Nuclear magnetic resonance technique for determining gas effect

Details Nuclear magnetic resonance technique for determining gas effect Nuclear magnetic resonance technique for determining gas effect

1995-03-23

1997-10-21

O'Shea, Sandra L.

Electricity: measuring and testing

Particle precession resonance

Using well logging device

G01V 314

Patent

active

056800436

ABSTRACT:
An NMR pulse sequence technique for use in the borehole environment is provided which uses CPMG pulses according to
where j is the index of the CPMG echoes gathered, i is the index of the wait times in the pulse sequence, W.sub.i are the varying wait times before the CPMG pulses, and tcp is the Carr-Purcell spacing. Measurements are made of the signals induced in the formation as a result of the magnetic fields to find the spin-echo relaxation time T1. Using T1, the gas effect on formation parameters may be derived. Also, gas saturation and gas chemical composition can be derived. In addition, the diffusion coefficient of gas under reservoir conditions can be more than ten times larger than that of water, making the T.sub.2 relaxation time of gas more sensitive to static magnetic field gradients. In formations where gas occupies pores larger than about 10 .mu.m, this T.sub.2 effect (effect of diffusion on the measured T.sub.2 relaxation times of gas) can be used to identify gas even though the tool gradients are not uniform.

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