A method of rock typing includes obtaining mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) data regarding a region of interest. A distance matrix is computed for distributions determined from the MICP data using a statistical distance metric. A cluster tree of the distributions is generated using the distance matrix. The cluster tree is adjusted based on a petrographic characteristic to produce an adjusted cluster tree, which is used to determine a pore structure types of the region of interest.

An apparatus for collecting geophysical information may include a geophysical information station disposed along a seismic communication cable. A bypass circuit responsive to a command signal is in communication with a switching circuit that is operable to route electrical power, commands, data or a combination to bypass the geophysical information station in response to the command signal. An exemplary method for bypassing a geophysical information station in a geophysical information collection system includes sending a command signal to a bypass circuit and activating one or more switching circuits using the bypass circuit to route electrical power, commands, data or a combination to bypass the geophysical information station in response to the command signal.

The disclosure discloses an oil well logging surface system, which consists of a depth system, downhole power supplies, a front-end computer assembly, a control panel assembly, an expansion card module, a system power supply, a cooling system and an Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) system. The well logging surface system is connected with downhole instruments through a well logging cable, has functions of depth data acquisition, downhole instrument power supply, cable mode control, signal processing, downhole instrument data acquisition, data transmission and the like, may display data acquired by an internal bus on own dedicated display, and may further upload the data to upper computer software for an upper computer to process through a communication line. Different configurations of a switch on the control panel assembly are changed to select a required cable core distribution mode, power supply voltage/frequency and the like to finish various kinds of operation such as well logging, perforation and coring.

An example telemetry signal detection apparatus may include a optical splitter, a light source optically coupled to the optical splitter, and a light detector optically coupled to the optical splitter. The apparatus further may include a reference loop optically coupled to the optical splitter and a sensor loop optically coupled to the reference loop and the optical splitter. The reference loop may be contained within a reference loop enclosure. The sensor loop and reference loop may comprise a zero-area Sagnac loop with folded optical fiber or dual fiber cable configurations.

Systems and methods for formation characterization in a subterranean formation are disclosed. A set of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices may be disposed in a circulating fluid. Each MEMS device in the set may have a machine-scannable designator. A MEMS scanner may be configured to scan the designator of a MEMS device in response to circulation of the circulating fluid in a wellbore surrounded by the formation. A MEMS analysis subsystem communicatively coupled with the MEMS scanner may store the designator of each MEMS device in the set, detect a subset of MEMS device by receiving the designators of MEMS devices from the MEMS scanner, and determine a characteristic of the formation based on the subset of MEMS devices.

A method of detecting a fault in an oil and gas apparatus controlled by a controller is provided. The method includes collecting a test set of data using a sensor proximate to an oil and gas apparatus during the operation of the oil and gas apparatus under test operating conditions, the test set of data being associated with an operating parameter of the controller, determining a percentage of the test set of data that falls outside a normal operation region of the oil and gas apparatus, and configuring the controller in response to the percentage being between a fault-free percentage threshold and a fault percentage threshold.

The invention is a petroleum well downhole logging tool (0) comprising —a wireline telemetry controller unit (6) comprising —a downhole modem (61) for transmitting data at a first bitrate uplink on a wireline (8) to a surface telemetry unit (106) connected to a surface read-out unit (SRO) with a memory (123)), a server toolbus controller (62) connected between said downhole modem (61) and an internal tool databus (7) operating at a second bitrate (r2) higher than the first bitrate; —one or more logging tools (4) each with sensors (40a, 40b, 40c, . . . ), each with a client toolbus controller (42) connected on said tool databus (7), said downhole logging tool (0) further comprising —a memory tool unit (2) with a memory section (21) with relatively high IO speed and capacity and connected to said internal tool databus (7) via a memory tool client toolbus controller (42m) connected to said tool databus (7) and arranged for communicating with said server toolbus controller (62), said memory tool (2) further provided with —an internal local high speed data bus (3) operating at a third bitrate (r3) higher than said second bitrate (r2), to —a high-resolution logging tool (1) with one or more sensors (1s) which provides high-resolution data (11), —said memory tool (2) arranged for transmitting a part (11s) of said high-resolution data (11) via said internal tool databus (7) online to said server toolbus controller (62) during logging, and —for uploading more of or all of said high-resolution data (11) via said server toolbus controller (62) to said surface telemetry unit (106) and said surface read-out unit (SRO).

A system and a method use dual telemetry for tools located in a wellbore. A first telemetry system and a second telemetry system coordinate communication with the tools. Both the first telemetry system and the second telemetry system may transmit data regarding the tools and/or drilling conditions from the tools to a surface location simultaneously. The first telemetry system or the second telemetry system may communicate with the surface location if communication using the other telemetry system is interrupted. The first telemetry system and the second telemetry system may have a master/slave relationship so that data requests from a specific telemetry system do not interfere with data requests from the other telemetry system.

A method may comprise obtaining a formation sample, scanning the formation sample to form a data packet, loading the data packet on an information handling machine, performing a digital porous plate experiment with the data packet, and determining geometry of a pore throat in the formation sample. A system may comprise a computer tomographic machine configured to scan a formation sample and create a data packet from the scan and an information handling system. The information handling system may be configured to configured to perform a digital porous plate experiment with the data packet and determine geometry of a pore throat in the formation sample.

A connector for use in connecting a communication element to a transmission line in a wired pipe segment includes a first female end adapted to surround and make electrical contact with a coupler connection that extends away from a communication element of the coupler; a second female end adapted to receive an inner conductor of a coaxial cable; and an inner connection element formed on an inner surface of the connector adapted to electrically connect the coupler connection and the inner conductor, the inner connection element formed such that it does not completely surround at least one of the inner conductor and the coupler connection.