Patent Application: US-201514643646-A

Abstract:
a method for estimating parameters of a propagating wave field , such as the direction of propagation in 3d space of an acoustic wave from borehole - acoustic data . the estimation technique uses phase delays between recordings made by the individual receivers related to a plane wave travelling across the receiver array . the estimated plane waves include the wave field generated directly by the acoustic source , as well as refracted and reflected components of these fields . the technique can be used with overlapping wave fields . this will provide significant improvements in the quality of formation properties estimated from full - waveform data that are obtained either from wireline or from while - drilling sonic data . the inventive method enables characterization of abnormalities outside multiple casing strings where acoustic signals are transmitted from a source located inside said multiple casing string .

Description:
the patent or application file contains at least one drawing executed in color . copies of this patent or patent application publication with color drawing ( s ) will be provided by the office upon request and payment of the necessary fee . the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings where : fig1 : ray paths for refraction / borehole signal with an acoustic signal in the well ; fig3 : cross section of a receiver station of the sonic scanner tool ; fig4 a : at measured depth 2717 m : eight data traces acquired at a fixed receiver of 7 ft ; fig4 b : at measured depth 2717 m : thirteen data traces recorded at a fixed azimuth and source - receiver offset between 1 and 7 ft ; fig5 : raw data from the isolation scanner at a fixed azimuth over a 500 ft depth interval . the signal directly refracted along the 7 ″ casing appears to have been aligned at 100 μs . at around 150 μs , one can see reflections / refractions from a second interface ; fig6 a : data from the isolation scanner at a fixed depth . the 36 records are one for each ten degrees around the azimuth of the well ; fig6 b : data from the isolation scanner at a fixed depth . the same traces of fig6 a as a 10 °- segmented radial fan ; fig7 a : stacking semblance related to the most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 , as a function of slowness and azimuth . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 210 μs / m ( 4750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 156 °, and polar angle θ = 44 ′; fig7 b : stacking semblance related to the most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 , as a function of slowness and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 210 μs / m ( 4750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 156 °, and polar angle θ = 44 °; fig7 c : stacking semblance related to the most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 , as a function of azimuth and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 210 μs / m ( 4750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 156 °, and polar angle θ = 44 °; fig8 a : stacking semblance related to the 2nd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and azimuth . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 197 ms / m ( 5076 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 352 °, and polar angle θ = 20 °; fig8 b : stacking semblance related to the 2nd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 197 μs / m ( 5076 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 352 °, and polar angle θ = 20 °; fig8 c : stacking semblance related to the 2nd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of azimuth and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 197 μs / m ( 5076 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 352 °, and polar angle θ = 20 °; fig9 a : stacking semblance related to the 3rd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and azimuth . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 565 μs / m ( 1750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 0 °, and polar angle θ = 76 °; fig9 b : stacking semblance related to the 3rd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 565 μs / m ( 1750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 0 °, and polar angle θ = 76 °; fig9 c : stacking semblance related to the 3rd most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of azimuth and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 565 μs / m ( 1750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 0 °, and polar angle θ = 76 °; fig1 a : stacking semblance related to the 4th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and azimuth . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 295 μs / m ( 3400 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 68 °, and polar angle θ = 66 °; fig1 b : stacking semblance related to the 4th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 295 μs / m ( 3400 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 68 °, and polar angle θ = 66 °; fig1 c : stacking semblance related to the 4th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of azimuth and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 295 μs / m ( 3400 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 68 °, and polar angle θ = 66 °; fig1 a : stacking semblance related to the 5th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and azimuth . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 341 μs / m ( 2933 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 176 °, and polar angle θ = 48 °; fig1 b : stacking semblance related to the 5th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of slowness and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 341 μs / m ( 2933 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 176 °, and polar angle θ = 48 °; fig1 c : stacking semblance related to the 5th most coherent wave - field component for the data recorded with the middle of the receiver array at a measured depth 746 m , as a function of azimuth and polar angle . the arrow points to the maximum , corresponding to a slowness of 341 μs / m ( 2933 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 176 °, and polar angle θ = 48 °; fig1 a : velocities for the shallowest few records . the one with a velocity around 1500 m / s is most likely a stoneley mode , the one around 3300 the shear and the one around 5000 the compressional ; fig1 b : phase velocities for the shallowest few records . the larger phase velocities indicate a modest tool eccentering ; fig1 : data acquired with the sonic scanner from inside 7 ″ casing in the depth interval indicated on fig1 ; fig1 : phase slowness versus depth for 5 most energetic wave forms for the data shown in fig1 . blue indicates the most energetic waveform ; fig1 : amplitude versus slowness and depth , showing that the casing arrival ( within the red oval shape ) becomes significant from a specific depth ( 3427 m ); fig1 : raw data acquired by the isolation scanner . the data , sampled at 1 μs , has clearly been aligned by placing the reflection from the 7 - in casing at 100 μs . this time shifting has been done in a circular fashion such that data that is shifted off the record at the end of the data , reappears at early times ; fig1 : the relative bearing of the tool , showing that the tool rotated about 3 full rotations over the 160 m depth interval ; fig1 : migrated image showing distance away from the center of the well , as a function of depth along the well . notice that whiles the aspect ration of this figure is about 1 : 300 ; fig2 : the same migrated image as in fig1 , but with the 7 - in casing removed . the blue dots show an automatic picking of the next big event , what appears to be refractions along the 9⅝ in pipe ; fig2 a : the extracted structure outside the 7 - in pipe , displayed in 3d ( as “ bottom up ”) straight from the side ; fig2 b : the extracted structure outside the 7 - in pipe , displayed in 3d ( as “ bottom up ”) slightly from the bottom up ; fig2 a : reflection amplitudes along the object extracted from outside of the 7 - in casing , identified as the 9⅝ - in casing . we interpret the higher - amplitude abnormalities indicated by the red arrows , near the top of the section , starting at 2220 m as an indication of absence of cement or patchy cement outside the casing shallower than 2220 m . the higher amplitude event ( red arrows ) cork - screwing around the pipe deeper could be an indication of a channel . ( we expect the “ cork - screwing ” to be related to the rotation of the tool ( fig1 ); fig2 b : reflection amplitudes along the object extracted from outside of the 7 - in casing , identified as the 9⅝ - in casing . we interpret the higher - amplitude abnormalities indicated by the red arrows , near the top of the section , starting at 2220 m as an indication of absence of cement or patchy cement outside the casing shallower than 2220 m . the higher amplitude event ( red arrows ) cork - screwing around the pipe deeper could be an indication of a channel . ( we expect the “ cork - screwing ” to be related to the rotation of the tool ( fig1 ). the 3d amplitude distribution is draped as texture around the pipe . fig1 shows the ray paths for refraction / borehole signal with an acoustic signal in the well . the acoustic waves emitted from an acoustic tool in a cased well is scattered , reflected and refracted from inhomogeneities in the formation outside the inner casing . the figure is showing the border between cement and fluid in the annulus of multiple casing strings . fig2 shows the configuration of the schlumberger sonic tool , the sonic scanner ©. the key features of this tool is summarized as 13 receiver stations distributed at 0 . 5 ft intervals along the axis of the tool . each station consists of 8 hydrophones located at 45 ° intervals around the perimeter of the tool , as illustrated in fig3 ; 3 monopole transmitters , 2 offset by 1 ft on either end of the receiver section ( mu and ml ), and 1 that is 11 ft below the receiver array ( mf ), and 2 mutually perpendicular dipole tools with dipole axes perpendicular to the tool axis . several potentially severe problems were solved by using the sonic scanner in its standard configuration . the large dynamic range of sonic scanner ( giving digitized data at 16 - bit resolution ) allows weak reflections to be recorded in the presence of powerful modes trapped in the well bore . the simply shaped construction of sonic scanner makes it possible to apply powerful model - guided adaptive filters to separate the strong , guided modes from the weak reflections . 13 receivers at separate eight azimuths makes it possible to determine at which side of the well bore a reflector is located . the schlumberger isolation scanner © tool is specifically designed to measure waves refracted along the well . the tool has both a pulse - echo transceiver and a system consisting of a combination of a single transmitter and two receivers designed to excite and record flexural waves in the casing . the tool , which rotates at the bottom of the tool , scans the casing at predetermined angular intervals allowing 360 ° azimuthal coverage . the following example uses field data from the north sea acquired with said sonic scanner © for statoil . the data are acquired in the deep part of a cased well . the sonic waveforms were acquired within single and double casing . fig4 shows sonic full - waveform data recorded at a depth of 2717 m . the borehole guided waves are dominant . at the nearest receiver , the casing - refracted wave arrives at around 200 μs , at the far offset at around 600 μs . the later arriving , slower compressional , shear and stoneley waves are hardly distinguishable below the casing arrival . fig1 shows raw data recorded over a 220 m range of measured depth by a fixed receiver . the receiver was offset from the source by 1 ft . the data are dominated by the borehole guided waves , the casing arrivals , the compressional , shear and some stoneley waves , displaying a near - linear ( or constant velocity ) behavior across the fixed - azimuth data traces . the changes in the appearance of the data , should likely be associated with changes in the material behind the casing . fig5 shows raw field data acquired at a fixed azimuth by the isolation scanner © over a 500 ft depth interval . the data were acquired from the inside of a 7 - in casing , which in turn was inside of a 9⅝ - in casing . the signal directly refracted along the 7 - in casing appears to have been aligned at 100 μs . at around 150 one can see reflections / refractions from the next 9⅝ - in casing . in fig6 , we again show data from isolation scanner at a fixed depth . the 36 records in fig6 a are one for each ten degrees around the azimuthal perimeter of the well . in fig6 b , we have displayed the same traces as a 10 °- segmented radial fan . the data in fig5 and 6 are shown in reflection time versus depth or azimuth angle . in a later segment of this report , we will see how these displays are transformed to spatial images . in the following we will analyze methods for separating highly overlapping components of the well - bore wave field , and explore how the separated wave - field components can be used for imaging the well and its immediate surroundings . the near - linear increase in arrival times for the direct arrivals with increasing source - receiver offset in fig4 , indicates that the these components of the wave field each may be approximated by a plane wave : a j ( x , τ jx , ω )= g j ( x , ω ) e iωτ jx [ 1 ] where the amplitude factor g j ( x , ω ) describes the wave - component j , affected by wave - field spreading and absorption , ω denotes the angular frequency , and τ jx is the travel time for wave - field component j from the source at 0 to the receiver at location x . this travel time can be written as τ jx = s j · x where is the slowness vector ( inverse velocity ) for the propagating wave . ignoring the spatial variations in the wave - field function by setting g j ( x , ω )=( ω ), we can rewrite equation [ 1 ]: a j ( x , s j , ω )= g j ( ω ) e iωs j · x [ 2 ] a set of data traces d recorded at receiver r n at a given source - receiver offset x n , can be written as a superposition of the elemental wave - field components : in order to get simultaneous , unbiased estimates of g j ( ω ), one could invert equation [ 3 ] by using a method similar to the one described by hirabayashi et al . ( 2008 ). however , for the purpose of testing the concept , we have estimated the set of parameters for one wave - field component at the time , starting with the most coherent . the propagation time for wave - field component k from the source at 0 to the receiver at x is equal to s k · x . by shifting all data traces d by s k · x , the reference time for wave - field component k will refer to the time of the emission from the source ( at τ = 0 ), all receivers will have copies of the propagating , elemental wave field g k ( ω ), aligned to the time of emission at the source . at this reference time , we have : if we require that the propagators for the plane - wave components are approximately orthogonal , in the sense that for j ≠ k , we have : with this condition , we get estimates of the wave - field components g k ( ω ) by time delaying and stacking : considering the difference in propagation slowness | s | for the elemental wave forms ( mainly compressional , shear and stoneley ), the condition imposed by equation [ 6 ] should be good . however , this condition could also be adversely affected by the spatial and temporal aliasing . the stacking power for the aligned data as a function of velocity , polar angle θ , and azimuth angle φ is : the objective would then be , for each elemental wave - field component k , to find the set of parameters s , θ and ω that maximizes the power p k ( s , θ , φ ) or the semblance s k ( s , θ , φ ). the linear move - outs of the wave - field components seen in the fixed - azimuth data in fig4 suggest that we can find a solution to this estimation problem by using a two - step process whereby first the component of the propagation slowness along the axis of the tool is found . this component , the “ phase slowness ”, is given by s z =| s | cos ( θ ), with θ being the polar angle ( which we define as the angles with the axis of the tool ). following this we can map the stacking semblance as a function of θ and φ for the estimated value of s z . the “ wave - field stripping process ” starts with the wave - field giving the highest semblance value . having established the parameters for wave - field component 1 , we estimate this using either equation [ 8 ] or [ 9 ], and remove it . on the residuals , we find the most coherent wave field , etc . by repeating this process 4 times , we find estimates of the 5 most coherent wave - field components ( in hierarchical order ). up to this point , we have made no use of absolute travel times . however , with our estimates of formation velocities , and propagation directions for scattered waves , the travel times will tell the distance to the scatterers . let us assume we have a constant - velocity medium at velocity v l and that a wave is generated by a source at point s , scattered at point x and arriving at the receiver at point r at time t . it is well - known from migration theory that x lies on an ellipsoid with the source and receiver at its focal points ( see , e . g ., miller et al , 1987 ). the generator for the ellipsoid is vt , the medium velocity multiplied by the total travel time . from our measurements , we also know the direction from the receiver towards the scattering point . pointing back into the formation along the direction the scattered wave arrived , at the azimuth determined above , the scattering point is offset from the mid - point between source and receiver by : here , the parameters v and θ are obtained from the plane - wave analysis in the previous section . the borehole wall is generally associated with a propagating velocity for acoustic waves v s that is larger than the propagation velocity in the fluid v l ( which generally is around 1500 m / s ). we have a relation between the distance d to the wall of the well and the travel time t n for a direct , refracted wave travelling along the borehole wall from the source to the receiver n offset by a distance d n , with d n & gt ;& gt ; d , from the source : here v s and v l are the propagation velocities in the formation and in the fluid - filled wellbore , respectively , assuming that v l & lt ; v s , and that both the source and receivers are at the same distance from the wall . this can be solved for the distance to the borehole wall : this equation gives a mapping directly from travel time to distance away from the tool face . knowing the distance from the centre of the wellbore to the transmitter and receiver faces , equation [ 13 ] gives a direct measure of the casing radius . we will use this equation to make an image of the borehole wall . however , with a fluid - filled annulus ( like in fig1 ), it is important to realize that this same formula also relates the travel times and the distance to the second and third interfaces , meaning that we can use this relationship to make images of these interfaces . with a tool with arbitrary centralization in the wellbore , from equation [ 13 ] one can find the difference δy in the fluid thickness at opposite sides of the tool : where δt is the delay between wave - field arrivals at two opposing sides of the tool . measured by the wave - front tilt θ , the maximum difference in fluid thickness becomes : where r is the average of the two distances , or typically half the difference between the well diameter and tool diameter . for fixed values of r and δy , the tilt angle is approximately proportional to the square root of the difference between the formation and the well - fluid velocities . for the data shown in fig4 , at a measured depth of 742 m , in fig7 we show the stacking semblance as a function of slowness and azimuth , of azimuth and polar angle , and of slowness and polar angle . the highest semblance value is for a slowness 210 μs / m ( 4750 m / s ), at azimuth φ = 156 °, and polar angle θ = 44 °, corresponds to the direct shear . the reason why it appears to be from a specific azimuth and polar angle is most likely because the tool is not perfectly centered in the well . the smearing of the plot of polar angle versus slowness along a hyperbolic curve , is along a fixed phase velocity . having established the parameters for wave - field component 1 , we estimate this wave field using equation 8 , and remove it . on the residuals , we find the next most coherent wave field , etc . this process is repeated 4 times , giving estimates of the 5 most coherent components of the wave field ( in hierarchical order ). fig8 , 9 , 10 , and 11 , respectively , show the stacking semblance for the 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th most coherent wave fields . the estimated parameters for these wave fields are summarized in table 1 , below . fig1 shows the velocities and phase velocities for the shallowest few records below 746 m . the component with a velocity around 1500 m / s is most likely a stoneley mode , the component with velocity around 3300 is most likely the shear and the one with velocity around 5000 is most likely the compressional . the larger phase velocities for these components indicate a modest tool eccentering . the “ wave - field stripping process ” proceeds according to the above , starting with the wave field giving the highest semblance value . having established the parameters for wave - field component 1 , we estimate this using equation 8 , and remove it . on the residuals , we find the most coherent wave field , etc . this process was repeated 4 times , giving estimates of the 5 most coherent components of the wave field ( in hierarchical order ). we have applied this decomposition technique to data acquired in the well schematically described in fig1 . the data were acquired by the schlumberger sonic scanner tool , using the cbl - setting of the tool . in this mode , the tool records data from all 8 azimuths , but only the 5 receiver rings nearest to the source . the operating frequency in this mode is 25 khz . the 175 m interval over which the data shown in fig1 were acquired is indicated with a yellow marker in the schematics . the data were acquired from within a 7 ″ casing with the objective is to see behind the casing . the data show a rather obvious and significant change in character at a depth ( md ) of 3427 m , above which the amplitude for the earliest arrival increases abruptly . it is natural to assume that this is where the cement ends between the 7 ″ casing and the formation , 34 m above the 3461 m indicated on fig1 . this change is further confirmed by the wave - field decomposition analysis , the results of which are summarized in fig1 and 16 . the figures show the phase slowness ( inverse of velocity ) for the 5 most energetic plane waves . deeper than 3427 m , the stoneley is the most energetic component . above 3427 m , the most energetic component runs at 181 ± 3 μs / m , or a velocity of 5525 ± 100 m / s — the compressional ( extensional ) velocity in steel . from fig1 , it is clear that at depths shallower that 3427 m , the steel - compressional wave is by far the strongest . it is almost like hitting a resonating bell when there is no cement behind the casing . isolation scanner acquires data at frequencies between 200 and 500 khz . the data we show in fig1 , acquired in the same well ( fig1 ) as the sonic scanner data discussed in the previous section , but at a shallower depth , across what was assumed to be the top of the cement outside the 9⅝ - in casing at 2250 m ( md ). the data , sampled at 1 μs has clearly been aligned by placing the reflection from the 7 - in casing at 100 μs . this time shifting appears to have been done in a circular fashion such that data that is shifted off the record at the end of the data , reappears at early times . this is what you will get if you are using a frequency - domain operator to shift the data . this rather is convenient in that the original data are easily reconstructed by the reverse operation . the event meandering between the 100 and 180 μs has most likely been refracted along the 9⅝ - in casing , indicating that this casing is touching the 7 - in casing at several points , at around 2180 m , 220 m and 2310 m , along the 160 m long depth interval . from fig1 , showing the relative bearing of the tool , it appears that the tool itself made 3 full rotations over the 160 m long interval . this complete dataset has been migrated , using equations [ 12 ] and [ 13 ]. in accordance with zeroug and froelich ( 2003 ) we assume that the dominant mode , relevant to our objectives , excited in the 7 - in pipe is flexural with a propagation velocity of 3240 m / s . for the fluid velocity , we used a value of 1480 m / s . unfortunately the two receivers available for the isolation scanner does not allow us to use the higher - resolution estimation of these velocities , like we could do for the sonic scanner data . a sector of the migrated image is shown in fig1 . the display shows the distance away from the center of the well , as a function of depth along the well . ( please , notice that the aspect ration of this figure is about 1 : 300 .) fig2 shows the same migrated image as in fig1 , but with the 7 - in casing removed by a median filter . on the residual , the next big event was automatically picked . these picks are indicated by the blue dots on the image . the spatially connected object described by the picked blue dots in fig2 are shown in 3d in fig2 . from the picked events , we next extract their eccentricity relative to the center of the 7 - in casing , the average diameter around the azimuths , and the “ ovality ”- which we define as the difference between the maximum and minimum diameter relative to the average . these parameters are shown in fig2 . the set of parameters for the object is consistent with it being identified as the 9 5 / 9 casing . in fig2 a and 23b , we show the mean absolute reflection amplitudes within a 2 - cm window around the blue - dot object in fig2 . higher - amplitude abnormalities in the amplitude plot are indicated by red arrows . we interpret the abnormality , from 2220 m and up , to be indicating the absence of cement or patchy cement outside the casing for this top section . if this is the top - of - cement this is about 30 m shallower than the well sketch in fig1 indicated . the higher - amplitude event that appears to be cork - screwing around the pipe deeper ( red arrows ), could be an indication of a channel behind the casing . 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