CA2232654A1 - Nmr well logging apparatus and method - Google Patents

Nmr well logging apparatus and method

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CA2232654A1
CA2232654A1 CA 2232654 CA2232654A CA2232654A1 CA 2232654 A1 CA2232654 A1 CA 2232654A1 CA 2232654 CA2232654 CA 2232654 CA 2232654 A CA2232654 A CA 2232654A CA 2232654 A1 CA2232654 A1 CA 2232654A1
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magnetic field
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nuclei
wellbore
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Gersh Taicher (Zvi)
Arcady Reiderman
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Western Atlas International Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01V—GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS
    • G01V3/00—Electric or magnetic prospecting or detecting; Measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination, deviation
    • G01V3/18—Electric or magnetic prospecting or detecting; Measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination, deviation specially adapted for well-logging
    • G01V3/32—Electric or magnetic prospecting or detecting; Measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination, deviation specially adapted for well-logging operating with electron or nuclear magnetic resonance

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Abstract

A nuclear magnetic resonance well logging apparatus including a magnet for inducing a static magnetic field in a substantially cylindrically shaped sector located in earth formations penetrated by a wellbore. The sector subtends an angle of about 60 degrees. The sector is located only on one side of the wellbore and has a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the wellbore. The apparatus also includes a transmitter for generating a radio frequency magnetic field in the sector for exciting nuclei.
The radio frequency magnetic field and the static magnetic field substantially satisfy nuclear magnetic resonance excitation conditions substantially exclusively within the sector. The apparatus includes a receiver for detecting nuclear magnetic resonance signals from the excited nuclei. In one embodiment of the invention, the static magnetic field has a longer dimension along the longitudinal axis than the active length of the transmitter, and the active length of the transmitter is greater than the active length of the receiver so that only fully polarized nuclei are excited by the radio frequency magnetic field and NMR
signals are detected only from fully radio frequency-excited nuclei.
CA 2232654 1997-05-02 1998-03-18 Nmr well logging apparatus and method Expired - Fee Related CA2232654C (en)

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US85062397A 1997-05-02 1997-05-02
US08/850,623 1997-05-02
US08/960,498 US6018243A (en) 1997-10-29 1997-10-29 NMR well logging apparatus and method
US08/960,498 1997-10-29

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GB2324872A (en) 1998-11-04
FR2762912A1 (en) 1998-11-06
IL123924A (en) 2000-12-06
GB9807254D0 (en) 1998-06-03
ID20242A (en) 1998-11-05

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