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Through tubing cement evaluation using borehole resonance mode

US11970931B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 1, 2021
Grant dateApr 30, 2024
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Expiry dateJan 10, 2043

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01V2200/16
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A method and system for identifying bonding between a material and tubing. The method may include disposing an acoustic logging tool in a wellbore, wherein the acoustic logging tool comprises a transmitter, a receiver, or a transceiver, broadcasting a shaped signal with the transmitter such that the shaped signal interacts with a boundary of a casing and a material and recording a result signal from the boundary with the receiver. The method may further comprise identifying a cut-off time to be applied to the result signal, transforming the result signal from a time domain to a frequency domain, selecting one or more modes sensitive to a bonding at the boundary between the casing and the material, computing a decay rate of the one or more modes that were selected based at least one or more decay curves, and converting the decay rate to a bonding log.

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