Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Xuekai Sun

Christopher Ayadiuno

Chris B Ayadiuno

Carlos Planchart

Wei Li

Christopher B Ayadiuno

Methods and systems for determining a drilling-induced rock damage map are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a sonic dataset, including sonic waveforms recorded at a plurality of source-receiver separations for a plurality of source positions along an axis of a wellbore. The method further includes determining a log of a first metric using the sonic dataset and determining a map of a second metric using the sonic dataset. The method still further includes determining the drilling-induced rock damage map based, at least in part, on the log of the first metric and the map of the second metric.

Method to determine drilling-induced rock damage

A method including obtaining, by a computer processor, a sonic waveform for each of a plurality of source and receiver positions along a borehole, and a sonic wave propagation velocity of a target event for the plurality of positions. Further, performing, a linear moveout correction on the sonic waveforms based on the velocity and stacking the linear moveout corrected waveforms to generate a stacked waveform at the plurality of positions. The method further includes determining an arrival-time of the target event on the stacked waveforms based on an extremum of a first objective and predicting a candidate arrival-time of the target event for the sonic waveform at the plurality positions based on the arrival-time of the target event on the stacked waveforms, and the sonic velocity. The method still further includes determining an arrival-time for the target event on the sonic waveform at the plurality positions within the borehole based on the candidate arrival-time of the target event and an extremum of a second objective function.

Method and system for automatic picking of borehole acoustic events based on new objective function

A method of realizing an shear wave propagation velocity anisotropy characterization within a display for a wellbore region including, obtaining a shear wave propagation velocity anisotropy intensity, and a shear wave propagation velocity anisotropy azimuth. A directional line segment is determined to represent the anisotropy for each of a plurality of measured depth points along the wellbore, and plotted on the display as a plurality of directional line segments to produce a 1-dimensional anisotropy characterization plot.

Method for characterizing azimuthal anisotropy using cross-dipole sonic data

The present disclosure describes methods and systems for estimating dispersion spectra for full waveform sonic (FWS) logging. One computer-implemented method includes receiving FWS data, performing frequency-spatial (FX) transform on the FWS data, using a nonstationary predictive error filtering (PEF) inversion on the transformed FWS data to estimate local matrix L and matrix P, calculating an inverse covariance matrix based on the estimated local matrix L and matrix P, and obtaining a nonstationary maximum likelihood method (MLM) spectra based on the inverse covariance matrix.

Nonstationary maximum likelihood method to estimate dispersion spectra for full waveform sonic logging

A method for full-waveform sonic (FWS) wavefield separation includes receiving FWS data; performing an anti-aliasing linear Radon transform on the received FWS data; extracting Radon-transformed FWS data corresponding to a wave component using a slanted window; and determining signals of the wave component by performing an inverse Radon transform on the extracted Radon-transformed FWS data.

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