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Velocity Correction With Joint Inversion
20230098032 · 2023-03-30 · ·

A method and system for performing a velocity correction downhole. A method may include disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking one or more measurements of the borehole with one or more pads disposed on the downhole tool, creating one or more images from the one or more measurements to form an image log at a depth within the borehole, identifying a mismatch distance between the one or more images in the image log, and correcting the one or more images at the depth within the borehole based at least in part on the mismatch distance.

Velocity Correction With Joint Inversion
20230098032 · 2023-03-30 · ·

A method and system for performing a velocity correction downhole. A method may include disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking one or more measurements of the borehole with one or more pads disposed on the downhole tool, creating one or more images from the one or more measurements to form an image log at a depth within the borehole, identifying a mismatch distance between the one or more images in the image log, and correcting the one or more images at the depth within the borehole based at least in part on the mismatch distance.

Device and method for measuring flow velocity and flow direction and geological parameters of groundwater through cross holes of deep wells

A device for measuring a flow velocity and a flow direction and geological parameters of groundwater through cross holes of deep wells includes detectors and a device for throwing the tracer source. A method includes measuring a correspondence between a conductivity and a concentration of a tracer solution at different temperatures in a laboratory; selecting at least two boreholes; selecting a target aquifer section; placing the detectors in the target aquifer section in the hole to test a conductivity background value and a temperature value; using the device for throwing the tracer source to place the tracer solution in the hole for throwing the tracer source, and using the detectors to measure a water conductivity and temperature in a detection hole, to obtain a distribution curve of a tracer solution solubility with time; performing cross-test, and calculating the seepage flow velocity and flow direction of groundwater in the hole.

Device and method for measuring flow velocity and flow direction and geological parameters of groundwater through cross holes of deep wells

A device for measuring a flow velocity and a flow direction and geological parameters of groundwater through cross holes of deep wells includes detectors and a device for throwing the tracer source. A method includes measuring a correspondence between a conductivity and a concentration of a tracer solution at different temperatures in a laboratory; selecting at least two boreholes; selecting a target aquifer section; placing the detectors in the target aquifer section in the hole to test a conductivity background value and a temperature value; using the device for throwing the tracer source to place the tracer solution in the hole for throwing the tracer source, and using the detectors to measure a water conductivity and temperature in a detection hole, to obtain a distribution curve of a tracer solution solubility with time; performing cross-test, and calculating the seepage flow velocity and flow direction of groundwater in the hole.

Resistivity measurement for evaluating a fluid

A technique facilitates evaluation of a fluid flowing through a tubing and includes at least one sensor deployed along an interior of the tubing. Each sensor comprises a plurality of electrodes and insulation material disposed between the electrodes to isolate the electrodes from each other and to facilitate resistivity measurements. The plurality of electrodes comprises electrodes for emitting an electric current and for monitoring voltage so as to enable resistivity measurements with respect to fluid flowing through the tubing. The resistivity measurements may be used to determine a constituent fraction, e.g. a water fraction, of the fluid flowing through the tubing.

Resistivity measurement for evaluating a fluid

A technique facilitates evaluation of a fluid flowing through a tubing and includes at least one sensor deployed along an interior of the tubing. Each sensor comprises a plurality of electrodes and insulation material disposed between the electrodes to isolate the electrodes from each other and to facilitate resistivity measurements. The plurality of electrodes comprises electrodes for emitting an electric current and for monitoring voltage so as to enable resistivity measurements with respect to fluid flowing through the tubing. The resistivity measurements may be used to determine a constituent fraction, e.g. a water fraction, of the fluid flowing through the tubing.

Method for improving the accuracy of mud angle measurements in borehole imagers

A method and system for estimating a mud angle. A method may include disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, energizing a button array, transmitting a current from the electrode into a formation, recording the current from the formation with a return electrode to obtain a plurality of measurements, identifying at least one low resistivity zone from the plurality of measurements to produce a measurement set, inverting the measurement set to find a mud angle vector, removing the mud angle vector from the measurement set to obtain a corrected measurement, and obtaining an electrical image using the corrected measurement. A system may include a downhole tool, a conveyance, and an information handling system. The downhole tool may further include at least one electrode and at least one return electrode.

CORRECTED AIR-HANG RESPONSE USING CROSSTALK MEASUREMENT
20230067272 · 2023-03-02 ·

A measurement device can be provided for a tubular string of a drilling subsystem. The measurement device can include a transmitter and a receiver. A cover can be applied to at least one of the receiver or the transmitter. While at least one of the receiver or the transmitter is covered by the cover, an amount of crosstalk can be measured. The cover can be removed from the measurement device. Subsequent to removing the cover from the measurement device, an air-hang response of the receiver and the transmitter can be measured in an air-hang configuration of the tubular string. A corrected air-hang response of the measurement device can be determined by subtracting the amount of crosstalk from the air-hang response.

DOWNHOLE MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGING FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS

An apparatus for downhole multi-dimensional imaging includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a formation resistivity signal, an ultrasonic echo signal and an orientation signal regularly; a sector calculation unit configured to calculate, based on said orientation signal, a sector where a currently acquired signal is from; and a multi-dimensional imaging unit, configured to calculate, based on the signals acquired by the acquisition unit, data of resistivity, distance from a drilling tool to a borehole wall and ultrasonic echo amplitude, and distribute said data into all sectors for feature recognition and extraction, thus obtaining key features characterizing a current formation being drilled, said key features being transmitted to ground for guiding drilling process. The structural complexity and the length of the downhole imaging measurement instrument can be reduced, and feature recognition can be directly performed on the imaging data underground.

In-situ calibration for multi-component signals

Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to calibration of a resistivity tool. A method for in-situ calibration of a resistivity logging tool, comprises transmitting signals with transmitters of the resistivity logging tool; measuring voltages at two or more receivers located at different distances to the transmitters of the resistivity logging tool; decoupling two or more sets of multi-component tensors at two or more receivers based on the measured voltages; calculating a ratio signal from two or more sets of multi-component tensors; obtaining an apparent resistivity based on the ratio signal; simulating a dipole response tensor at the first receiver based on the apparent resistivity; comparing the first set of multi-component tensor with the dipole response tensor to acquire an in-situ calibration factor; and applying the in-situ calibration factor to multi-components for an inversion input.