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Logging-While-Drilling (LWD)

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Principles and Applications of Well Logging

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The crucial element in logging that has so far been covered up, is the wellbore and the drilling process that creates it. Although it is beyond the scope of this volume to discuss drilling, there are several aspects that merit mention in their relationship to logging.

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Correspondence to Hongqi Liu .

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Liu, H. (2017). Logging-While-Drilling (LWD). In: Principles and Applications of Well Logging. Springer Mineralogy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53383-3_7

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