The development of a wired composite tubing enables the continuous acquisition and transmission of petrophysical and drilling dynamics data during all phases of a drilling operation. This capability results in logging passes for each bit trip throughout the life of the well. The operator can then correlate and compare the data in real-time to better understand the borehole stability. This paper presents two case studies that illustrate the value of real-time time-lapse logging to a drilling operation.

Keywords:
fracture, dalton, borehole stability, log analysis, fracture zone, image log, halliburton energy service, invasion, stability, resistivity
Subjects:
Drilling Operations, Formation Evaluation & Management, Open hole/cased hole log analysis
Copyright 2002, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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