Effects of Casing on Full Waveform Acoustic Logs
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Tubman, Kenneth M.; Cheng, C. H.; Toksoz, M. Nafi
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory
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A general expression is derived for the dispersion relations and the impulse response of a radially layered borehole. The. model geometry consists of a central fluid cylinder surrounded by an arbitrary number of solid annuli. A Thomson-Haskell type propagator matrix is used to relate stresses and displacements across the layers. Although the model is completely general, the geometries considered here are restricted to those of a cased hole. Layers of steel, cement, and an infinite, outermost layer of a formation surround the fluid layer. Synthetic seismograms containing all body and interface waves are calculated for a variety of model parameters.
Formation body wave arrivals are relatively unaffected by the presence of a casing. They may, however, be hard to identify if the cement velocities are close to or larger than those of the formation. The Stoneley and pseudo-Rayleigh wave arrivals are predominantly influenced by the casing parameters. They respond to the combined effects of the steel, the cement, and the formation.
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1983Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory
Series/Report no.
Earth Resources Laboratory Industry Consortia Annual Report;1983-03