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Effects on Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) data of mismatch between multipole sources  

Byun, Joong-Moo (Geoenvironmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Joo, Yong-Hwan (Geoenvironmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.12, no.1, 2009 , pp. 143-153 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using a discrete wavenumber method, we examine the effects on Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) logs when a mismatch exists between the amplitudes or generating times of the signals from individual monopoles in a LWD multipole source. An amplitude-mismatched LWD dipole/quadrupole source produces non-dipole/non-quadrupole modes as well as flexural and screw modes. The strongest of non-dipole/non-quadrupole modes is the Stoneley mode, whose amplitude increases with increasing mismatch. However, we can recover the flexural mode signals by A-C processing, and the screw mode by A-B+C-D processing, respectively. The Stoneley mode, which has the same amplitude at the same radial distance from the borehole axis, is cancelled out by A-C and A-B+C-D processing as long as the tool is placed at the centre of the borehole. The responses from a time-mismatched LWD multipole source look like the summation of responses by two or four monopole sources off the borehole axis. However, we can avoid the misinterpretation of the formation velocities by referring to the computed dispersion curves, which are independent of the arrival times of the modes, on the frequency semblance plot.
Keywords
amplitude mismatch; generating-time mismatch; Logging-While-Drilling (LWD); multipole source;
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