BASIC MULTI-FINGER CALIPER PROCESSING SEQUENCE

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – DEPTH CORRECTION
Caliper->Depth Correction...

Table to store depth correction definitions

Depth points and local shift

Extrapolate stretch function above and below

definitions

LH mouse action toggle – enter depths or normal

zoom

Add new / delete current depth correction rows in

table

Table open/save

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – EDITING
Caliper->Caliper Edit…

Table name to store edit definitions

Edit definition

Average: Mean average of neighbours

Median: Set to median arm value at this depth

Kill: Set arm value to zero, ignored by centralisation algorithm

All: All arms re-constructed by depth interpolation between top &

bottom depths

Depth range of edit

LHM clicks can be used for depth/arm entry or zoom depending

on selection

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – CENTRALISATION
What is Centralisation…

The tool centre line may not be exactly at the pipe centre line due to gravity (in deviated wells), tool vibration or deformed pipe.

For accurate measurement of pit depths, the raw caliper data needs to be corrected for this effect.

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 CENTRALISATION ALGORITHM

MIPS performs centralisation of the multi-arm data by calculating least-squares fit

of a sinusoid at each depth frame.

Magnitude and direction of eccentricity

Radius
3.5

2.5
Arm number
2

1.5
Mean Radius "Perfect" Un-Centralised Data
1 Least squares fit
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 "Real World" Data
Actual data
0.5

-0.5

-1

-1.5

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – CENTRALISATION

Caliper->Centralisation
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Robust options reject outlying arm values from calculation.

Normally reject 0, 1 or 2 arms ‘Maxima’.

Normal mode is ‘Calculate and Apply’

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RECALIBRATION
When do we recalibrate – how can we recalibrate…

• Data from a well-calibrated caliper should be left alone

• Recalibration changes the measured data – justification may be required
• Great care should be taken when “calibrating out” data anomalies – they may be REAL

• When recalibration is necessary the following points need to be considered when considering the most appropriate
method:
• Are there any completion items of known, accurate ID?
• Tubing does not have to be totally circular
• If a caliper is badly calibrated – how accurate is the median?
• The API tolerance on tubing ID makes it very unreliable…
• Generalised corrosion/thin scale can change IDs

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RECALIBRATION

• Known ID – from engineered profiles

• Median – shifts each arm average to median average of all

arms

• Histogram – shifts each arm modal average (Histogram peak)

to the average of all arms

• Possible to create multi-zone recalibrations; even using

different recalibration types

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RECALIBRATION
Caliper->Recalibrate : Zones Definition

• Details of recalibration zones returned from separate

forms

• Add zone of chosen recalibration type

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Processing->Recalibrate : Shift Application

Shifts for each arm at zone centre depths are stored in ‘Shifts
table’. These can be applied with ‘Apply’ options.

Options to calculate/graph shift values

Options for Centralisation of data before/after shift calculation

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RECALIBRATION
Histogram Zone Definition

Depth range to calculate histogram

Histogram definition

Histogram display settings

Display input / output histogram

Calculation mode – Joint option requires Pipe

Ends Table

Calculation of expected ID

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RECALIBRATION
Input vs Output Histograms

Histogram recalibration calculates a histogram of the radii of each arm over a calibration zone, then calculates and applies the shift
required to make the histogram peak of each arm equal to the median value of the input histogram peaks

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – SPLICE / MERGE
Caliper->Splice / Merge...

To join two ‘runs’ together or add curves from a different tool:

• Select logs from two input .mip1 files

• Select logs from each file

• Select depth range from each file

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RE-ORIENTATION
Caliper -> Re-Orientation

Select azimuth log in ‘Log Selection’ tab

Define direction and upper arm when azimuth is zero

Option to rotate tool by constant angle

Option to not rotate but calculate ToolUpside curve only

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LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – RE-ORIENTATION
What is Re-Orientation
Arm #1

The relative bearing of Arm #1 is recorded at each depth along with the caliper data.

This allows the multi-arm data to be rotated so features can be identified relative to the high side of the pipe.

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – STATISTICS
Caliper-> Statistics

Add well details here, using ‘Lookup’ to populate pipe dimensions.

For caliper processing only ’inner’ pipe required.

‘Run’ to calculate statistics curves…

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MIPSPRO LOG PROCESSING OPTIONS – STATISTICS

Curves added by statistics processor

See online Help for detailed descriptions

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