A method for determining properties of different cation exchange sites in a rock core sample at a non-preserved state may include displacing all native components out of the rock core sample before subjecting the rock core sample to coreflooding steps to determine a total amount of exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites; injecting formation brine and then a reservoir crude oil into the rock core sample such that the rock core sample includes indigenous exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites, cation exchange sites occupied by a crude oil, and one or more fluids; subjecting the rock core sample to coreflooding steps to displace the indigenous exchangeable cations, the crude oil, and the one or more fluids; determining an amount of indigenous exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites; and determining at least one property of different cation exchange sites.

A method for determining properties of different cation exchange sites in a rock core sample at a non-preserved state may include displacing all native components out of the rock core sample before subjecting the rock core sample to coreflooding steps to determine a total amount of exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites; injecting formation brine and then a reservoir crude oil into the rock core sample such that the rock core sample includes indigenous exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites, cation exchange sites occupied by a crude oil, and one or more fluids; subjecting the rock core sample to coreflooding steps to displace the indigenous exchangeable cations, the crude oil, and the one or more fluids; determining an amount of indigenous exchangeable cations adsorbed onto the cation exchange sites; and determining at least one property of different cation exchange sites.

A wellbore optical fiber measurement system for measuring data in a lateral wellbore that includes a flexible optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a waveguide coated with a coating, wherein the optical fiber has an effective density ρ.sub.eff.sub.fiber and an effective axial Young modulus E.sub.eff.sub.fiber and wherein the product $\left(\frac{{\rho }_{{\mathrm{eff}}_{fiber}}}{E_{{\mathrm{eff}}_{fiber}}}\right).Math.\left(1-\frac{{\rho }_{water}}{{\rho }_{{\mathrm{eff}}_{fiber}}}\right)$
is greater than 50 kg/m3/GPa. The system also includes a data acquisition unit with a processor operable to obtain strain measurement data of the wellbore from the optical fiber.

A resistivity imaging device and a method of operating the resistivity imaging device in a wellbore. The resistivity imaging device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a circuit electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode. An impedance is measured of a formation surrounding the wellbore. Based on the impedance, the circuit is configured into one of a first circuit configuration for operating the resistivity imaging device in a first mode and a second circuit configuration for operating the resistivity imaging device in a second mode. The resistivity imaging device is operated using the circuit in the one of the first circuit configuration and the second circuit configuration.

A method may include obtaining power production and fuel consumption data of a first piece of rig equipment through a flow meter, where the rig equipment includes a plurality of pieces of equipment. The method further includes feeding the power production and fuel consumption data of the first piece of rig equipment into a real-time monitoring system of the rig via the flow meter. The method further includes determining an energy efficiency, based on real-time performance, of the first piece of rig equipment using a consumption efficiency model. The method further includes comparing the energy efficiency of the first piece of rig equipment against continuously updated historical data of the first piece of rig equipment by a real-time database monitoring system. The method further includes identifying deficiencies of the first piece of rig equipment in real-time and determining maintenance or replacement of the first piece of rig equipment.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating, using a source wavelet and a current velocity model, modeled seismic data of the subterranean formation; applying a pre-condition to a seismic data residual calculated using the modeled seismic data and acquired seismic data from the subterranean formation; generating a velocity update using the source wavelet and the pre-conditioned seismic data residual; updating, using the velocity update, the current velocity model to generate an updated velocity model; determining that the current velocity model satisfies a predetermined condition; and responsively determining that the updated velocity model is the velocity model of the subterranean formation.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating, using a source wavelet and a current velocity model, modeled seismic data of the subterranean formation; applying a pre-condition to a seismic data residual calculated using the modeled seismic data and acquired seismic data from the subterranean formation; generating a velocity update using the source wavelet and the pre-conditioned seismic data residual; updating, using the velocity update, the current velocity model to generate an updated velocity model; determining that the current velocity model satisfies a predetermined condition; and responsively determining that the updated velocity model is the velocity model of the subterranean formation.

A method may include calculating a first set of hash values for a set of well log channels, extracting a well log channel snippet from an unknown well log channel, calculating a second set of hash values for the well log channel snippet, identifying, for the unknown well log channel, a matching well log channel by searching the first set of hash values with the second set of hash values, and storing, for the unknown well log channel, a channel context corresponding to the matching well log channel.

A method may include calculating a first set of hash values for a set of well log channels, extracting a well log channel snippet from an unknown well log channel, calculating a second set of hash values for the well log channel snippet, identifying, for the unknown well log channel, a matching well log channel by searching the first set of hash values with the second set of hash values, and storing, for the unknown well log channel, a channel context corresponding to the matching well log channel.

A method includes generating a set of sub-images of a subsurface formation based on measurement values acquired by a plurality of sensors corresponding to one or more signals that have propagated through the subsurface formation, wherein each of the set of sub-images correspond to one of the plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are on a tool in a borehole, wherein each of the plurality of sensors are at different spatial positions with respect to each other. The method also includes generating a combined image by aligning the set of sub-images based on the measurement values, wherein the aligning of the set of sub-images is independent of acceleration of the tool during tool motion.