Pad alignment with a multi-frequency-band and multi-window semblance processing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10989832-B2
Application number	US-201916504574-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2019
Priority date	Jul 8, 2019
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A method and system for pad alignment may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking a measurement with the electrode with at least one operating frequency, correcting the measurement to account for local formation dip, constructing a window with a predetermined size H, identifying a number of adaptive filters to be utilized, extracting one or more frequency components from the measurement with the adaptive filters, identifying a semblance value of a reference dataset and a target dataset, assembling the semblance values for the reference dataset and the target dataset, identifying the semblance values of the reference dataset and target datasets over the range of relative pad shifts, identifying a pad shift, and forming one or more images of the pad shirt or the semblance of the reference dataset and target data set. The system may comprise a mandrel, one or more pads, and electrodes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for pad alignment comprising:
disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, wherein the downhole tool comprises:
a mandrel, wherein the mandrel is a structural support for the downhole tool;
two or more pads, wherein the two or more pads are connected to the mandrel and the two or more pads are split into a first set of pads and a second set of pads; and
one or more electrodes, wherein the one or more electrodes are disposed on each of the two or more pads;
taking a measurement at the first set of pads and the second set of pads with the one or more electrodes with at least one operating frequency;
correcting the measurement to account for local formation dip;
constructing a window with a predetermined size H;
identifying a center frequency for each of the two or more pads from the measurements at the first set of pads and the second set of pads;
constructing an adaptive filters for each of the two or more pads based on the center frequency for each of the two or more pads;
applying the adaptive filter to the measurements at the first set of pads and the second set of pads;
extracting one or more frequency components from the measurement with the adaptive filters for each of the two or more pads;
identifying a semblance value of a reference dataset and a target dataset, where the reference data set is the measurements from the first set of the two or more pads and the target dataset is the measurements from the second set of the two or more pads;
assembling the semblance value for the reference dataset and the target dataset;
identifying the semblance value of the reference dataset and target dataset over a range of relative pad shifts;
identifying a pad shift; and
forming one or more images of the pad shift or the semblance of the reference dataset and target dataset.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising repeating constructing the window with a second predetermined size H.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the window determines a resolution.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the semblance value is performed through a stacking procedure, wherein a maximum semblance value gives the relative pad shift.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein one or more adaptive weights are applied during the stacking procedure to suppress noise.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the semblance value is performed through constructing a histogram of the semblance values, wherein a maximum occurrence gives the relative pad shift.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying a first threshold and a second threshold.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising performing a quality control on the semblance value based at least in part on the first threshold and the second threshold.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transforming the measurement to a frequency domain.

10. A system comprising:
a downhole tool comprising:
a mandrel, wherein the mandrel is a structural support for the downhole tool;
two or more pads, wherein the two or more pads are connected to the mandrel and the two or more pads are split into a first set of pads and a second set of pads; and
one or more electrodes, wherein the one or more electrodes are disposed on each of the two or more pads and are configured to take a measurement;

an information handling system configured to:
correct the measurement to account for local formation dip;
construct a window with a predetermined size H;
identify one or more adaptive filters to be utilized;
identify a center frequency for each of the two or more pads from the measurement at the first set of pads and the second set of pads;
construct an adaptive filter for each of the two or more pads based on the center frequency for each of the two or more pads;
apply the adaptive filter to the measurement at the first set of pads and the second set of pads;
extract one or more frequency components from the measurement with the adaptive filters for each of the two or more pads;
identify a semblance value of a reference dataset and a target dataset where the reference data set is the measurements from the first set of the two or more pads and the target dataset is the measurements from the second set of the two or more pads;
assemble the semblance value for the reference dataset and the target dataset;
identify the semblance value of the reference dataset and target dataset over a range of relative pad shifts;
identify a pad shift; and
form one or more images of the pad shift or the semblance of the reference dataset and target data set.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to repeat construct the window with a second predetermined size H.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the window determines a resolution.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to identify the semblance value is performed through a stacking procedure, wherein a maximum semblance value gives the relative pad shift.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein one or more adaptive weights are applied during the stacking procedure to suppress noise.

15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to identify the semblance value is performed through constructing a histogram of the semblance values, wherein a maximum occurrence gives the relative pad shift.

16. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to identify a first threshold and a second threshold and perform a quality control on the semblance value based at least in part on the first threshold and the second threshold.

17. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to transform the measurement to a frequency domain.

18. The system of claim 10 , wherein the information handling system is further configured to construct the window with a second predetermined size H that determines a resolution and identify the semblance value is performed through a stacking procedure.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the information handling system is further configured wherein a maximum semblance value gives the relative pad shift.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the information handling system is further configured wherein one or more adaptive weights are applied during the stacking procedure to suppress noise.

Assignees

• Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Inventors

• Ewe Wei-Bin
• Wang Ruijia

Classifications

• G01V3/24 Primary

  using AC · CPC title

• E21B49/00

  Testing the nature of borehole walls; Formation testing; Methods or apparatus for obtaining samples of soil or well fluids, specially adapted to earth drilling or wells · CPC title

• E21B47/0025 Primary

  generating an image of the borehole wall using down-hole measurements, e.g. acoustic or electric · CPC title

• G01V3/02

  operating with propagation of electric current · CPC title

• G01V3/38 Primary

  Processing data, e.g. for analysis, for interpretation, for correction · CPC title