PCB 2044: WELL LOGGING AND FORMATION EVALUATION 2014; ASSIGNMENT: SONIC POROSITY< MANGAR MAWUT MABENY MAWUT
(PE-18582)
ANSWERS 1.
t: known as interval transit time or slowness time is the time required
for a sound wave to traverse 1 feet of formation, it is the reciprocal of the velocity of the sound wave. Depends on
Litho logy Porosity
2. tf: Is the transit time of the saturating fluid or simply fluid travel time.
Its value is about 189 microseconds per feet (189s/ft).
3. tma: Is the transit time of the matrix material 4. If the formation has gas, t read too high values. This is because gas
transmit sound at lower velocities (high transit times) than water. It would also be slowed down.
5. Compensating porosity for gas:
Since the time averaged derived porosity is too high, it is compensated by multiplying the time averaged derived porosity by 0.7 in gas bearing formation time averaged-derived porosity by 0.9 in oil bearing formations
6. Compensating for oil formations: this can be done by multiplying the 7. To decide if the formation is compacted, a value of 100 s in nearby
shale is used.
8. The compaction correction factor = 100/ tsh 9. From the figure, given sandstone matrix with the correction factor in a nearby shale as 110 s/ tsh , tf = 189s/ft , t = 97.5 s/ft, tma = 57 (sandstone) t - tma = tf - tma = 0.279 x 100 = 27.9 % Awns. tsh
100
97.5 57 189 - 57
100 110
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