... for wireline operations. Formation pressures can exceed 30,000 psi, and differential pressures over 5,000 psi also exceed the capabilities of traditional rotary coring tools. New technology has been introduced to enhance the recovery of rotary sidewall cores to improve operations and capabilities...

... operational elements used today as separate entities in wireline operations. Their integration, however, generates important efficiency gains, reduces risk in pressure measurements and fluid sampling and sidewall coring operations, improves accuracy, and enables the implementation of unprecedented distributed...

..., and the basis of thoroughly understanding reservoir rock potential (petrophysics) is founded on these core measurements. With the drive for cost efficiency, conventional full-core acquisition is often curtailed and subsurface teams must rely on percussion or rotary sidewall core samples. This choice is made...

... ABSTRACT: Wireline sidewall cores have a well-established role in the formation evaluation program in providing key rock properties. While they provide a subset of the exhaustive information obtainable from continuous core, for reasons of operational efficiency they are often deemed...