Oil & gas

Oil & gas

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disharmonic

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to structures in which the shapes of adjacent layers differ or do not conform to one another. Folds of rock layers that have different mechanical properties or ...

incompetent

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Pertaining to strata that are relatively ductile and tend to flow under stress rather than deform by brittle faulting or fracturing. The bed thickness of incompetent beds tends to ...

acoustic

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to sound. Generally, acoustic describes sound or vibrational events, regardless of frequency. The term sonic is limited to frequencies and tools operated in the ...

sonic

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to sound waves in the frequency range of 1 to 25 kilohertz.

coherent

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to seismic events that show continuity from trace to trace. Seismic processing to enhance recognition of coherent events and emphasize discontinuities such as faults ...

zero-phase

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to seismic data whose wavelet is symmetrical about zero time. Deconvolution during seismic processing can convert data of mixed phase to zero-phase data, but is not ...