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transmission tomography
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique used in crosswell seismic and electromagnetic tomography for recording the direct signal from the source or transmitter in one well to the receiver array in another ...
multiple salinity
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique used for the determination of the electrical properties of a shaly core sample. The sample is flushed with brines of different salinities, and the conductivity ...
slowness-time coherence
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique used for identifying and measuring the slowness and time of arrival of coherent acoustic energy propagating across an array of receivers. The different packets of ...
hydraulic fracture monitoring
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique to track the propagation of a hydraulic fracture as it advances through a formation. Microseisms are detected, located, and displayed in time for scientists and ...
bank firing
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique in which several perforating guns are run on a single trip into the well, and then all are fired simultaneously.
pulse-echo
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A technique in which an ultrasonic transducer, in transmit mode, emits a high-frequency acoustic pulse towards the borehole wall, where it is reflected back to the same transducer ...
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