An efficient solution for the response of electrical well logging tools in a complex environment

Author

Chew, Weng Cho ; Nie, Zaiping ; Liu, Qing-Huo ; Anderson, Barbara

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

29

Issue

2

fYear

1991

fDate

3/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

308

Lastpage

313

Abstract

A symmetrical form of the solution for an electrical source in a multibed well-logging environment is derived. The method uses local reflection and transmission operators of a single-bed boundary and a general recursive algorithm to derive generalized reflection and transmission operators. Using this method, the computation time scales linearly as N, where N is the number of beds in the environment. A computer program was developed to implement the solution. The program is robust and generates accurate results from 20 kHz to 25 MHz

Keywords

geophysical prospecting; geophysical techniques; terrestrial electricity; 20 to 25000 kHz; EM method; borehole; complex environment; computer program; efficient solution; electrical method; generalized operator; geoelectric; local reflection; multibed; prospecting; recursive algorithm; response; single-bed boundary; technique; transmission operators; well logging tool; Conductivity; Dielectric constant; Dielectric measurements; Electromagnetic measurements; Finite element methods; Geologic measurements; Geophysical measurements; Petroleum; Reflection; Well logging;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.73673

Filename

73673