Schlumberger’s arcVISION array resistivity compensated service and TeleScope service.

The arcVISION
service provided the driller with gamma ray, inclination and annular pressure-while-drilling data, and
TeleScope provided high-speed telemetry-while-drilling. With these two services, the real-time
directional data, needed for the driller to follow the complex will profile, was provided.

Precise well trajectory control

Annular pressure, near-bit, and multiple depth resistivity measurements are transmitted to the surface
simultaneously in real time to maintain accurate trajectory control. Multiple depths of investigation
enable you to monitor invasion and other borehole changes over time. Measurements are compensated
to remove rugosity effects and electronics drift.

The Logging-While-Drilling-arcVISION (LWD-arcVISION) is a compensated array resistivity tool developed

by Schlumberger for medium to large boreholes. The 6.75 in (17 cm) diameter tool makes multiple,
borehole-compensated phase shift and attenuation resistivity measurements at two frequencies: 2MHz
and 400kHz. The tool’s antenna array consists of five transmitters and two receivers to achieve both a
range of depths of investigations as well as borehole compensation. Multiple depths of investigation are
useful to differentiate between borehole effects, invasion, shoulder beds, and anisotropy. Borehole
compensation is important because it significantly reduces the effects of borehole rugosity. In addition
to the resistivity measurements, the arcVISION also provide a non-azimuthal gamma ray measurement
performed with a plateau sensor (NaI detector) and annular pressure-while-drilling (APWD), including
real-time static pressure.

The arcVISION tool can be operated in memory mode or in real-time mode in combination with the
TeleScope MWD tool; also, it is combinable with any other LWD tool.

Applications

Formation anisotropy. The separation between the vertically matched resistivities can be used to
discriminate between invasion and formation anisotropy.

Lithology. Identification of impermeable beds – the resistivity curves will match in shales.
Logging While Drilling Induction Tools

Schlumberger introduced the compensated dual resistivity (CDR) tool which allowed log data to be
transmitted up the wellbore by mud pulses.[1] Storage devices at the bottom of the drillstring allow the
driller to retrieve raw data when the bottom hole assembly (BHA) is pulled. The CDR tool uses a 2-MHz
electromagnetic wave to measure the difference between phase shift and amplitudes measured
downhole.

Resistivity While Drilling

Propagation Measurement

Las medidas de propagacion son hechas por la sustraccion del salto de fase y la atenuacion (amplitudes)
of the voltages captured at the two receivers.[2] Because both attenuation and phase shift are
proportional to formation conductivity, these propagation measurements can be used to generate
resistivity logs. The measurements are then averaged to account for the roughness of the borehole. This
averaging is referred to as borehole compensation.

Phase shift and attenuation are recorded as two separate measurements, RPS (phase shift, shallow) and
RAD (attenuation, deep). Service companies often perform there own dialectric correction on the data
due to the 2 MHz dialectric effect at high resistivity levels.

Multiarray propagation tools

Schlumberger produced the ARC5 (array resistivity compensated tool) in the 1990s. The ARC5 is capable
of making 5 independent phase shift and attenuation measurements. The ARC5 configuration consists of
five transmitters and two receivers. This configuration is able to record 5 phase shifts and 5 raw
attenuations.

These curves are used for thin-bed analysis, as well as correlation and comparison with other logs.