Reservoir & Subsurface

US/F meaning in oil and gas

Definition

Micro seconds per foot

US/F means Micro seconds per foot. Used by the petrophysics community as a measure of the travel time it takes an acoustic wave to pass through 1 foot of formation. The "U" was used as a convenient substitute for the…

Used by the petrophysics community as a measure of the travel time it takes an acoustic wave to pass through 1 foot of formation. The "U" was used as a convenient substitute for the greek letter "mu" for micro and is still often used even with the advent of modern word processing technology.

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