet, Christophe ^b   Rajani, Vinit ^a   Roeterdink, Roeland ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOGGING; ENGINEERS;

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INTEGRATED SERVICE; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; OPERATIONAL DECISIONS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERS; RESISTIVITY LOGGING; RESISTIVITY TOOLS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 85082232862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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