Full Waveform Acoustic Logging M. Nqfi RES 1.6: Toks&, iMIX
Full Waveform Acoustic Logging M. Nqfi RES 1.6: Toks&, iMIX
Full Waveform Acoustic Logging M. Nqfi RES 1.6: Toks&, iMIX
RES 1.6
Full
waveform
tions
role
acoustic
have expanded
of
determining
wave velocity
development
geology
and successful
stage
for
field
a wide
These include
pressional
the
widemodels,
have set
the
applications.
determinations
vast
amounts of information
trains.
The recovery
requires
the
of waveform
cal
data
analysis
and attenua-
dealt
properties
fracturing,
and the
in surface
relevant
to hydraulic
detection
of natural
In many areas,
data
and charac-
fractures.
tool
acquisition
development
There
information
large
quantities
light
of theoretiwaveguide.
a unique
to geophysicists
with
are
on the wave
the borehole
provides
opportunity
who have
similar
problems
seismic.
In this
paper
propagation
and interpretation.
acoustic
logs
Full
and
laboratory
waveform
of seismic
normal
modes guided
gation
and attenuation
we first
by the borehole.
results
Propa-
seismograms
and field
data,
properties
affect
modes on full
waveform
acoustic
we discuss
full
waveform
approaches
reservoir
data.
and
Then using
how formation
Finally,
the wave
in elastic
formations.
(synthetic)
used to obtain
of each mode is
review
in a borehole
in porous-permeable
analysis
combination
of
in the
successfully
theoretical
field
formation
of this
analysis
models for
This
by the
at each frequency.
and challenge
of com-
velocities
differently
porosity-permeability,
mechanical
terization
theoretical
range of
to
The
new tools,
tests
and shear
lithology,
tions,
and shear
and production.
better
affected
properties
in an open hole,
of versatile
band waveforms,
applica-
traditional
compressional
profiles
availability
logging
from the
we show
different
logs.
that
properties
may be
from