Patent classifications
G01V3/30
Multi-Channel Machine Learning Model-Based Inversion
A method for identifying a collar using machine learning may include acquiring one or more measurements from one or more depth points within a wellbore including a tubular string, training a machine learning model using a training dataset to create a trained machine learning model, and identifying at least one hyperparameter using the trained machine learning model. The method may further include creating a synthetic model, wherein the synthetic model is defined by one or more pipe attributes, minimizing a mismatch between the one or more measurements and the synthetic model utilizing the at least one hyperparameter, updating the synthetic model to form an updated synthetic model, and repeating the minimizing the mismatch with the updated synthetic model until a threshold is met.
Multi-Channel Machine Learning Model-Based Inversion
A method for identifying a collar using machine learning may include acquiring one or more measurements from one or more depth points within a wellbore including a tubular string, training a machine learning model using a training dataset to create a trained machine learning model, and identifying at least one hyperparameter using the trained machine learning model. The method may further include creating a synthetic model, wherein the synthetic model is defined by one or more pipe attributes, minimizing a mismatch between the one or more measurements and the synthetic model utilizing the at least one hyperparameter, updating the synthetic model to form an updated synthetic model, and repeating the minimizing the mismatch with the updated synthetic model until a threshold is met.
Orientation determination and calibration of electromagnetic resistivity tools
Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to calibration of a resistivity tool. A calibration method comprises deploying a transmitter in a known formation with a known resistivity property with a physical tilted angle θ relative to a longitudinal axis of the tool; deploying receivers in the known formation, wherein a physical tilted angle of a first receiver is θ relative to the longitudinal axis of the tool, and wherein a physical tilted angle of a second receiver is −θ, relative to the longitudinal axis of the tool; transmitting signals with the transmitter and measuring the signals at the receivers; combining measurements at two receivers with respect to a transmitter signal in the known formation; producing synthetic responses of the tool in the known formation using forward modeling; and calculating an effective tilted angle θ′ from real measurements and the synthetic responses.
SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING A FORMATION USING PIXELATED SOLUTIONS OF FORMATION DATA
A system and method for evaluating a subterranean formation includes a logging tool that includes transmitter and receiver antennae. The transmitter antenna transmits a first electromagnetic signal into the formation at a plurality of depths. The receiver antenna receives a plurality of second electromagnetic signals emitted by the formation in response to the first signal. The system and method also include a processor configured to calculate resistivity values for the second signals, calculate solutions to an inversion algorithm of the formation, filter the solutions into a plurality of convergent solutions, pixilate the convergent solutions into pixilated solutions, calculate ensemble statistics for the pixilated solutions, calculate a difference in resistivity value between successive pixels, identify presumptive layer boundaries based on the differences in resistivity values, calculate composite resistivity statistics from the pixilated solutions based on the presumptive layer boundaries and the ensemble statistics, and generate a formation model.
SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING A FORMATION USING PIXELATED SOLUTIONS OF FORMATION DATA
A system and method for evaluating a subterranean formation includes a logging tool that includes transmitter and receiver antennae. The transmitter antenna transmits a first electromagnetic signal into the formation at a plurality of depths. The receiver antenna receives a plurality of second electromagnetic signals emitted by the formation in response to the first signal. The system and method also include a processor configured to calculate resistivity values for the second signals, calculate solutions to an inversion algorithm of the formation, filter the solutions into a plurality of convergent solutions, pixilate the convergent solutions into pixilated solutions, calculate ensemble statistics for the pixilated solutions, calculate a difference in resistivity value between successive pixels, identify presumptive layer boundaries based on the differences in resistivity values, calculate composite resistivity statistics from the pixilated solutions based on the presumptive layer boundaries and the ensemble statistics, and generate a formation model.
RESISTIVITY DETERMINATION FROM ONE TRANSMITTER AND ONE RECEIVER ANTENNAS
A system and a method for evaluating a subterranean earth formation include a logging tool locatable in a wellbore dispose in the formation. The logging tool may include a transmitter antenna and a single receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit a first electromagnetic signal into the subterranean earth formation. The system further includes a processor and a non-transitory memory device. The memory device includes instructions that cause the processor to control a current and a voltage sourced to the transmitter antenna, receive, via the single receiver antenna, a second electromagnetic signal emitted by the subterranean earth formation in response to receiving the first electromagnetic signal, and determine a resistivity of the subterranean earth formation based on the second electromagnetic signal.
RESISTIVITY DETERMINATION FROM ONE TRANSMITTER AND ONE RECEIVER ANTENNAS
A system and a method for evaluating a subterranean earth formation include a logging tool locatable in a wellbore dispose in the formation. The logging tool may include a transmitter antenna and a single receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit a first electromagnetic signal into the subterranean earth formation. The system further includes a processor and a non-transitory memory device. The memory device includes instructions that cause the processor to control a current and a voltage sourced to the transmitter antenna, receive, via the single receiver antenna, a second electromagnetic signal emitted by the subterranean earth formation in response to receiving the first electromagnetic signal, and determine a resistivity of the subterranean earth formation based on the second electromagnetic signal.
Workflow and visualization for localization of concentric pipe collars
A method and system for visualizing data to detect a collar. A method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool downhole; emitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter; energizing a casing with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current; recording the eddy current from the casing with the receiver; creating a variable-density-log from the recorded eddy current; selecting a wrapping period for the variable-density-log; creating a wrapped-variable-density-log from the variable-density-log using the wrapping period; and determining at least one collar location and a pipe index with the wrapped-variable-density-log. A system for to detect a collar may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool. The electromagnetic logging tool may comprise a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be a coil. The system may further comprise an information handling system.
Workflow and visualization for localization of concentric pipe collars
A method and system for visualizing data to detect a collar. A method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool downhole; emitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter; energizing a casing with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current; recording the eddy current from the casing with the receiver; creating a variable-density-log from the recorded eddy current; selecting a wrapping period for the variable-density-log; creating a wrapped-variable-density-log from the variable-density-log using the wrapping period; and determining at least one collar location and a pipe index with the wrapped-variable-density-log. A system for to detect a collar may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool. The electromagnetic logging tool may comprise a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be a coil. The system may further comprise an information handling system.
Methods for transmitting data acquired downhole by a downhole tool
The disclosure relates to a method and system for downhole processing of data, such as images, including using a set of downhole sensors to measure parameters relative to the borehole at a plurality of depths and azimuths and detecting predetermined features of the borehole, using a downhole processor, with a trained machine-learning model and extracting characterization data, characterizing the shape and position of the predetermined features that are transmitted to the surface. It also provides a method and system for providing an image of a geological formation at the surface including transmitting a first dataset to the surface that will be used for reconstructing an image at the surface, downhole processing of a second dataset to detect predetermined features and extract characterization data that are transmitted at the surface and displaying a combined image comprising the predetermined features overlaid on the first image.