Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging

by C. Richard Liu

Overview

Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging provides a much-needed and complete analytical method for electromagnetic well logging technology. The book presents the physics and mathematics behind the effective measurement of rock properties using boreholes, allowing geophysicists, petrophysisists, geologists and engineers to interpret them in a more rigorous way.

Starting with the fundamental concepts, the book then moves on to the more classic subject of wireline induction logging, before exploring the subject of LWD logging, concluding with new thoughts on electromagnetic telemetry. Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging is the only book offering an in-depth discussion of the analytical and numerical techniques needed for expert use of those new logging techniques.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128040089
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/08/2017
Pages:	732
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Liu has been the director of well logging lab at the University of Houston for more than 26 years. He has worked on research projects related to microwave passive and active networks, RF circuit design, radio systems and networking, numerical computation of electromagnetic scattering and propagation, hardware and software design of ground-penetrating radar systems, electromagnetic tomography, microwave telecommunication systems, electrical properties of rocks, and well logging. He has graduated more than 50 Ph.D and MS students in the area of well logging and subsurface sensing. He has published more than 150 papers in this area.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Well Logging2. Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields and Induction Logging Tools3. Electrical Properties of Sediment Rocks: Mixing Laws and Measurement Methods4. Triaxial Induction and Logging-While-Drilling Resistivity Tool Response in Homogeneous Anisotropic Formations5. Triaxial Induction Tool and Logging-While-Drilling Tool Response in a Transverse Isotropic-Layered Formation6. Triaxial Induction and Logging-While-Drilling Logging Tool Response in a Biaxial Anisotropic-Layered Formation7. Induction and LWD Tool Response in a Cylindrically Layered Isotropic Formation8. Induction and Logging-While-Drilling Resistivity Tool Response in a Two-Dimensional Isotropic Formation9. Theory of Inversion for Triaxial Induction and Logging-While-Drilling Logging Data in One- and Two-Dimensional Formations10. The Application of Image Theory in Geosteering11. Ahead-of-the-Bit Tools and Far Detection Electromagnetic Tools12. Principle of Dielectric Logging Tools13. Finite Element Method for Solving Electrical Logging Problems in Axially Symmetrical Formations14. Resistivity Imaging Tools15. Laterolog Tools and Array Laterolog Tools16. Theory of the Through-Casing Resistivity Logging Tool17. Electromagnetic Telemetry System and Electromagnetic Short Hop Telemetry in a Logging-While-Drilling/Measuring-While-Drilling Tool

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From the Publisher

A single source for in-depth discussion of advanced analytical and numerical techniques for electromagnetic logging and applications

Editorial Reviews

"The book’s strengths are in its systematic and balanced treatment of the fundamentals of the needed mathematical physics and in its coverage of the advancement of the research frontiers of well-logging practice." —The Leading Edge

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