The present application relates to co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/835,619, entitled “Tool for Azimuthal Resistivity Measurement and Bed Boundary Detection”, and filed Aug. 8, 2007 by inventor Michael Bittar. It also relates to co-pending PCT Application No. PCT/US07/15806, entitled “Modular Geosteering Tool Assembly”, and filed Jul. 11, 2007 by inventors Michael Bittar, Clive Menezes, and Martin Paulk. Each of these references is hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
Modern petroleum drilling and production operations demand a great quantity of information relating to the parameters and conditions downhole. Such information typically includes the location and orientation of the borehole and drilling assembly, earth formation properties, and parameters of the downhole drilling environment. The collection of information relating to formation properties and downhole conditions is commonly referred to as “logging”, and can be performed during the drilling process itself (hence the term “logging while drilling” or “LWD”).
Various measurement tools exist for use in LWD. One such tool is the resistivity tool, which includes one or more antennas for transmitting an electromagnetic signal into the formation and one or more antennas for receiving a formation response. When operated at low frequencies, the resistivity tool may be called an “induction” tool, and at high frequencies it may be called an electromagnetic wave propagation tool. Though the physical phenomena that dominate the measurement may vary with frequency, the operating principles for the tool are consistent. In some cases, the amplitude and/or the phase of the receive signals are compared to the amplitude and/or phase of the transmit signals to measure the formation resistivity. In other cases, the amplitude and/or phase of the receive signals are compared to each other to measure the formation resistivity.
When plotted as a function of depth or tool position in the borehole, the resistivity tool measurements are termed “logs” or “resistivity logs”. Such logs may provide indications of hydrocarbon concentrations and other information useful to drillers and completion engineers. In particular, azimuthally-sensitive logs may provide information useful for steering the drilling assembly because they can inform the driller when a target formation bed has been entered or exited, thereby allowing modifications to the drilling program that will provide much more value and higher success than would be the case using only seismic data. However, the utility of such logs is often impaired by the latency between a drill-bit's penetration of a bed boundary and the collection of log information sufficient to alert the driller to that event.
A better understanding of the various disclosed embodiments can be obtained when the following detailed description is considered in conjunction with the attached drawings, in which:
The following description has broad application. Each disclosed embodiment and accompanying discussion is meant only to be illustrative of that embodiment, and is not intended to suggest that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to that embodiment. To the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
Disclosed herein are logging tools and methods that employ an at-bit loop antenna to acquire azimuthal resistivity measurements proximate to the bit, thereby enabling low-latency geosteering signals to be generated. In some embodiments, the at-bit antenna is part of a bottom hole assembly that includes a drill bit, a mud motor, and a resistivity tool. The at-bit antenna is a loop antenna that is positioned within three feet of the drill bit's cutting face. The mud motor is positioned between the at-bit antenna and the resistivity tool, and it turns the drill bit via a drive shaft. The resistivity tool includes at least one loop antenna that is not parallel to the at-bit loop antenna. The difference in loop antenna orientations is preferably 30° or more. The at-bit antenna is part of an at-bit module that, in some embodiments, transmits periodic electromagnetic signal pulses for the resistivity tool to measure. In other embodiments, the at-bit module measures characteristics of electromagnetic signal pulses sent by the resistivity tool and communicates the measured characteristics to the resistivity tool via a short hop telemetry link. In this way, the resistivity tool cooperates with the at-bit module to obtain azimuthal resistivity measurements near the bit, from which a bed boundary indicator signal can be calculated and displayed to a user.
The disclosed logging tools and methods are best understood in the context of the larger systems in which they operate. Accordingly,
The drill bit 14 is just one piece of a bottom-hole assembly 24 that includes a mud motor and one or more “drill collars” (thick-walled steel pipe) that provide weight and rigidity to aid the drilling process. Some of these drill collars include built-in logging instruments to gather measurements of various drilling parameters such as position, orientation, weight-on-bit, borehole diameter, etc. The tool orientation may be specified in terms of a tool face angle (rotational orientation), an inclination angle (the slope), and compass direction, each of which can be derived from measurements by magnetometers, inclinometers, and/or accelerometers, though other sensor types such as gyroscopes may alternatively be used. In one specific embodiment, the tool includes a 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer and a 3-axis accelerometer. As is known in the art, the combination of those two sensor systems enables the measurement of the tool face angle, inclination angle, and compass direction. Such orientation measurements can be combined with gyroscopic or inertial measurements to accurately track tool position.
Also included in bottom hole assembly 24 is a telemetry sub that maintains a communications link with the surface. Mud pulse telemetry is one common telemetry technique for transferring tool measurements to surface receivers and receiving commands from the surface, but other telemetry techniques can also be used. For some techniques (e.g., through-wall acoustic signaling) the drill string 8 includes one or more repeaters 30 to detect, amplify, and re-transmit the signal. At the surface, transducers 28 convert signals between mechanical and electrical form, enabling a network interface module 36 to receive the uplink signal from the telemetry sub and (at least in some embodiments) transmit a downlink signal to the telemetry sub. A data processing system 50 receives a digital telemetry signal, demodulates the signal, and displays the tool data or well logs to a user. Software (represented in
The drill bit shown in
LWD assembly 212 includes one or more logging tools and systems capable of recording data as well as transmitting data to the surface via the telemetry via 218. As specifically discussed hereinbelow, the LWD assembly 212 includes a resistivity tool having antennas 214, 216 that work cooperatively with antennas near the bit to determine azimuthal resistivity measurements helpful for geosteering. Because of the length of the mud motor, the resistivity tool sensors located in the LWD section are at least 15 feet from the drilling bit, which would normally imply that the azimuthal resistivity measurements available to the driller apply to a drill bit position at least 15 feet behind the current drill bit position. However, with the cooperation of the at-bit loop antennas, the driller can be provided information applicable to the current drill bit position, making it possible to steer the drilling assembly much more precisely than before.
Before describing the methods for making at-bit azimuthal resistivity measurements, it is helpful to provide some further context.
In block 1004, the at-bit module detects pulses in the receive signal and measures their amplitude and phase. Such measurements are performed simultaneously for all receiver antennas, and the timing for such measurements can be set by the LWD assembly via short hop telemetry. In block 1006, the amplitude and phase measurements for each receive signal pulse are time stamped and communicated to the LWD assembly. In some embodiments phase differences and attenuation values between receive antennas are calculated and communicated to the LWD assembly. In at-bit modules having tilted antennas, the rotational orientation of the at-bit module is measured and communicated to the LWD assembly together with the amplitude and phase measurements. The method repeats beginning with block 1004.
Note that in the antenna arrangement formed by the combination of resistivity tool antennas and at-bit antennas, there may be multiple transmit antennas. In most cases, the transmit antennas are fired sequentially and the response of each receiver antenna to each transmit antenna firing is measured. A measurement cycle includes a firing of each transmit antenna. Having synchronized the timing of the two modules in block 1202, the tool in block 1204 begins iterating through each of the transmit antennas, selecting one at a time.
Though the next three blocks are shown and described sequentially, their actual execution is expected to occur concurrently. In block 1206, the tool transmits a pulse from the selected transmit antenna into the surrounding formation or, if the transmit antenna is an at-bit antenna, the tool expects the at-bit module to transmit the pulse. At the same time the transmit antenna is fired, the tool measures the current tool position and orientation in block 1208. In block 1210, the tool (and at-bit module) measure the amplitude and phase of signals received by each of the receiver antennas. At-bit measurements are communicated to the resistivity tool via the short-hop telemetry link. In block 1212, the measured response amplitudes and phases to each transmitter are associated with a measurement bin defined for the current tool position and orientation. The measurements for each transmi-receive antenna pair in that bin are combined to improve measurement accuracy, and from the combined measurements an azimuthal resistivity measurement is formed and updated as new measurements become available. Similarly, boundary indication values are determined for each bin. In optional block 1214, at least some of the resistivity and/or boundary indicator values are communicated via an uphole telemetry link to a surface processing facility for display to a user.
In block 1212, a resistivity measurement and a bed boundary indicator measurement are determined or updated for the bin based on the new amplitude and phase measurement and any previous measurements in that bin. Due to the use of non-parallel transmit and receive antennas (e.g., either the transmitter or receiver is tilted), the resistivity measurements are azimuthally sensitive. In some embodiments, the resistivity measurements are determined from the average compensated amplitude and phase measurement of the current bin, possibly in combination with the average compensated measurements for other nearby bins and other measured or estimated formation parameters such as formation strike, dip, and anisotropy. Compensated measurements are determined by averaging measurements resulting from symmetrically spaced transmitters.
The bed boundary indicator calculations for a bin may be based on a measurement of a non-parallel transmit-receive antenna measurement with either an at-bit transmit antenna or an at-bit receive antenna, e.g., antennas 206 and 214 in
I=(Φ in the current bin)−(Φ in the bin 180° from current bin) (1)
Thus, with reference to
I=ln(A in the current bin)−ln(A in the bin 180° from current bin) (2)
As yet another alternative, rather than taking a difference between phase or log amplitude of bins 180° apart, the difference may be determined between the phase (or log amplitude) for the current bin and the average phase (or log amplitude) for all the bins at a given axial position in the borehole:
where bin(k,z) is the bin at the kth rotational orientation at the zth position in the borehole. It is likely that measurements can be repeated many times for each bin and the phase/amplitude values used are actually averages of these repeated measurements.
We note that
Similar indicators based on the logarithms of signal amplitudes can be calculated.
The system of
The processor 68, and hence the system as a whole, generally operates in accordance with one or more programs stored on an information storage medium (e.g., in information storage device 72). Similarly, the bottom hole assembly control module 504 (
Numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated. It is intended that the following claims be interpreted to embrace all such variations and modifications.
In some embodiments, at-bit transmitter modules automatically transmit periodic high frequency signal pulses without any need for control signals beyond simple on/off state changes which can automatically triggered by detection of drilling activity. To obtain the measurements necessary for boundary detection, it is preferred to have non-parallel transmitter-receiver pairs with a relative tilt angle of at least 30° and more preferably about 45°. For example, if the transmitter coil at the bit is co-axial, the receiver coil should be tilted. Conversely, if the receiver coil is coaxial, the transmitter coil should be tilted. Although the figures show the at-bit antenna embedded on the bit or on the bit box, the at-bit antenna could alternatively be located on the bent sub directly adjacent to the bit box.
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