Full WaveformAcousticLogging

RES 1.6

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Full

waveform

tions
role

acoustic

have expanded
of

determining

wave velocity
development

geology

and successful
stage

for

field

a wide

These include
pressional

the

widemodels,

have set

the

applications.

determinations

vast

amounts of information

trains.

The recovery

requires

the

of waveform
cal

data

analysis

and attenua-

dealt

properties

fracturing,

and the

in surface

relevant

to hydraulic

detection

of natural

In many areas,
data

and charac-

fractures.

tool

acquisition

development

There

information

large

quantities

light

of theoretiwaveguide.

a unique

to geophysicists
with

are

on the wave

the borehole
provides

opportunity
who have

similar

problems

seismic.

In this

paper

propagation

and interpretation.

acoustic

logs

Full

and

laboratory

waveform

are made up of a complex

of seismic

normal

modes guided

gation

and attenuation

we first

body waves and

by the borehole.

results

Propa-

seismograms

and field

data,

properties

affect

modes on full

waveform

acoustic

we discuss

full

waveform

approaches

reservoir
data.

and

Then using

how formation

Finally,

the wave

in elastic

formations.

(synthetic)

used to obtain

of each mode is

review

in a borehole

in porous-permeable

are ahead of data

analysis

combination

of

in the

successfully

theoretical
field

formation

of this

analysis

models for

This

by the

at each frequency.

and challenge

of com-

velocities

differently

porosity-permeability,

mechanical
terization

theoretical

range of

to

The

new tools,

tests

and shear

lithology,

tions,

and shear

and production.

better

affected
properties

in an open hole,

of versatile

band waveforms,

applica-

traditional

compressional

profiles

availability

logging

from the

we show

different
logs.
that

properties

may be
from