Seismic While Drilling
Fundamentals of Drill-Bit Seismic for Exploration
- 2nd Edition - August 13, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: F.B Poletto, F. Miranda
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 1 4 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 1 4 6 - 3
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Request a sales quoteSeismic While Drilling: Fundamentals of Drill-Bit Seismic for Exploration, 2nd edition, revised and extended gives a theoretical and practical introduction to seismic while drilling by using drill-bit noise. While drilling seismic methods using surface sources and downhole receivers are also analysed. The goal is to support the exploration geology with geophysical control of drilling, and to build a bridge between geophysicists involved in seismic while drilling, drillers and exploration geologists.
This revised and extended edition includes new topics such as novel drilling technology, downhole communication, ground-force drill-bit measurement, SWD seismic interferometry, and fiber optic (DAS). A new section is dedicated to well placement and geosteering. Like the first edition, Seismic While Drilling, 2nd edition also includes examples of SWD analysis and application on real data.
- Addresses fundamental knowledge on geophysical principles related to acoustics and seismic waves as well as basic borehole waves and drilling
- Includes new technological and methodological developments since the publication of the first edition
- Provides new examples for applications in geothermal and analysis of diffractions, offshore marine, and tunnel seismic while drilling (TSWD)
Academic and research scientists in geophysics, seismology, and exploration geology. Seismic drillers and equipment developers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Quotes
- About the authors
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of main symbols
- Conversion factors for the main physical quantities
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Introduction and overview
- Abstract
- 1.1. Geophysics for exploration and drilling
- 1.2. Conventional borehole seismic methods
- 1.3. Motivation for seismic while drilling
- 1.4. History of the use of the drill-bit signal
- 1.5. SWD method
- 1.6. Main products obtainable while drilling
- 1.7. Measurement while drilling and SWD perspectives
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2: Principles of drilling
- Abstract
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Drilling a well
- 2.3. Main well components
- 2.4. Drilling offshore
- 2.5. Directional and deviated wells
- 2.6. Designing a well
- 2.7. Classification of drill-bit types
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: General theory: drill-bit seismic waves
- Abstract
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Reciprocity principle
- 3.3. Normal while-drilling VSP
- 3.4. Drill-bit seismic source for RVSP
- 3.5. Total drilling power
- 3.6. Energy analysis in terms of drilling parameters
- 3.7. Energy balance in rock fracture
- 3.8. Radiation of energy from the bit (far-field effects)
- 3.9. Near-field effects
- 3.10. Balance of the borehole and radiated power
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4: General theory: drill-bit seismic sources
- Abstract
- 4.1. Introduction: drill-bit versus conventional seismic sources
- 4.2. Roller-cone bit as a periodic vibration source
- 4.3. Roller-cone bit as a wideband seismic source
- 4.4. PDC bit as a vibration source
- 4.5. Analysis of PDC single-cutter forces
- 4.6. Dynamic variation of PDC-cutter forces
- 4.7. Summary of large bit-vibration modes
- 4.8. Percussion drilling as a SWD source
- 4.9. Bit vibrations induced by mud-pressure modulation
- 4.10. Numerical examples of drill-bit vibrations
- 4.11. Radiation properties of conventional sources
- 4.12. Radiation from drill-bit and conventional sources
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5: General theory: drill-string waves and noise fields
- Abstract
- 5.1. Introduction: drill-string vibration analysis
- 5.2. Drill-string waves
- 5.3. Attenuation of extensional waves
- 5.4. Waves in periodic and non-periodic drill strings
- 5.5. Drill-bit mud waves
- 5.6. Coupled pipe–mud-formation guided waves
- 5.7. Summary of drill-string waves
- 5.8. Surface/rigsite noise wavefields
- 5.9. Drill-string noise and borehole interactions
- 5.10. Drill-string transmission line
- 5.11. Bit/rock reflection coefficient
- 5.12. Dual fields in the drill string
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6: SWD acquisition: tools and systems
- Abstract
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Signal recognition and acquisition layout
- 6.3. Pilot sensors and transducers
- 6.4. Surface pilot sensors (rig pilots)
- 6.5. Use of downhole pilot sensors
- 6.6. Use of dual sensors in drill strings
- 6.7. Other pilot sensors at the rig
- 6.8. SWD data-acquisition system
- 6.9. SWD-data acquisition and drilling control
- 6.10. Drilling depth and seismic depth
- 6.11. Spatial sampling of SWD signals
- 6.12. SWD-source pattern with bit deepening
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7: SWD acquisition: operational aspects
- Abstract
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Onshore acquisition
- 7.3. Receiver arrays in SWD
- 7.4. Acquisition of shear and converted waves
- 7.5. Survey preparation procedures
- 7.6. Survey operations
- 7.7. Summary of quality-control procedures
- 7.8. Onshore 3D-SWD acquisition
- 7.9. Offshore acquisition
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8: Preprocessing of SWD data
- Abstract
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Preprocessing
- 8.3. SWD data in the cross-correlated domain
- 8.4. Stack of while-drilling data
- 8.5. Deconvolution of the drill-bit source function
- 8.6. Pilot deconvolution
- 8.7. Discussion about pilot deconvolution
- 8.8. Beam-steering deconvolution
- 8.9. Deconvolution in rotation-angle domain
- 8.10. Modeling of drill-string response
- 8.11. Fitting with real data
- 8.12. Drill-string waves in the correlated and deconvolved data
- 8.13. Interpretation of drill-string multiples
- 8.14. Rig ghost
- 8.15. Processing of dual drill-string wavefields
- 8.16. Pilot-delay correction
- 8.17. Signal rephasing
- 8.18. SWD results by downhole pilot signals
- 8.19. Drill-bit SWD signature by ground force
- 8.20. Example of preprocessing parameters
- Bibliography
- Chapter 9: Processing of signal and noise RVSP fields
- Abstract
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Entropy and repeatability of the drill-bit source
- 9.3. Common-level stack of correlations with noise
- 9.4. Selective stack by drilling parameters
- 9.5. Noise cancellation by orthogonal pilot traces
- 9.6. Noise separation by independent pilot traces
- 9.7. Coherency by multiple-signal classification
- 9.8. Analysis of torsional pilot waves
- 9.9. SWD with downhole-motor drilling
- 9.10. RVSP processing of SWD-VSP seismograms
- 9.11. Analysis of impulsive drill-bit signals
- 9.12. Other SWD methods based on correlation
- 9.13. SWD and Seismic Interferometry (SI)
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10: Drill-bit SWD applications
- Abstract
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. SWD products
- 10.3. Drilling and real-time migration
- 10.4. Deviated-well monitoring
- 10.5. Geological and lithological aspects
- 10.6. Comparison of SWD and wireline VSP results
- 10.7. Prediction by SWD in favorable conditions
- 10.8. SWD in a geologically complex and poor-seismic-response area
- 10.9. Crosshole SWD seismic survey
- 10.10. 3D-RVSP application
- 10.11. While-drilling application of 3D-RVSP imaging
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11: Other while-drilling applications
- Abstract
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Normal VSP SWD
- 11.3. Drill-bit SWD for geothermal applications
- 11.4. Tunnel seismic while drilling (TSWD)
- Bibliography
- Chapter 12: New trends for SWD
- Abstract
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. SWD in deep water
- 12.3. SWD by large receiver arrays
- 12.4. Fiber optic: DAS for SWD
- 12.5. Geopressure prediction and assessment
- 12.6. The road ahead: SWD by downhole technology
- 12.7. Drilling diagnostics and geosteering
- 12.8. Real-time well placement
- 12.9. Geosteering approaches
- 12.10. Key components of well placement
- 12.11. Towards acoustic geosteering
- Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 13, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 674
- No. of pages (eBook): 674
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128231456
- eBook ISBN: 9780128231463
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F.B Poletto
Flavio Poletto worked from 1984 to 2019 at the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS (former Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale), Italy. In 1988 he received the degree “Dottore in Fisica” from the University of Trieste. Since 1988, he has worked as a geophysicist on seismic-while-drilling (SWD) research by using the drilling noise to obtain reverse VSPs. He is the author of many papers and a monography on SWD, drill-string acoustics, co-author of patents regarding the drill-bit-noise separation for RVSP and Tunnel SWD. He received Honorable Mentions for papers selected in the category of the Best Paper in GEOPHYSICS (2001 and 2003), ASCE Best paper (MOONBIT) (2010), and “Legends-of-SWD” (2016) awards. His research activity includes borehole geophysics, acoustic and SWD, with applications extended to drilling diagnostics, geosteering, seismic interferometry, DAS, CCS, and Geothermal.
Affiliations and expertise
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Sgonico (Trieste), ItalyFM
F. Miranda
Francesco Miranda received a BSc degree in Geology in 1984 and a PhD degree in Geophysics 1989 from UC Swansea (UK) with a thesis on Travel-time and Amplitude Tomography. He worked at DMT (Bochum, Germany) where he was active in research in seismic tomography, borehole seismic data acquisition and processing, processing of in seam seismic for coal fields, and special processing and acquisition techniques for surface 2D seismic. Since 1990 he has worked in the exploration and production Division at Eni in Milan, in the borehole seismic department. He has been actively involved in research in the field of Seismic While Drilling on which he is the author of many papers and in the field of cross-hole seismic and geosteering
Affiliations and expertise
ENI, S. Donato Milanese (MI), ItalyRead Seismic While Drilling on ScienceDirect