Pulsed electromagnetic dipmeter method and apparatus employing coils with finite spacing

• US 5,115,198 A
• Filed: 09/14/1989
• Issued: 05/19/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Halliburton Logging Services Incorporated Houston TX
• Original Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Inventors: Gianzero, Stanley C., Su, Shey-Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Snow, Walter E.
• Application Number:
  US07/407,089
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 324/338, 324/339, 324/340, 324/342, 324/343, 324/346, 324/336
• US Class Current: 324/339
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/28 using induction coils

Abstract

The transmitter and receiver coils (35,40) in an electromagnetic dipmeter (10) are separated by a finite spacing (L) to remove borehole positional effects. Dip and strike are then determined with the same methods available for zero spacing devices by pulsing the transmitter signal.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic dipmeter apparatus for determining properties of formations penetrated by a well borehole, the apparatus including transmitter and receiver coil means adapted for movement through such a borehole, the dipmeter apparatus comprising:

means fixedly mounting said transmitter and receiver coil means on a supportive structure for movement through a borehole;

means coupled to the transmitter coil means for transmitting a transient pulse signal into adjacent formations to induce in the receiver coil means a received formation orientation dependent signal characteristic of such formations,

measuring means connected with the coil means for measuring said formation orientation dependent characteristic signal, and

means associated with said measuring means for determining, from measured formation orientation dependent characteristic signal, at least the strike of the adjacent formation.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said coil means comprises at least one fixedly mounted transmitter coil and at least one fixedly mounted receiver coil.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said receiver coil is separated from said transmitter coil by a predetermined finite spacing along the supportive structure.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said fixedly mounted coil means are sufficiently spaced apart that borehole compensated.

5. An electromagnetic dipmeter for determining the dip and strike of formations penetrated by a borehole, the dipmeter including transmitter and receiver coil means adapted for movement through such a borehole, the dipmeter comprising:

means fixedly mounting said transmitter and receiver coil means on a supportive structure for movement through a borehole;

means coupled to the coil means for transmitting a transient pulsed signal into adjacent formations to induce in the coil means a received time-dependent signal characteristic of such formations,

measuring means associated with the coil means for measuring said time-dependent characteristic formation signal, and

means associated with said measuring means for determining, from said measured time-dependent characteristic formation signal, at least dip and strike information of the adjacent formation.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said coil means comprises at least one transmitter coil and at least one receiver coil.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said receiver coil is separated from said transmitter coil by a predetermined finite spacing along the supportive structure.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said coil means comprises at least two orthogonal transmitter coils and three orthogonal receiver coils.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said fixedly mounted coil means further are sufficiently spaced apart that comprises borehole compensated signals are obtained thereby.

10. An electromagnetic dipmeter for determining the dip and strike of formations penetrated by a borehole, the dipmeter including coil means having at least two orthogonal, horizontally oriented transmitter coils and three orthogonal receiver coils adapted for movement through such a borehole, the dipmeter comprising:

means fixedly separating the receiver coils from the transmitter coils by a predetermined finite spacing,

means coupled to the transmitter coils for transmitting a repeated pulse signal into adjacent formations to induce in the receiver coils a received time-dependent signal characteristic of such formations,

measuring means associated with the coils for measuring said time-dependent characteristic formation signals, and

means associated with said measuring means for determining, from said measured time-dependent characteristic formation signal, at least dip and strike information of the adjacent formation.

11. An electromagnetic logging metod for determining properties of formations penetrated by a borehole, comprising:

fixedly mounting spaced apart orthogonal transmitter coils and receiver coils on a supportive structure for movement through a borehole;

transmitting a transient pulse electromagnetic signal into the formations and receiving an induced time-dependent signal indicating positional aspects of such formations,

measuring said time-dependent signal, and

determining from said measured time-dependent signal at least the strike of the adjacent formation.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said transmitting and receiving step further comprises transmitting with at least one transmitter coil and receiving with at least one receiver coil.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining at least the dip of the adjacent fromation.

14. An electromagnetic logging method for determining the dip and strike of formations penetrated by a borehole, comprising:

fixedly mounting spaced orthogonally positioned multiple transmitter coils and multiple receiver coils on a supportive structure for movement along a borehole;

transmitting a transient pulsed electromagnetic signal into the formations and receiving an induced positional aspect dependent signal characteristic of such formations,

measuring said positional aspect dependent characteristic formation signals, and

determining from said positional aspect dependent characteristic formation signal at least dip and stike information of the adjacent formation.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein said transmitting and receiving step further comprises transmitting with at least one transmitter coil and receiving with at least one receiver coil. PG,49

16. The method of claim 15 including the step of separating the receiver coil from the transmitter coil by a predetermined finite spacing.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein said transmitting and receiving step further comprises transmitting with at least two orthogonal transmitter coils and receiving with at least three orthogonal receiver coils.

18. An electromagnetic logging method for determining the dip and strike of formations penetrated by a borehole, comprising:

fixedly mounting transmitter and receiver coils along a supportive structure for movement along a borehole;

transmitting, with at least two orthogonal, horizontally oriented transmitter coils, a repeated pulse electromagnetic signal having an initial transient into the formations and receiving, with at least three orthogonal receiver coils separated from the transmitter coils by a predetermine definite spacing, an induced time-dependent signal characteristic of such formations, said transmitting and receiving coils moving along the borehole,

measuring said time-dependent characteristic formation signal, and

determining from said measure time-dependent characteristic formation signal at least dip and strike information of the adjacent formation.