Main control system and a device for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11280932-B2
Application number	US-201916420010-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2019
Priority date	May 23, 2018
Publication date	Mar 22, 2022
Grant date	Mar 22, 2022

Abstract

Provided are a main control system and a device for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool, the system includes: a digital signal processor, an auxiliary measurement module, a pulse signal generation module and a memory disposed in a downhole drilling tool; wherein the digital signal processor is communicatively connected to an upper computer arranged on the ground, the auxiliary measurement module and the pulse signal generation module respectively; the memory is communicatively connected to the pulse signal generation module. The main control system and a device for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool achieve the effect of improving the accuracy of the logging data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool, comprising: a digital signal processor and a memory disposed in a downhole drilling tool; wherein
the digital signal processor is communicatively connected to an upper computer disposed on the ground, and receives and parses a control instruction sent by the upper computer, causes an auxiliary measurement to be completed by the auxiliary measurement module according to the control instruction, and causes a pulse signal to be transmitted by a pulse signal generation module according to the control instruction;
the memory is communicatively connected to the digital signal processor, and the digital signal processor further causes the pulse signal generation module to collect an echo signal generated by the pulse signal in the underground formation, and send the echo signal to the memory and store it in the memory; and
the digital signal processor is further caused to acquire the echo signal from the memory according to a signal acquisition instruction sent by the upper computer, process and compress the echo signal, and return the processed and compressed echo signal to the upper computer;
wherein a transmission of the pulse signal and a reception of the echo signal use a single antenna, and the pulse signal generation module is further caused to isolate, bleed, attenuate, and scale process the pulse signal,
wherein a bleeder circuit is used to perform rapid discharge of antenna energy and a scale control signal is first transmitted to test an accuracy of the main control system of the nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool before a formal test.

2. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool further comprises a digital signal frequency generator;
the digital signal frequency generator is communicatively connected to the digital signal processor for providing a uniform clock signal for the digital signal processor.

3. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the digital signal processor is further caused to temporarily store the echo signal and process the echo signal by a digital phase sensitive detection algorithm.

4. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the digital signal processor is further caused to perform data inversion and data compression processing on the echo signal.

5. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 4 , wherein the digital signal processor is further caused to:
communicatively connect to the upper computer, and send the echo signal that has been subjected to the data inversion and data compression processing by the digital signal processor to the upper computer.

6. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the upper computer and the digital signal processor are communicatively connected through an Rs 485 serial bus.

7. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the control instruction comprises a pulse sequence parameter, an isolation control signal, a bleed control signal, an attenuation control signal, and a scale control signal, wherein the pulse sequence parameter is configured to control the digital signal processor to cause the pulse signal generation module to transmit the pulse signal according to the pulse sequence parameter;
the isolation control signal, the bleed control signal, the attenuation control signal, and the scale control signal are used to control the digital signal processor to cause the pulse signal generation module to isolate, bleed, attenuate, and scale process the pulse signal, respectively.

8. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary measurement comprises an acceleration measurement, a well inclination measurement, and an angle measurement;
wherein auxiliary measurement data is sent to the digital signal processor in real time, so that the digital signal processor returns the auxiliary measurement data to the upper computer.

9. A nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling device, comprising: the downhole drilling tool and an uphole data processing device;
the downhole drilling tool is provided with the main control system for the nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 1 ;
the uphole data processing device is the upper computer disposed on the ground.

10. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 2 , wherein the digital signal processor further causes the pulse signal generation module to transmit the pulse signal according to the uniform clock signal to improve a corrcction correlation between the echo signal and a well depth, and
the digital signal frequency generator is further caused to communicatively connect to the memory for providing a clock signal for the memory, and the memory periodically transmits the stored echo signal to the digital signal processor and the digital signal processor returns the processed and compressed echo signal to the upper computer for a view of user, and the memory associates the stored echo signal with a current time to improve the correlation between the stored echo signal and the well depth.

11. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 3 , wherein a first input first output (FIFO) in the digital signal processor temporarily stores the echo signals.

12. The main control system for a nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling tool according to claim 6 , wherein the RS485 serial bus adopts differential signal negative logic so as to realize point-to-point communication.

Assignees

• China Univ Of Petroleum—Beijing
• Univ China Petroleum Beijing

Inventors

• Liao Guangzhi
• Xiao Lizhi
• Xu Yangyang
• Liu Wei
• Wei Yao

Classifications

• E21B47/14

  using acoustic waves · CPC title

• G05B19/0423 Primary

  Input/output · 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

• E21B47/0224

  using seismic or acoustic means · CPC title

• G01V3/32 Primary

  operating with electron or nuclear magnetic resonance · CPC title