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Contrary to what one might expect, little information is obtained on the production potential of an oil well as it is being drilled. The reason is that, for from hydrocarbons ‘gushing out’, they are actually pushed back by the drilling mud and although cuttings reveal the general lithology in the well and may perhaps show traces of hydrocarbons, they furnish no estimates of oil and gas in place. It is through the data of measurements of various kinds in the wells that such estimates can be made.
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Parasnis, D.S. (1986). Well logging in oil fields. In: Principles of Applied Geophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4113-7_9
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