Abstract:
Various disclosed borehole imaging tools and methods provide an improved high- resolution electrode configuration suitable for imaging in both water-based and oil-based muds. In at least some embodiments, the imaging tools employ a unitary conductive body to provide a wall-contacting face with grooves that define multiple sensing surfaces. Toroids may be seated in the grooves around each sensing surface for measuring the current flow through each sensing surface. Such placement enables a nearly ideal equipotential surface to be maintained and a straightforward "full coverage" electrode configuration due to a minimal electrode separation. Moreover, the disclosed configuration promises robust and reliable performance in the hostile conditions often experienced by logging while drilling (LWD) tools. This wall-contacting face can be provided on an extendable sensor pad or embedded on the outer surface of a LWD stabilizer fin.
Abstract:
A method for determining tubing permeability includes conveying a tool through a tubular string in a borehole. The tool includes a transmitter that transmits a primary electromagnetic field and a receiver that receives at least one collar response. The collar response includes a secondary electromagnetic field produced in response to the primary field by a collar in the tubular string. The method further includes determining a permeability of at least one portion of the tubular string based on a magnitude of the at least one collar response. The method further includes displaying a representation of the at least one portion of the tubular string based on the permeability.
Abstract:
A method of detecting defects in non-nested tubings or a casing includes acquiring a first set of data from an electromagnetic ("EM") tool run inside a first of the non-nested tubings. The method further includes calibrating the data to reduce effects from a second of the non-nested tubings, identifying a location of a defect in the first of the non-nested tubings or the casing, and adjusting the data to compensate for eccentricity if the defect is in the casing. The method further includes performing an inversion algorithm on the data, the inversion algorithm developed for a single tubing configuration.
Abstract:
A system comprises a wellbore having a plurality of casings disposed therein and one or more electromagnetic coils disposed within the wellbore. The one or more electromagnetic coils are configured to generate and direct one or more excitation signals toward the plurality of casings and receive one or more response signals based on interactions of the one or more excitation signals with the plurality of casings. The system further comprises a casing evaluation module comprising a processor and memory and communicably coupled to the one or more electromagnetic coils. The casing evaluation module is operable to determine whether a defect exists in at least one of the plurality of casings using a first response signal received from the one or more electromagnetic coils and elemental defect information, the elemental defect information comprising a plurality of combinations of small defect information.
Abstract:
A logging tool having a transmitter and receiver is positioned in a geological formation. While the logging tool is static, a transmit input signal is applied to a transmitter to cause the transmitter to induce a transmit output signal in the form of an electromagnetic field into a formation. While the logging tool is static, a formation signal is received based on the transmit output signal. The formation signal may be a voltage indicative of an induced polarization in the formation based on the transmit output signal. A complex resistivity of the formation is determined based on the formation signal.
Abstract:
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to reduce error in measurements. In various embodiments, a field is measured at two sensors at different positions from each other, the two sensors are interchanged, and the field at the two sensors at the two interchanged positions is measured. 5 Using the measurements acquired before the interchange and the measurements after the interchange, errors in measuring the field, a difference in the field, or a combination of the field and the difference in the field can be reduced. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Abstract:
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to utilize signals acquired from a multi-component induction tool operating in a wellbore. The acquired signals can be correlated to apparent conductivity of a formation and mapped to components of an apparent conductivity tensor. For each receiver array operated by the multi-component induction tool, a combination of these components from the acquired signals can be generated. Combinations generated from different receivers of the multi-component induction tool can be mixed together. From such combinations, data, with respect to evaluation of formation around the wellbore, can be generated. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of real-time impedance matching includes conveying a tool through a borehole where the tool includes a transmit cavity antenna and receive cavity antenna for transmitting and receiving signals through a subsurface formation. The tool also includes a cable for routing signals within the tool and at least one variable inductor or variable capacitor in an impedance-matching circuit. The method further includes measuring a reflection of a signal transmitted through the formation and determining a target impedance based on the impedance of the cable and the reflection. The method further includes adjusting the at least one variable inductor or variable capacitor such that the impedance of the matching circuit substantially equals the target impedance and receiving a signal from the formation via the adjusted impedance of the matching circuit.
Abstract:
An example method may include computing a database for an ideal representation of a galvanic tool, and determining internal coupling impedance between at least one monitor electrode of the galvanic tool and a reference. Voltage and current measurements from the galvanic tool positioned within a formation may be received. A formation resistivity from the voltage and current measurements may be calculated based, at least in part, on the database and the determined internal coupling impedances.
Abstract:
A method for optimizing eddy current measurements includes conveying an electromagnetic tool through a borehole. The method further includes transmitting an excitation signal from the tool. The method further includes recording an eddy current response to the excitation signal from one or more tubings and casings within the borehole before the fall time of the excitation signal.