SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Processing velocity and Q logs from borehole sonic logs

• VP and QP logs from monopole sonic logs

• VS and QS logs from dipole sonic logs
  Reference: The Leading Edge (2006), SEG Expanded Abstracts (2004, 2005)

Laboratory ultrasonic simulation of sonic logs using scaled realistic earth-borehole models

• Fast and slow formations

• Uniform, layered and other earth models

• Uniform and irregular borehole caliper

• Monopole and dipole

• Iso-offset and multi-offset source-receiver configurations
  Reference: SEG Expanded Abstract (2006)

Synthetic sonic microseismograms and dispersion curves

• Uniform borehole in uniform, isotropic, viscoelastic formations

• Uniform borehole in uniform, isotropic, poroelastic formations

• Uniform borehole in uniform, vertically transversely isotropic (VTI), viscoelastic formations

• Irregular borehole in layered, vertically transversely isotropic (VTI), viscoelastic formations (available soon)

• Uniform borehole in horizontally transversely isotropic (HTI), viscoelastic formations with or without single vertical fractures
  References: Geophysics and JASA papers

Interpretation of sonic logs (available soon)
 

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December 28, 2012