Seismic and acoustic velocities in reservoir rocks

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v. 1. Experimental studies

v. 3. Recent developments. Vol. 1. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES. UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENTS: Elastic properties of marine sediments / E. L. Hamilton

Compressional velocities of partially saturated, unconsolidated sands / S. E. Elliot and B. F. Wiley

Elastic properties of unconsolidated porous and reservoids / S. N. Domenico

Temperature variation of the acoustical properties of laboratory sediments / D. W. Bell, D. J. Shirley

EFFECTS OF POROSITY AND CLAY CONTENT: An experimental investigation of factors affecting elastic wave velocities in porous media / M. R. Wylie, A. R. Gregory, and G. H. F. Gardner

Effects of diagnenesis and clays on compressional velocities in rocks / C. Tosaya and A. Nur

Rock lithology and porosity determination from shear and compressional wave velocity / S.N. Domenico

Effects of porosity and clay content on wave velocities in sandstones / D. Han, A. Nur, and F. D. Morgan

EFFECTS OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE: The velocity and compressional waves in rocks to 10 Kilobars, part 2 / F. Birch

Velocity of compressional waves in porous media at permafrost temperatures / A. Timur

Compressional and shear waves in saturated rock during water-stream transition / H. Ito, J. DeVilbiss and A. Nur

Effect of temperature on wave velocities in sandstones and sands with heavy hydrocarbons / Z. Wang and A. Nur

EFFECTS OF SATRUATION AND PORE FLUID PROPERTIES: Wave velocities in rocks as a function of changes in overburden pressure and pore fluid saturation / M. S. King

The effect of saturation on velocity in low porosity rocks / A. Nur and G. Simmons

Fluid saturation effects on dynamic elastic properties of sedimentary rocks / A. R. Gregory

Acoustic measures of partial gas saturation in tight sanstones / W. F. Murphy

Vol. 1. [continued] VP/VS RELATIONS: VP/VS and poisson's ratios in marine sediments and rocks / E. L. Hamilton

The relationship between acoustic properties and the petrographic character of carbonate rocks / F. Wilkens et al

The ratio as a discriminant of composition for siliceous limestones / R. Wilkens, G. Simmons and L. Caruso

Relationship between compressional wave and shear wave velocities in clastic silicate rocks / J. P. Castanga, M. L. Batzle and R. L. Eastwood

DISPERSION: Stress relaxtions at low frequencies in fluid-saturated rocks: attenuation and modulus dispersion / J. W. Spencer, Jr

Frequency dependent ultrasonic properties of high-porosity sandstones / K. W. Winkler

Sonic and ultrasonic velocities: theory versus experiment / W. F. Murphy, III

Dispersion analysis of velocity and attenuation in Berea sandstone / K. W. Winkler

Pore fluids and frequency-dependent wave propagation in rocks / T. D. Jones

ANISOTROPY: Stress-induced velocity anisotropy in rock: an experimental study / A. Nur and G. Simmons

Measured anisottropy in pierre shale / J.E. White, L. Martineau-Nicoletis and C. Monash

Experimental determination of eaastic anisotropy of Berea sandstooe, chicopee shale, and chelmsford granite / T. Lo, K. B. Coyner and M. N. Toksoz

Shear wave anisotropyin sedimentary rocks: a laboratory study / C. S. Rai and K. E. Hanson. Vol. 3. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. BIOT, GASSMANN, LOCAL FLOW, AND DISPERSION: The Gassmann equation revisited: comparing laboratory data with Gassmann's predictions / Z. Wang

On the dependence of the elastic properties of porous rock on the compressibility of the pore fluid / R. J. S. Brown and J. Korringa

Exact results for generalized Gassmann's equations in composite porous media with two constituents / J. G. Berryman and G. W. Milton

Dynamic poroelasticity: A unified model with the squirt and the biot mechanisms / J. Dvorkin and A. Nur

The squirt-flow mechanism: macroscopic description / J. Dvorkin, R. Nolen-Hoeksema, and A. Nur

Squirt flow in fully saturated rocks / J. Dvorkin, G. Mavko, and A. Nur

The relation between seismic P-and S-wave velocity dispersion in saturated rocks / G. Mavko and D. Jizba

Dispersion analysis of acoustic velocities in rocks / Z. Wang and A. Nur

Interpreting laboratory velocity measurements in partially gas-saturated rocks / G. A. Gist

Scale effects on velocity dispersion: From ray to effective medium theories in stratified media / D. Marion, T. Mukerji, and G. Mavko

ANISOTROPY, FRACTURES, AND SHALE PROPERTIES: Long wave anisotropy produced by horizontal layering / G. Backus

Poroelastic Backus averaging for anisotropic layered fluid-and gas-saturated sediments / S. Gelinsky and S. A. Shapiro

Anisotropic effective-medium modeling of the elastic properties of shales / B. E. Hornby, L. M. Schwartz, and J. A. Hudson

Seismic anisotropy of fractured rock / M. Schoenberg and C. M. Sayers

Elastic anisotropy due to aligned cracks in porous rock / L. Thomsen

Pore fluid effects on seismic velocity in anisotropic rocks / T. Mukerji and G. Mavko

Prediction of fracture direction using shear acoustic anisotropy / D. P. Yale and E. S. Sprunt

Ultrasonic velocity and anisotropy of hydrocarbon source rocks / L. Vernik and A. Nur

Velocity anisotropy in shales: A petrophysical study / L. Vernik and X. Liu

Microcrack-induced seismic anisotropy of sedimentary rocks / C. M. Sayers and J. G. van Munster

Seismic anisotropy of shales / J. E. Johnston and N. I. Christensen

Vol. 3. [continued] POROSITY, EFFECTIVE MEDIUM, AND SATURATION: Veloocity-density relationships in sedimentary rocks / Z. Wang

Critical porosity: A key to relating physical properties to porosity in rocks / A. Nur et al

Porosity and consolidation limits of sediments and Gassmann's elastic-wave equation / R. C. Nolen-Hoeksema

Differential effective medium modeling of rock elastic moduli with critical porosity constraints / T. Mukerji et al

Bounds on low-frequency seismic velocities in partially saturated rocks / G. Mavko and T. Mukerji

Petrophysical classification of siliciclastics for lithology and porosity prediction from seismic velocities / L. Vernik and A. Nur

Acoustic velocity and porosity systematics in siliciclastics / L. Vernik

PORE FLUID PROPERTIES: Seismic properties of pore fluids / M. Batzle and Z. VVang

Acoustic velocities in petroleum oils / Z. Wang, A. Nur, and M. Batzle

The effects of salt, gas, temperature, and pressure on the compressibility of water / T. L. Osif

Sound speed in liquid-gas mixtures: Water-air and water-steam / S. W. Kieffer

Ultrasonic velocity and attenuation measurements in water-based drilling muds / A. L. Podio and A. R. Gregory

SHEAR PREDICTION AND Vp /Vs: Velocity relationships in granular rocks / Z wang

A petrophysical interpretation using the velocities of P and S waves (full-waveform sonic) / M. Krief et al

Comparison of the Krief and critical porosity models for prediction of porosity and Vp/Vs / G. Mavko and T. Mukerji

Shear-wave velocity estimation in porous rocks: Theoretical formulation, preliminary verification, and applications / M. L. Greenberg and J. P. Castagna

Modulus decomposition of compressional and shear velocities in sand bodies / W Murphy, A. Reischer, and K. Hsu

A physical model for shear-wave velocity prediction / S. Xu and R. E. White

What does control Vp /Vs in granular rocks? / G. Minificat and Y. Gueguen

Vol. 3. [continued] GAS HYDRATES AND SOFT SEDIMENTS: Physical properties of sediments containing gas hydrates / R. D. Stoll and G. M. Bryan

Speed of longitudinal sound in clathrate hydrate / E. Whalley

Seismic velocity increase and deep-sea gas hydrate concentration above a bottom-simulating reflector on the northern Cascadia continental slope / T. Yuan et al

Seismic velocities for hydrate-bearing sediments using weighted equation / M. W Lee et al

Sediments with gas hydrates: Internal structure from seismic AVO / C. Ecker, J. Dvorkin, and A. Nur

Compressional velocity and porosity in sand-clay mixtures / D. Marion et al

STATIC AND DYNAMIC MODULI: Dynamic versus static elastic properties of reservoir rocks / Z. Wang

Comparison of static and dynamic measurements of compressibility of rocks / G. Simmons and W F. Brace

Dynamic and static moduling / C. H. Cheng and D. H. Johnston

General relations between static and dynamic moduli of rocks / W. L. van Heerden

Relation between static and dynamic Young's moduli of rocks / E. A. Eissa and A. Kazi

Static and dynamic mechanical properties of carbonates / D. P. Yale and W. H. Jamieson

APPLICATIONS TO RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION: Four-dimensional seismology and (true) direct detection of hydrocarbons: The petrophysical basis / A. Nur

Feasibility of time-lapse seismic reservoir monitoring: The physical basis / Z. Wang

Reservoir recovery processes and geophysics / M. Batzle, R. Christiansen, and D. Han

Assessing the technical risk of a 4-D seismic project / D. Lumley, R. Behrens, and Z. Wang

Wave velocities in hydrocarbon saturated rocks: Experimental results / Z. Wang and A. Nur

Seismic monitoring of water floods? A petrophysical study / Z. Wang, W. K. Hirsche, and G. Sedgwick

Effect of C02 flooding on wave velocities in rocks with hydrocarbons / Z. Wang and A. Nur

Seismic monitoring of C02 flood in a carbonate reservoir: a rock physics study / Z. Wang, M. E. Cates, and R. T. Langan