Processing of Seismic-While-Drilling Data from the DrillCAM System Acquired with Wireless Geophones, Top-Drive, and Downhole Vibrations Sensors

Autor: Ilya Silvestrov, Emad Hemyari, Andrey Bakulin, Yi Luo, Ali Aldawood, Flavio Poletto, Yujin Liu, Yue Du, Anton Egorov, Pavel Golikov
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Day 3 Tue, November 30, 2021.
DOI: 10.2118/204543-ms
Popis: We present processing details of seismic-while-drilling data recently acquired on one of the onshore wells by a prototype DrillCAM system with wireless geophones, top-drive, and downhole vibration sensors. The general flow follows an established practice and consists of correlation with a drillbit pilot signal, vertical stacking, and pilot deconvolution. This work's novelty is the usage of the memory-based near-bit sensor with a significant time drift reaching 30-40 minutes at the end of each drilling run. A data-driven automatic time alignment procedure is developed to accurately eliminate time drift error by utilizing the top-drive acceleration sensor as a reference. After the alignment, the processing flow can utilize the top-drive or the near-bit pilots similarly. We show each processing step's effect on the final data quality and discuss some implementation details.
Databáze: OpenAIRE