The Leading Edge; November 2009; v. 28; no. 11;
p. 1322-1332; DOI: 10.1190/1.3259609
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A field study of azimuthal seismic anisotropy in fractured carbonates at Canyon Lake, central Texas
Chih-Ping Lu,
David Wang,
Mary Johns,
Tom Murray,
Steve Heiney,
James DeGraff and
Leonel Gomez
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Corresponding author: chihping.j.lu{at}exxonmobil.com
Abstract
Many important hydrocarbon fields worldwide produce from fractured carbonate reservoirs. For those fields, azimuthal seismic anisotropy potentially provides a means to map fracture orientation and distribution in the subsurface.
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