Seismic while drilling : fundamentals of drill-bit seismic for exploration /

Seismic While Drilling: Fundamentals of Drill-Bit Seismic for Exploration, 2nd edition, revised and extended gives a theoretical and practical introduction to seismic while drilling by using drill-bit noise. While drilling seismic methods using surface sources and downhole receivers are also analyse...

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Main Authors: Poletto, Flavio (Author), Miranda, Francesco (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2022.
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Seismic While Drilling
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the authors
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary of main symbols
  • Conversion factors for the main physical quantities
  • 1 Introduction and overview
  • 1.1 Geophysics for exploration and drilling
  • 1.2 Conventional borehole seismic methods
  • 1.2.1 Vertical seismic profile
  • 1.2.2 Typical acquisition geometries of conventional VSP
  • 1.2.3 Conventional processing of VSP data
  • 1.2.4 Other uses of conventional VSP
  • 1.2.5 Synthetic seismogram
  • 1.2.6 Integrated interpretation of well seismic data
  • 1.3 Motivation for seismic while drilling
  • 1.4 History of the use of the drill-bit signal
  • 1.4.1 Measuring the drilling vibrations
  • 1.4.2 Other fields and methods of application
  • 1.4.3 Overview of the tools utilized for SWD
  • 1.5 SWD method
  • 1.6 Main products obtainable while drilling
  • 1.7 Measurement while drilling and SWD perspectives
  • 2 Principles of drilling
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Drilling a well
  • 2.3 Main well components
  • 2.3.1 Drilling site
  • 2.3.2 Derrick
  • 2.3.3 Rig power system
  • 2.3.4 Drawwork
  • 2.3.5 Rope lines
  • 2.3.6 Mobile-hoisting block
  • 2.3.7 Rotary systems
  • Top drive
  • Rotary-table or kelly system
  • Downhole-rotary systems
  • Downhole motors
  • Turbines
  • Use of positive-displacement motors and turbines
  • 2.3.8 Roto-percussive systems
  • 2.3.9 Drilling floor or rotary kelly-bush level
  • 2.3.10 Wellhead and blowout preventers
  • 2.3.11 Drill string
  • Drill pipes
  • Bottomhole assembly (bha)
  • Drill-string loads
  • Drill-string dimension and safe rotary speeds
  • 2.3.12 The bit
  • Roller-cone bit
  • Natural diamond bits
  • Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bit
  • 2.3.13 Special bits
  • 2.3.14 Casing
  • 2.3.15 Pumps
  • 2.3.16 Drilling mud.
  • 2.3.17 Mud circulating line
  • 2.3.18 Logistics and laboratories
  • 2.3.19 Drilling parameters and mudlogging
  • 2.3.20 Measurement while drilling and mud-pulse telemetry
  • Mud pulse
  • Wired pipes
  • Electromagnetic
  • Acoustic telemetry in pipes
  • 2.3.21 Logging while drilling
  • 2.3.22 Pressure sampling while drilling
  • 2.3.23 Wellsite communication systems
  • 2.4 Drilling offshore
  • 2.5 Directional and deviated wells
  • 2.5.1 Directional drilling
  • Monitoring directional drilling
  • Axial loads in directional wells
  • Drill-string rotation and axial forces
  • 2.5.2 Horizontal and extended-reach drilling
  • 2.5.3 Multi-lateral wells
  • 2.5.4 Steering of drilling
  • 2.5.5 Slim holes and coil tubing
  • 2.6 Designing a well
  • 2.6.1 Evaluation of the borehole pressure
  • 2.6.2 Selection of the casing depths (seats)
  • 2.6.3 Design of the mud plan and subsurface well control
  • 2.6.4 Design of the bottomhole assembly
  • Dogleg severity, drill-pipe fatigue and key-seat problems
  • Sticking of pipes
  • Other problems related to doglegs
  • 2.6.5 BHA rigidity and drill-string stabilization
  • Packed-hole assembly
  • Pendulum assembly
  • Reducing weight on bit
  • 2.6.6 Stiffness of the drill collars
  • Design of the cross sections and bending stresses
  • Bottomhole-assembly buckling
  • 2.6.7 Bit planning
  • Formation hardness/abrasiveness
  • Directional control and bit type
  • Bit selection and drilling method
  • Bit size
  • Bit and rotary speed
  • Evaluation of bit wear
  • 2.7 Classification of drill-bit types
  • 2.7.1 Roller-bit classification according to IADC
  • A Major-group (or ``series'') classification
  • B Sub-group (or ``type'') classification
  • C Specialty feature
  • Bit cones
  • 2.7.2 Diamond-bit classification
  • PDC bits
  • Fixed cutter classification according to IADC
  • 3 General theory: drill-bit seismic waves
  • 3.1 Introduction.
  • 3.2 Reciprocity principle
  • 3.3 Normal while-drilling VSP
  • 3.4 Drill-bit seismic source for RVSP
  • 3.4.1 Drill-bit signal characterization
  • 3.5 Total drilling power
  • 3.5.1 Energy losses for drill-string torque friction
  • 3.5.2 Effects of drag friction
  • 3.5.3 Downhole motor drilling
  • 3.6 Energy analysis in terms of drilling parameters
  • 3.6.1 Specific energy-required to drill a unit volume of rock
  • 3.6.2 ``Perfect-cleaning'' theory of drilling
  • 3.6.3 Dimensionless drilling parameters
  • 3.6.4 Rotary-drilling model (dimensionless parameters)
  • 3.7 Energy balance in rock fracture
  • 3.7.1 New-surface energy
  • 3.7.2 ``Elastic-strain'' (heat) energy
  • 3.7.3 Stress waves produced in loading/unloading
  • 3.8 Radiation of energy from the bit (far-field effects)
  • 3.8.1 Radiation from a surface harmonic force
  • 3.8.2 Radiation from a downhole harmonic force
  • 3.8.3 Integrated downhole-radiation impedance
  • 3.8.4 Total P+SV power radiated in the formation
  • 3.8.5 Radiation from a nonharmonic force
  • 3.9 Near-field effects
  • 3.9.1 Phase of the harmonic wave components
  • 3.9.2 Near-field axial displacement
  • 3.9.3 Energy flux and near-field effects
  • 3.9.4 Complex impedance
  • 3.9.5 Waves from a pressure source at the origin
  • 3.9.6 Relationship between rotary-drilling power and radiated power
  • 3.10 Balance of the borehole and radiated power
  • 3.10.1 Measuring the power of axial drill-string waves
  • 4 General theory: drill-bit seismic sources
  • 4.1 Introduction: drill-bit versus conventional seismic sources
  • 4.2 Roller-cone bit as a periodic vibration source
  • 4.2.1 Vibrations induced by teeth indention
  • 4.2.2 Vibrations induced by lobed patterns
  • 4.2.3 Pore pressure and roller-cone bit forces
  • 4.2.4 Effects of teeth wear on roller-cone vibrations
  • 4.3 Roller-cone bit as a wideband seismic source.
  • 4.3.1 Unevenness of the formation, random breakage process
  • 4.3.2 Bandwidth amplification by vibration-mode coupling
  • Torsional modulation of lobe-axial vibrations
  • 4.3.3 Roller-cone bit as a high-frequency source
  • 4.4 PDC bit as a vibration source
  • 4.5 Analysis of PDC single-cutter forces
  • 4.5.1 Direction of single-cutter force
  • 4.5.2 Influence of wear on PDC performance parameters
  • 4.5.3 Influence of downhole pressure on cutter forces
  • 4.6 Dynamic variation of PDC-cutter forces
  • 4.6.1 Dynamic models of the PDC axial vibrations
  • 4.6.2 PDC bit forces and drilling parameters
  • 4.7 Summary of large bit-vibration modes
  • 4.8 Percussion drilling as a SWD source
  • 4.8.1 Field test by diamond-bit and percussion drilling
  • 4.9 Bit vibrations induced by mud-pressure modulation
  • 4.10 Numerical examples of drill-bit vibrations
  • 4.11 Radiation properties of conventional sources
  • 4.11.1 Vibroseis source
  • Single vertical vibrator
  • Array of vertical vibrators
  • 4.11.2 Radiation from marine sources
  • Air and water guns
  • 4.12 Radiation from drill-bit and conventional sources
  • 5 General theory: drill-string waves and noise fields
  • 5.1 Introduction: drill-string vibration analysis
  • 5.2 Drill-string waves
  • 5.2.1 Axial drill-string waves
  • 5.2.2 Torsional drill-string waves
  • 5.2.3 Transversal and flexural drill-string waves
  • Vibrating-rope approximation
  • Bending vibrations
  • 5.2.4 Coupled extensional and flexural drill-string waves
  • 5.3 Attenuation of extensional waves
  • 5.3.1 Attenuation of vibrations by shock absorbers
  • 5.4 Waves in periodic and non-periodic drill strings
  • 5.4.1 Wave propagation in periodic strings
  • 5.4.2 Wave propagation in non-periodic strings
  • 5.4.3 Group velocity in non-periodic string
  • 5.4.4 Average drill-string properties
  • Average dynamic properties.
  • Average static properties
  • 5.4.5 Group velocity at low frequency
  • Examples of group velocity
  • 5.5 Drill-bit mud waves
  • 5.5.1 Acoustic properties of drilling mud
  • 5.5.2 Velocities of the acoustic mud waves
  • 5.5.3 Sensitivity analysis for acoustic mud velocity
  • 5.5.4 Guided waves in SWD data
  • 5.5.5 Velocities of the mud-guided waves
  • 5.5.6 Sensitivity analysis for velocity of mud-guided waves
  • 5.6 Coupled pipe-mud-formation guided waves
  • 5.6.1 Dispersion and polarization of coupled pilot waves
  • 5.6.2 Conical head waves in the formation (borehole radiation)
  • Mach shear waves
  • Drill-string head waves
  • 5.7 Summary of drill-string waves
  • 5.8 Surface/rigsite noise wavefields
  • 5.9 Drill-string noise and borehole interactions
  • 5.10 Drill-string transmission line
  • 5.10.1 Reflection coefficients in the drill string
  • Reflection coefficients for flexural motions
  • Drill-string rigidity and reflection coefficients
  • 5.11 Bit/rock reflection coefficient
  • 5.11.1 Bit/rock reflection coefficient (plane-wave approximation)
  • The constitutive equations (bit/rock contact)
  • Real bit/rock reflection coefficient (plane waves)
  • Bit/rock coefficient and formation impedance
  • 5.11.2 Complex bit/rock reflection coefficient (near-field approximation)
  • 5.11.3 Drill-string waves and near-field effects
  • Complex bit/rock coefficient
  • 5.11.4 Bit-source displacement model with penetration
  • 5.12 Dual fields in the drill string
  • 5.12.1 Dual (displacement and strain) reflection coefficients
  • Reflection coefficients of displacement waves
  • Reflection coefficients of strain waves
  • 5.12.2 Dual fields in the drill-string transmission line
  • 5.12.3 Dual near-bit measurements
  • 6 SWD acquisition: tools and systems
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Signal recognition and acquisition layout
  • 6.3 Pilot sensors and transducers.