Field Testing of a New Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging-While-Drilling Tool

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Morley ◽  
Ralf Heidler ◽  
Jack Horkowitz ◽  
Bruno Luong ◽  
Charles Woodburn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Drilling Tool ◽  
Logging While Drilling ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging While Drilling in Complex Lithology – Solution for a Glauconitic Sandstone Reservoir

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abouzaid ◽  
Holger Thern ◽  
Mohamed Said ◽  
Mohammad ElSaqqa ◽  
Mohamed Elbastawesy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Bound Water ◽  
Total Porosity ◽  
Accessory Minerals ◽  
Formation Evaluation ◽  
Rock Quality ◽  
Logging While Drilling ◽  
Bahariya Formation ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

ABSTRACT The evaluation of logging data in shaly sand reservoirs can be a challenging task, particularly in the presence of accessory minerals such as glauconite. Accessory minerals affect the measurements of conventional logging tools, thus, introducing large uncertainties for estimated petrophysical properties and reservoir characterization. The application of traditional Gamma Ray and Density-Neutron crossover methods can become unreliable even for the simple objective of differentiating reservoir from non-reservoir zones. This was the situation for many years in the glauconite-rich Upper Bahariya formation, Western Desert, Egypt. Formation evaluation was challenging and the results often questionable. Adding Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Logging While Drilling (LWD) data in three wells changed the situation radically. The NMR data unambiguously indicate pay zones and simplify the interpretation for accurate porosity and fluid saturation dramatically. Key to success is NMR total porosity being unaffected by the presence of accessory minerals. NMR moveable fluid directly points to the pay zones in the reservoir, while clay-bound and capillary-bound water volumes reflect variations in rock quality and lithology. Although the NMR total porosity is lithology independent, the presence of glauconite affects the NMR T2 distribution by shifting the water T2 response to shorter T2 times. This requires an adjustment of the T2 cutoff position for separating bound water from movable hydrocarbons. A varying T2 cutoff was computed by comparing NMR bound water to resistivity-based water saturation. The calibrated T2 cutoff exhibits an increase with depth indicating a decreasing amount of glauconite with depth throughout the Upper Bahariya formation. Based on these volumetrics, an improved NMR permeability log was calculated, now accurately delineating variations in rock quality throughout the different pay zones. In addition, viscosity was estimated from the oil NMR signal. The estimated values match the expected values very well and illustrate the potential of NMR to indicate viscosity variations. Many of these results are available today already in real-time by transmitting NMR T2 distributions to surface while drilling. Besides the application for formation evaluation, the data can be used to initiate optimized side-tracking and completion decisions directly after finishing the drilling operations.

scholarly journals Enabling surface nuclear magnetic resonance at high-noise environments using a pre-polarization pulse

2017 ◽  
Vol 212 (2) ◽  
pp. 1463-1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Lin ◽  
Yujing Yang ◽  
Fei Teng ◽  
Mike Müller-Petke
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Pulse Sequence ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Forward Modelling ◽  
Layer Model ◽  
High Noise ◽  
Reliable Detection ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

Summary The technique of surface nuclear magnetic resonance (SNMR) has been widely used for hydrological investigations in recent years. Unfortunately, the detected SNMR signals are limited to tens of nanovolts and are thus susceptible to environmental noise. While pre-polarization pulses to enhance the detected signal amplitudes are common in laboratory applications, SNMR field testing has only utilized excitation pulses until now. In conducting measurements in China, we demonstrate that adding a pre-polarization field to the SNMR pulse sequence is feasible and allows for the reliable detection of SNMR signals in noisy scenarios that otherwise prohibit signal detection. We introduce a forward modelling for pre-polarization using SNMR and present a three-layer model obtained from inverse modelling that satisfies the observed data from the field experiment. We expect this development to open up new applications for SNMR technology, especially in high-noise level places, such as active mines.

Data Report: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging while Drilling, ODP Leg 204

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Collett ◽  
M.W. Lee ◽  
D.S. Goldberg ◽  
F.R. Rack ◽  
T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Logging While Drilling ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging; While Drilling, Wireline and Fluid Sampling

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas John Seifert ◽  
Ridvan Akkurt ◽  
Saleh Al-Dossary ◽  
Ramez Mamdouh Shokeir ◽  
Haluk Vefa Ersoz
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Logging While Drilling ◽  
Fluid Sampling ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

An emerging technology: Nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1000-1001
Author(s):  
M.J. Hennessy ◽  
E. Kwok
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Relaxation Times ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Images ◽  
Nmr Microscopy ◽  
Mri Scans ◽  
Temperature Relaxation ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

Much progress in nuclear magnetic resonance microscope has been made in the last few years as a result of improved instrumentation and techniques being made available through basic research in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies for medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was first observed in the hydrogen nucleus in water by Bloch, Purcell and Pound over 40 years ago. Today, in medicine, virtually all commercial MRI scans are made of water bound in tissue. This is also true for NMR microscopy, which has focussed mainly on biological applications. The reason water is the favored molecule for NMR is because water is,the most abundant molecule in biology. It is also the most NMR sensitive having the largest nuclear magnetic moment and having reasonable room temperature relaxation times (from 10 ms to 3 sec). The contrast seen in magnetic resonance images is due mostly to distribution of water relaxation times in sample which are extremely sensitive to the local environment.

Nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 828-829
Author(s):  
Paul C. Lauterbur
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Field Gradients ◽  
Useful Signal ◽  
Magnetic Field Gradients ◽  
Observation Times ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging can reach microscopic resolution, as was noted many years ago, but the first serious attempt to explore the limits of the possibilities was made by Hedges. Resolution is ultimately limited under most circumstances by the signal-to-noise ratio, which is greater for small radio receiver coils, high magnetic fields and long observation times. The strongest signals in biological applications are obtained from water protons; for the usual magnetic fields used in NMR experiments (2-14 tesla), receiver coils of one to several millimeters in diameter, and observation times of a number of minutes, the volume resolution will be limited to a few hundred or thousand cubic micrometers. The proportions of voxels may be freely chosen within wide limits by varying the details of the imaging procedure. For isotropic resolution, therefore, objects of the order of (10μm) may be distinguished.Because the spatial coordinates are encoded by magnetic field gradients, the NMR resonance frequency differences, which determine the potential spatial resolution, may be made very large. As noted above, however, the corresponding volumes may become too small to give useful signal-to-noise ratios. In the presence of magnetic field gradients there will also be a loss of signal strength and resolution because molecular diffusion causes the coherence of the NMR signal to decay more rapidly than it otherwise would. This phenomenon is especially important in microscopic imaging.

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