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History of Well Logging
History of Well Logging
Carlos Torres-
Torres-Verdín,
Verd n, Ph.D.
PGE368
Fall 2002
Modern
Wireline (Open Hole) Logging Tools
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MODERN WELL-
WELL-LOG DISPLAY
North Sea Sandstone
Modern Electrical
Log:
Italy 1992
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Directional Drilling System
Toroid
Buttons Ring Toroid
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LWD Borehole Resistivity
Imaging
Geosteering (1990)
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Extended Reach Drilling at Wytch Farm, UK
MODERN
OFFSHORE
OIL RIG
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Los Angeles Oil Field, 1925
10 000 ft (3 km)
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Cores
And Rock Cuttings
Schlumberger Brothers
Conrad Marcel
Schlumberger Schlumberger
1878—1936 1884—1953
Graduated Graduated
École École Centrale
Polytechnique Joined in 1919
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I agree to disburse to my sons Conrad and
Marcel the funds necessary for research
study in view of determining the nature of
the subsurface, in amount not exceeding
five hundred thousand francs. On their
part, my sons will agree not to disperse
their efforts. . . . The field of activity is vast
enough to satisfy their inventive genius by
its investigations. They must devote
themselves to it entirely. The scientific
interest in research must take precedence
over financial interest.
The sums disbursed by me are a
contribution on my part to primarily
scientific and secondary practical work
which I consider to be of the highest
value…
Marcel will bring to Conrad his remarkable
competence as an engineer and his
common sense. Conrad for his part will be
the wise physicist. I will support them.
CONRAD
SCHLUMBERGER
(Ecole de Mines, Paris)
1912
MARCEL
SCHLUMBERGER
(Vitré,
Vitr , France)
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Magnetic permeability is the only property of rocks and minerals
that has been used so far to investigate the subsurface of the
earth by observations made at the surface…[Among] other
properties also lending themselves to remote sensing, such as
density, elasticity, electrical permittivity, permeability to X-
rays…the electrical conductivity is particularly attractive.
Conrad Schlumberger
Etude sur la prospection electrique du sous sol (1920 edition)
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SURFACE
POTENTIOMETER
1920
Conrad Schlumberger
standing before his
potentiometer while his wife
Louise (center) and daughter
Annette talk at Val-Richer,
Normandy
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Conrad Schlumberger and potentiometer,
Saint-
Saint-Éloy
loy--les-
les-Mines, France
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BOREHOLE
DC RESISTIVITY
Carottage Électrique
lectrique
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HENRI DOLL, 1940
Pechelbronn
Paris
The first electrical log Strasbourg
Bordeaux Lyon
Societe de prospection electrique
Resistivity (ohm-m)
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10
5
Depth
200 m 250 m
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FIRST LOG
(PECHELBRONN, FRANCE)
1927
SUMMARY
1912: Conrad conceives the idea for electrical measurements
1919: Marcel joins his brother – first work in Normandy
1921: They open the office in Paris, rue Saint-Dominique
1923: During the next 3 years, they conduct geophysical surveys
in Romania, Serbia, Canada, South Africa, Congo, USA
1926: Create the “Société de Prospection Électrique”
1927: First electrical log in Pechelbronn, France
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LOGGING
ACTIVITY
BOREHOLE
SP
(SPONTANEOUS
POTENTIAL)
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FIRST LOG
(1927)
SP,
SP Gradient,
And
Lithology
Interpretation
FIRST LOG
OVERSEAS
(Venezuela,1929)
Resistivity
at
La Rosa
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ONE OF THE FIRST ELECTRICAL LOGGING TRUCKS
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Winch and Recorder
1929
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HENRI DOLL and TECLINOMETER DIPMETER
Baku,
Baku, USSR, 1933
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Source: Oilfield Review
Carottage Électrique
lectrique
AT LAST!
1990
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DIPOLE SONIC
MULTI-
MULTI-RECEIVER
ARRAY
(Data Display)
Source: Schlumberger
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Modern Wellbore
Fluid-
Fluid-Flow Tester
And
In-
In-Situ
Fluid Sampler
In-
In-Situ
Optical
Formation Fluid Analysis
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NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE LOGGING
Logging-
Logging-While-
While-Drilling and Real-
Real-Time Drill-
Drill-Bit Steering
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PERMANENT MONITORING
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TIME-
TIME-LAPSE
CROSS-
CROSS-WELL TOMOGRAPHY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
! Schlumberger
! Baker Atlas Well Logging Services
! Halliburton
! Michael Oristaglio
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