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Well logging is a means of recording the physical, acoustic and electrical properties of the rocks penetrated by a well. It is carried out by service companies, which work under contract for the oil companies. Logging has the advantage that it measures in situ rock properties which cannot be measured in a laboratory from either core samples or cuttings.
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Mondol, N.H. (2015). Well Logging: Principles, Applications and Uncertainties. In: Bjørlykke, K. (eds) Petroleum Geoscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34132-8_16
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