Methods and apparatus for wellbore evaluation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9823374-B2
Application number	US-201414772028-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2014
Priority date	Apr 9, 2013
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A wellbore tool string includes a combination of acoustic inspection tool(s) and electro-mechanical inspection tool(s). The tool string is configured to combine acoustic with electro-mechanic wellbore inspection to circumvent limitations that both technologies may be subject to in wellbore environments. Anomalous data from one or more acoustic tools can be correlated with data acquired by an electro-mechanical tool incorporated into the same tool string to determine wellbore conditions that may have adversely affected the operation of the acoustic tool(s).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wellbore logging system comprising:
a wellbore tool string to be positioned in a wellbore, the wellbore tool string comprising:
an acoustic inspection tool configured to generate data indicative of downhole conditions;
an ultrasonic imaging tool configured to image downhole structures; and
an electro-mechanical inspection tool configured to generate data indicative of wellbore conditions based on electro-mechanical signals generated by the electro-mechanical inspection tool within the wellbore; and

a computing device comprising:
at least one processor, and
at least one machine readable storage device including instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one processor, results in performance of operations comprising:
detecting an anomaly in the data received from at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool; and
correlating a portion of the data received from the electro-mechanical inspection tool with the detected anomaly in the data received from the at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool to determine a possible cause of the anomaly.

2. The wellbore logging system of claim 1 ,
wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving the data from the acoustic inspection tool, data from the ultrasonic imaging tool, and the data from the electro-mechanical inspection tool; and
generating a correlation of the data from the acoustic inspection tool, the ultrasonic imaging tool, and the electro-mechanical inspection tool.

3. The wellbore logging system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise determining a value of a bad shot index associated with an anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool.

4. The wellbore logging system of claim 2 , wherein generating the correlation of the data comprises generating a report that visually depicts the data received from the acoustic inspection tool, the ultrasonic imaging tool, and the electro-mechanical inspection tool.

5. The wellbore logging system according to claim 1 , wherein the acoustic inspection tool comprises a cement bond log tool.

6. The wellbore logging system according to claim 1 , wherein the electro-mechanical inspection tool comprises a multi-finger caliper.

7. The wellbore logging system according to claim 1 , wherein the ultrasonic imaging tool comprises a circumferential acoustic scanning tool.

8. A method of characterizing wellbore conditions using a wellbore tool string, the method comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an acoustic inspection tool of the wellbore tool string;
receiving, by the computing device, data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an electro-mechanical inspection tool of the wellbore tool string;
detecting, by the computing device, an anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool; and
correlating, by the computing device, a portion of the data received from the electro-mechanical inspection tool with the detected anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool to determine a possible cause of the anomaly.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving, by the computing device, data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an ultrasonic imaging tool of the wellbore tool string, and
wherein detecting comprises detecting, by the computing device, the anomaly in the data received from at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool, and
wherein correlating comprises correlating a portion of the data received from the electro-mechanical tool with the detected anomaly in the data received from the at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool to determine a possible cause of the anomaly.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising determining a value of a bad shot index associated with an anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein correlating comprises generating a report that visually depicts the data received from the acoustic inspection tool, the ultrasonic imaging tool, and the electro-mechanical inspection tool.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the ultrasonic imaging tool comprises a circumferential acoustic scanning tool.

13. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
transmitting a first acoustic signal from the acoustic inspection tool into a formation;
receiving, by the acoustic inspection tool, a second acoustic signal from the formation;
outputting, by the acoustic inspection tool, the data indicative of the at least one wellbore characteristic based on the second acoustic signal;

transmitting a third acoustic signal from the ultrasonic imaging tool into the formation;
receiving, by the ultrasonic imaging tool, a fourth acoustic signal from the formation;
outputting, by the acoustic inspection tool, the data indicative of the at least one wellbore characteristic based on the fourth acoustic signal;
engaging a portion of the wellbore with a mechanism of the electro-mechanical inspection tool; generating, the electro-mechanical inspection tool, by an electrical signal based on the engagement of the wellbore with the mechanism; and
outputting, by the electro-mechanical inspection tool, the data indicative of the at least one wellbore characteristic based on the electrical signal.

14. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the acoustic inspection tool comprises a cement bond log tool.

15. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the electro-mechanical inspection tool comprises a multi-finger caliper.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that includes instructions that, if executed by a computing device having one or more processors, result in performance of operations comprising:
receiving data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an acoustic inspection tool included in a wellbore tool string;
receiving data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an electro-mechanical inspection tool of the wellbore tool string;
detecting an anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool; and
correlating a portion of the data received from the electro-mechanical inspection tool with the detected anomaly in the data received from the acoustic inspection tool to determine a possible cause of the anomaly.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions, if executed by the computing device, result in the performance of operations comprising:
receiving, by the computing device, data indicative of at least one wellbore characteristic from an ultrasonic imaging tool of the wellbore tool string, and
wherein detecting comprises detecting, by the computing device, the anomaly in the data received from at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool, and
wherein correlating comprises correlating a portion of the data received from the electro-mechanical inspection tool with the detected anomaly in the data received from the at least one of the acoustic inspection tool and the ultrasonic imaging tool to determine a possible cause of the anomaly.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions, if executed by the computing device, result in the performance of operations comprising determining a value of a bad shot index associated with an ano

Assignees

• Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Inventors

• Mccafferty Shawn Patrick
• Ehinmoro Adewumi
• Foianini Ivo

Classifications

• E21B47/103 Primary

  using thermal measurements · CPC title

• G01V1/40 Primary

  specially adapted for well-logging · CPC title

• G01V11/00

  Prospecting or detecting by methods combining techniques covered by two or more of main groups G01V1/00 - G01V9/00 · 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

• G01V3/28

  using induction coils · CPC title