Wireline Logging

Introduction

12/21/2010
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Wireline logs: continuous recording of specific properties versus
depth, plotted on several types of charts.1

We mentioned before that Wireline is an armored cable, attached to

its end specific instruments to record some helpful measurements.

This Wireline is lowered into the borehole after the drill string is
pulled up at the end of each major stage of drilling.

Wireline tools record all measurements while being raised up from the
borehole when they pass by various rock layers.

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Examples will be shown in the proceeding researches.

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As shown in the previous figure, wireline logging system consists of a
mobile laboratory [truck], the armored cable, and the sonde at the
lowered end of the wireline.

The wireline can be hundreds of feet long.

Types of wireline logging:

1- Wireline openhole logging

2- Wireline cased hole logging

Wireline Openhole Logging:

It’s done after the borehole section is completed and the drill string is
pulled out.

Openhole tools:

 Gamma ray
 Natural gamma ray spectrometry
 Spontaneous potential
 Caliper
 Density
 Sonic
 Resistivity
 Formation pressure

Wireline Cased Hole Logging:

It’s done after the hole is cased and a completion string run to produce
the well.

Cased-hole tools:

 Cement bong log

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  Casing collar locator
 Production logging
 Thermal decay tool
 Gamma ray spectrometry

All these measurements tools will be discussed in details through our

coming researches.

Random photos of wireline tools:

The mobile laboratory

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References:

1- Darwin V. Ellis, Well Logging for Earth Scientists

2- John Gluyas, Petroleum Geoscience
3- Toby Darling, Well Logging and Formation Evaluation