Radiant energy – Geological testing or irradiation – Well testing apparatus and methods
Patent
1996-08-19
1997-08-19
Glick, Edward J.
Radiant energy
Geological testing or irradiation
Well testing apparatus and methods
250265, G01V 512
Patent
active
056591691
ABSTRACT:
A method of measuring the density of an earth formation penetrated by a wellbore. The method includes irradiating the earth formation with gamma rays from a source, detecting Compton scattered gamma rays at a plurality of locations spaced apart from the source along the wellbore, calculating an apparent density of the formation from the detected gamma counting rate at each of the locations, calculating differences in apparent density between pairs of the apparent densities, calculating a correction for the apparent density from a distal one of the locations by scaling the differences in apparent density according to an empirical relationship, and calculating the density by combining the correction with the apparent density from the distal one of the locations. In a preferred embodiment, the empirical relationship is determined by measuring the apparent densities and differences in apparent density at a plurality of known values of density of the formation and a plurality of values of density and thickness of a medium interposed between the formation, and the source and the spaced apart locations. Scaling coefficients are determined by minimizing the value of an error function representing the difference between the known value of the density and the density determined according to the empirical relationship.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5390115 (1995-02-01), Case et al.
patent: 5530243 (1996-06-01), Mathis
Mathis Gary L.
Mickael Medhat W.
Fagin Richard A.
Glick Edward J.
Western Atlas International Inc.
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