Selective saturation pulse for downhole measurements
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsChang S. Shin, Mark Cheiron Butler
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Abstract
Various embodiments include a method for configuring and generating a non-adiabatic saturation pulse for use in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging. One such method configures the pulse by adjusting one or more of pulse amplitude modulation or phase cycling. The modified pulse is transmitted into a fluid such that a substantially uniform nuclear spin saturation or nuclear spin inversion echo response is received from the fluid. A wait time between the pulse transmission and the echo response that indicates that spin equilibrium has been achieved is substantially equal to a T1 time. The wait time is an indication of the characteristics of the fluid.
Claims17
A method for shaping a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) pulse, the method comprising:
- adjusting at least one of an amplitude modulation or a phase modulation of a non-adiabatic pulse to produce a modified non-adiabatic pulse;
- transmitting the modified non-adiabatic pulse into an object;
- determining when the non-adiabatic pulse is configured to produce a substantially uniform saturation or inversion of magnetization from the object based on an echo response from the object responsive to the modified non-adiabatic pulse, wherein determining when the non-adiabatic pulse is configured to produce a substantially uniform saturation or inversion response comprises determining a calculated response from Bloch's equations based on the echo response responsive to transmitting the modified non-adiabatic pulse into the object;
- transmitting, after a time period, a readout pulse sequence based on the non-adiabatic pulse;
- receiving the echo response from the fluid;
- determining from Bloch's equations if the echo response indicates nuclear spins have recovered to equilibrium;
- incrementing the time period and repeating the transmitting of the readout pulse sequence and receiving the echo response until Bloch's equations indicate that the nuclear spins have recovered to equilibrium at a final wait time;
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- determining characteristics of the fluid based on the final wait time.
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) device, comprising
- an NMR device to transmit and receive NMR signals;
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- control circuitry coupled to the NMR device where the control circuitry is configured to:
- generate one or more non-adiabatic saturation pulses based on adjusted amplitude modulation or phase cycling wherein the one or more generated non-adiabatic saturation pulses produce a substantially uniform nuclear spin saturation or nuclear spin inversion response from a fluid;
- adjust at least one of an amplitude modulation or a phase modulation of a non-adiabatic pulse to produce a modified non-adiabatic pulse;
- transmit the modified non-adiabatic pulse into an object;
- determine when the non-adiabatic pulse is configured to produce a substantially uniform saturation or inversion of magnetization from the object based on an echo response from the object responsive to the modified non-adiabatic pulse;
- determine when the non-adiabatic pulse is configured to produce a substantially uniform saturation or inversion response by determining a calculated response from Bloch's equations based on the echo response responsive to transmitting the modified non-adiabatic pulse into the object;
- transmit, after a time period, a readout pulse sequence based on the non-adiabatic pulse;
- receive the echo response from the fluid;
- determine from Bloch's equations if the echo response indicates nuclear spins have recovered to equilibrium;
- increment the time period and repeat the transmitting of the readout pulse sequence and receiving the echo response until Bloch's equations indicate that the nuclear spins have recovered to equilibrium at a final wait time;
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- determine characteristics of the fluid based on the final wait time.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for executing downhole measurements that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- adjust at least one of an amplitude modulation or a phase modulation of a non-adiabatic pulse to produce a modified non-adiabatic pulse;
- generate the modified non-adiabatic pulse to transmit the modified non-adiabatic pulse into a geological formation reservoir;
- determine when the non-adiabatic pulse is configured to produce a substantially uniform saturation or inversion of magnetization echo response from the geological formation reservoir;
- select a non-adiabatic pulse and readout sequence from a plurality of non-adiabatic pulses and read out sequences;
- determine results for Bloch's equations for the selected non-adiabatic pulse and readout sequence;
- determine a first proportionality between a peak amplitude of the selected readout sequence and a peak amplitude of the selected non-adiabatic pulse;
- generate activations for T1 and T2 measurements based on the results of the Bloch's equations;
- determine an RF amplitude for a readout pulse of the readout sequence;
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- multiply the first proportionality by a second proportionality determined theoretically to generate a resultant RF amplitude for the non-adiabatic pulse.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.