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Platform Express: It's About Time
Platform Express: It's About Time
Features
■ Overall length greatly reduced
through the use of integrated
sensors and reengineering
■ Extremely robust electronic 90 ft
packaging and mechanical
design
■ All components built to rigor-
Platform Express
ous LWD shock standards
■ Real-time speed correction
■ Thirty percent shorter skid
with improved pad application
■ Integrated Rxo measurement 38 ft
■ Density, Rxo and Rt measure-
ments, and deep and shallow
azimuthal images
■ Real-time depth matching and
borehole correction Houston, Texas
32E-001234
US DOT 253896
Platform Express measurements Two Platform Express logging configurations are available for resistivity measurement. The vertical
Platform Express sensors set new resolution for each measurement is shown in the blocks on the right. These, in combination with the
new sensor design, provide better, more accurate measurements, leading to improved interpretation
standards in formation evaluation and reserves calculations.
accuracy. Resistivity measurements
are made with either the AIT* Array
Induction Imager Tool or the High-
Resolution Azimuthal Laterolog Sonde
(HALS), both with a 12-in. maximum
vertical resolution.
Sensors for the Three-Detector
Lithology Density (TLD) and Micro-
Cylindrically Focused Log (MCFL)
measurements are integrated in the HGNS
Highly Integrated GR
single pad of the High-Resolution Gamma Ray 24 in.
Mechanical Sonde (HRMS), which Neutron Sonde
presses against the formation. The
TLD log is a backscatter-type density φN
measurement with 16-, 8- or 2-in. ver- 24 in.
tical resolution. The MCFL microresis-
tivity measurement, which investigates
the same volume of the formation as
the density measurement, has 2-in.
vertical resolution. Flex joints greatly
improve pad application in rough holes. Electronics
The Highly Integrated Gamma Ray cartridge
Neutron Sonde (HGNS) provides gamma
ray and neutron porosity measure-
ments with a standard vertical reso-
lution of 24 in. Alpha processing is
available to achieve 12-in. vertical ρb, Pe
16, 8
resolution of the neutron log.
or 2 in.
Real-time speed correction and
automatic depth matching of all meas- HRMS
urements are provided by an acceler- High-Resolution
ometer for much faster turnaround on Mechanical
Sonde Rxo, hmc
wellsite processing. 2 in.
HALS AIT
High-Resolution Array Induction Rt
Azimuthal Imager Tool 12 in.
Laterolog
Sonde
Articulated tool design for enhanced The HRMS skid is innovatively linked with flex joints for improved pad application.
pad-to-borehole wall contact and
tool descent
Flex joints enable the Platform Express
sonde to hinge or rotate slightly as the
tool body travels into and out of rough Flex
hole sections. A second pair of arms Flex joint
applies force directly to the back of joint
the skid, below its center, to keep the
skid face pressed against the wall when
the caliper arm hits a ledge. Together
with the shorter pad, the additional
backup arm and flex joints deliver
significantly improved measurements
in rough and deviated holes.
The short length and articulated
design of the sonde enable it to suc-
cessfully traverse wells with a short
radius of curvature and wells contain-
ing severe doglegs.
Flex
joint
Flex
joint
The short length and articulated design make descent in short-radius and crooked wells easy.
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Oriented HALS images provide valuable measurements in wells where no dipmeter data have been recorded.
Permeable zones real-time environmental corrections. HMIN and HMNO are the two micro-
This Texas example shows the 2-ft ver- The MCFL log is plotted to confirm log curves computed from the MCFL
tical resolution curves with five depths the AIT readings, and the resistivity data. The red shading indicates thick
of investigation across several perme- standoff—another exclusive mea- mudcake over these highly permeable
able zones. The Platform Express mud surement of the Platform Express zones.
resistivity measurement is used for system—is computed from the MCFL.
Platform Express system accurately and quickly measures resistivity and shows permeable zones.
HALS resistivity well in France in combination with an
The ability to plot both shallow and inclinometer tool, the pad orientation
deep high-resolution azimuthal images curves appear in the image tracks.
is another unique Platform Express Dip estimates can be made where the
feature. In this log, recorded in a test tool face orientation and hole deviation
and azimuth are known.
X705
X710
X715
X720
X725
X730
X735
X740
Shallow Deep 1:150 High-Resolution Laterolog Deep (HRLD)
Image Image (m)
0.02 (ohm-m) 2000
High-Resolution Laterolog Shallow (HRLS)
0.02 (ohm-m) 2000
MCFL with FMI image and X655 m in this Argentina well Core photograph comparison
Overlay of the MCFL curve with the is visible on both the MCFL data and The high-resolution data obtained by
borehole image derived from the FMI* the FMI image. the Platform Express tool can be used
Fullbore Formation MicroImager con- to identify impermeable laminations
firms the high vertical resolution of in the formation that can act as flow
Platform Express data. Conductivity barriers to production. In this well,
variation in the zone between X652 there was concern about the continuity
MCFL measurements correlate well with FMI images for the identification and characterization of thin beds.
of limestone streaks in the formation, or the nature of the coring operation of the reservoir with no additional
which would help contain water below (the coring process created rounded water cut.
the reservoir section and enhance the fragments of a thin layer). However, The high-resolution (2-in.) density
steamflood of the reservoir. The core the consistent response of the TLD and photoelectric factor measurements
data are not definitive: only limestone and MCFL to these thin layers revealed clearly resolve the carbonate layers
cobbles were recovered, and they could the continuity of the laminations, and and, with the addition of the 2-in.
represent either the nature of the the operator was able to complete the resolution Rxo from the MCFL, also
deposition (nonbarrier cobble layer) zone closer to the known water contact identify thin oil-bearing layers.
Detailed comparison to core photographs confirms the resolution of the Platform Express system.
Core Photograph
18-in. Resistivity
Ultraviolet-Light
Standard Core
2 (2-in.) 7
Photograph
1 (ohm-m) 100
TDL 2-in. Density
(RHOI) 2-in. Resistivity
Depth
(1:20 ft) 1.65 (g/cm3) 2.65 1 (ohm-m) 100
XX32
XX33
XX34
XX35
XX36
XX37
XX38
XX39
XX40
XX41
XX42
XX43
Customized answers descending and red to orange where The well trajectory plot clearly
The integrated z-axis accelerometer in climbing in angle. Displaying the com- shows the well turning up before it
the Platform Express system enables puted lithology color plot on the well enters the anhydrite layer. A line drawn
speed correction of all data and deter- trajectory is ideal for showing not along the sand/anhydrite contact indi-
mination of the wellbore deviation, only the position of a horizontal well cates that the boundary has a uniform
which is used to compute true vertical but also its attitude in reference to structural dip along the section, which
depth (TVD) logs and plot the well- intersected lithologic features. effectively eliminates the possibility
bore position of highly deviated and In this example, the well penetrated of a second anhydrite bed and the
horizontal wells. This customized plot salt and anhydrite layers out of casing fault theory. The well simply reentered
combines the measured-depth data and entered the sand reservoir. After the caprock anhydrite and then went
with a horizontal depth coordinate 75 m in the sand, the well entered an back into the sand reservoir. Without
system originating at the bottom of anhydrite layer and then went back the Platform Express well deviation
the well. The color-coded bar next to into a sand. Were there two anhydrite data, this analysis would have been
the depth track indicates the direction layers or one displaced by a fault? delayed until other well deviation data
of the well relative to horizontal (90° Or did the well turn up and reenter could be correlated to the log data to
deviation)—green to black where the anhydrite layer above the reservoir? explain the lithology changes.
Porosity
Resistivity
Depth
1:1000
(m)
Well Trajectory
Speed correction Oriented HALS images provide valuable measurements in wells where no dipmeter data have been recorded.
The importance of real-time speed
correction from the accelerometer
data is shown in this Texas example.
Despite the rough hole conditions and Rxo Density 1:50 ft Rxo Density
irregular tool movements, the curves 0.1 (ohm-m) 100 1.70 (g/cm3) 2.70 0.1 (ohm-m) 100 1.70 (g/cm3) 2.70
Caliper
after speed correction (on the right) AIT-H Curves Neutron AIT-H Curves Neutron
10 20
are consistent. The MCFL, AIT and (ohm-m) 60 (p.u.) 0 (in.) (ohm-m) 60 (p.u.) 0
porosity curves track, resulting in X090
more accurate water saturation calcu-
lations—especially in thin permeable
beds. Improved depth matching at
about X095 shows clearly on the
enlarged depth scale. The off-depth
data to the left are without speed
correction.
X100
Density in bad hole
This Texas well was drilled with
barite—a heavy mud that presents
problems for Litho-Density* tools.
Substantially improved density measurement in bad hole conditions is possible with the Platform Express TLD tool.
Comparison of the Platform Express
density values with Litho-Density data
in the washouts clearly demonstrates
how Platform Express technology
greatly improves log quality in rough
holes. The TLD results are in excellent
agreement with the DSI data (shown
in green on the right), which are rela-
tively unaffected by washouts. The
better quality density measurements
also facilitate petrophysical and seis-
mic analyses.
Platform Express revolutionary reengineering of wireline logging is only Specifications
38 ft long and weighs 600 lbm.
Length 38 ft
Weight 690 lbm
Max OD 33⁄ 8 in
Min OD 45⁄ 8 in
Temperature rating 260°F
Pressure rating 10,000 psi
Hole size 6 to 16 in.
Max logging speed 3600 ft/hr
HGNS
Highly Integrated
Gamma Ray
Neutron Sonde
Electronics
cartridge
HRMS
High-Resolution 38 ft
Mechanical
Sonde
HALS AIT
High-Resolution Array Induction
Azimuthal Imager Tool
Laterolog
Sonde
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