00:01 | Oh, great. Hi Stephanie. ? How was lunch? It was |
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00:13 | . I had million chicken nuggets because what my daughter was eating. So |
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00:20 | , so she's able to eat kind standard food now. Yeah, she |
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00:27 | uh she eats everything. We she does have a peanut allergy so we |
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00:32 | eat like peanut butter and stuff like . But she eats everything. |
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00:37 | good. See that that peanut allergies of uh interesting. So you kind |
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00:45 | tested her and she just didn't react well to it. Well, it |
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00:50 | funny because when she was a um because you can't give peanut butter |
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00:56 | they're like, or start trying until six months and she was a |
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00:59 | I used to eat peanuts and blow on her to see if she |
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01:03 | react to like, the smell and ever happened. But when we tried |
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01:08 | butter for the first time, her face everything she swelled up. So |
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01:15 | her eyes like swelled shut. She a rash all over her body. |
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01:18 | it's a pretty intense allergy. So have and all of that. |
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01:24 | That's amazing. I don't know where peanut allergy came from. I um |
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01:30 | just wonder if it's kind of gotten the system or whether did people have |
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01:33 | always, I don't know because everybody me, like, make sure you |
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01:38 | , don't like refrain from eating things you're pregnant because they're like more likely |
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01:42 | develop an allergy to certain things and of my favorite snacks. I used |
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01:47 | love bananas with peanut butter on Yeah, she is extremely allergic to |
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01:53 | and peanut butter. So yeah, don't have nobody else is allergic to |
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01:58 | like in my entire family as far we can, kind of think that |
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02:01 | has a peanut allergy. So I no idea where this came from. |
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02:05 | , you know what, she might to that too. I hope |
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02:08 | We have to go to her doctor year and they test, we do |
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02:11 | we have an allergist. So every they test her with the peanut whatever |
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02:18 | to see if it's getting worse or . So uh hopefully it'll get |
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02:23 | So I hope so. Yeah. , definitely. Oh good. Well |
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02:28 | know you've been chatting a little bit employment and stuff like that. So |
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02:36 | I was just remembering some work that did a while back that was |
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02:41 | I don't can you, can you that? Yeah. So I plotted |
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02:46 | all kinds of things, there was couple of years ago and just how |
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02:51 | and everything relates to resource prices and good news is there when there's more |
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02:57 | in the system, there's typically more available. So and then uh you |
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03:06 | , I also plotted up how old are and when you graduated and so |
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03:14 | know, as you can kind of the people who are born in uh |
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03:22 | graduating in the, in the 70s 80's are now 65 or so. |
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03:32 | you can see this is kind of demographic, so Younger people who have |
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03:39 | and say 2020 are down here and the resource prices there. So you |
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03:47 | see that really People have followed where jobs are naturally, and then the |
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03:56 | were in those places. So if were 65, there were a lot |
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04:01 | jobs way back then, and that's the people are there and you can |
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04:05 | of see how it, how it . Likewise, we're going through |
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04:12 | finishing off this null, whether the prices were pretty low and jobs were |
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04:17 | available and most people were not And now that's changing. So, |
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04:25 | I would say there's a nice uh nice opportunity in here for people who |
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04:30 | around 30 years old and younger. was just looking also at petroleum |
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04:40 | You know, there's been such huge in unemployment. And this is the |
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04:45 | of students, probably a guy at tech profit there, but there was |
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04:53 | some recent trends just from published in journal Petroleum Technology, that look like |
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04:59 | is the number of students, this petroleum engineering, but you can see |
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05:04 | so few students. Mhm. And resource prices are high. So that's |
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05:11 | going to be good for students who still there anyway. Just a couple |
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05:17 | other numbers. So I think, think it's actually an opportune time to |
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05:20 | in geophysics that will play out in next couple of years. Yeah, |
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05:28 | , but so a couple other things are just related to our Warhol |
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05:36 | you know, it's amazing that we're following Elon musk whether we like it |
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05:40 | not and but one of adventures as would probably know is the boring company |
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05:47 | the boring company is right in line what we're talking about borehole geophysics and |
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05:53 | idea was to, to build tunnels I think he's obviously onto something um |
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06:01 | is not new, we've been building for a long time, but when |
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06:06 | look at it, most of our and getting around cities obviously they're pretty |
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06:10 | . So you can either start as said, to get off the |
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06:15 | you've either got to go above or , that's pretty obvious. So his |
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06:22 | is one of the theories is let's go below. And so the idea |
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06:25 | to be boring tunnels underneath all the . Now, if you live in |
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06:28 | york city or something, it's already or some of the big cities like |
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06:34 | , but a lot of our other don't have that much underground infrastructure. |
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06:41 | um it's pretty interesting my feeling is there's not so much for cars |
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06:48 | but for goods, so you can smaller diameter tunnels that are all over |
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06:54 | place. So you could deliver goods and forth because I think there's going |
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06:59 | be limited opportunity to have drones, know, people are talking about amazon |
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07:03 | and delivery and everything, but I think that there are a lot of |
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07:08 | involved with drones flying around all over city with weather and everything else. |
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07:12 | I'm not so sure that drones are to be the way to go, |
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07:16 | underground transport for smaller diameter, like ft diameter tunnels, I could see |
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07:23 | definitely happening. So here's a, thinking is that you could have all |
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07:28 | of tunnels that would take goods and from one point in the city to |
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07:32 | other, really fast through small diameter . So again, in this regard |
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07:39 | , we're gonna need to know a of borehole geophysics and assess the |
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07:44 | assess drilling. And so I think may see a lot of this, |
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07:50 | application of, of moral stuff. you can imagine with amazon deliveries, |
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08:06 | you had delivery stations, say every of miles you just put the from |
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08:10 | warehouse, say west of the city Katie, you can see some enormous |
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08:14 | out there, suppose you just do a product in a shoot goes down |
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08:20 | like the tubes in the old battleships department stores. The good would be |
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08:26 | across the city in a couple of , come up at another station that |
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08:31 | be local and you could deliver that fast. So, um, I |
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08:35 | there might be a good place for diameter tunnels and lots of work for |
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08:41 | to do because we know about The other thing I mentioned a couple |
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08:47 | just to have a quick look. there'll be underground transportation. We already |
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08:56 | do that with pipelines and everything but also more and more underground |
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09:03 | So for example, we hear we some about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and |
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09:11 | are several big sites that are around and you can see those, those |
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09:23 | are all in caverns. And so there were huge amounts of oil starting |
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09:31 | caverns and one's not too far from . Uh huh couple of them were |
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09:36 | texas once in Louisiana, But they massive amounts over upwards of actually 700 |
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09:44 | I think 800 million barrels of Now this is getting drawn down a |
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09:50 | , I think with the current administration down and selling oil into the market |
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09:57 | it gets too expensive. So I there was just another 20 or 30 |
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10:01 | barrels that were going to be sold the next week or two. But |
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10:06 | is, this is what it's all . And so with us too, |
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10:10 | knowing where to put these storage caverns and how to put them in, |
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10:15 | just a lot of additional possibility for storage because this real estate gets more |
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10:21 | more expensive. You can see the ground facilities just take a lot of |
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10:29 | , but these underground caverns are they can be 1000 ft tall. |
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10:34 | if, if you look at some of those towers are probably, |
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10:42 | don't know, maybe 500 600 800 high. So when you look at |
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10:45 | , one of the downtown towers, about as big as a cavern caverns |
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10:49 | be even better, but that's around size, so huge volumes that can |
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10:53 | stored underground. Um it can be , certainly a lot cheaper than building |
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10:58 | these facilities and then you don't need stop cluttering up the landscape, you |
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11:02 | put it underground. So, lots possibilities with underground storage. Now, |
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11:08 | other thing is that we, as talked about, there's a move to |
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11:12 | a big hydrogen economy and especially around , there's already a fair amount of |
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11:22 | that's being made. And in your world, The way hydra generates two |
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11:28 | made is typically from methane. So take, it's called reforming the |
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11:34 | So you take methane and basically heat up with water. So you uh |
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11:41 | up methane with water and then the Combines with the water and produces H |
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11:51 | plus carbon dioxide. So, and is manufactured around here. So, |
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12:00 | that's the idea and then there are storage and pipeline facilities here. So |
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12:06 | pure hydrogen H two is being used it's used for a lot of things |
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12:12 | hydrogenated foods and oils. You were about oil, balsamic vinegar, oil |
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12:19 | stuff that a lot of that will uh have hydrogen components. Um, |
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12:27 | part of rubber, hydrogen was used balkanize the rubber and do all kinds |
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12:32 | things. So hydrogen has been used lot. It hasn't been used for |
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12:36 | that much. It's been used for manufacturing except for rockets. So if |
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12:45 | look at all the launches some of big rockets, they use liquid |
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12:51 | Um, and once you've got liquid , you can combine it with oxygen |
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12:57 | basically burn it and it's enormously So we just talked about creating hydrogen |
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13:06 | a lot of energy to create the because you've got to heat the water |
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13:09 | to 1000 or 1100° or something. then that extremely hot steam is combined |
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13:15 | methane and it strips the hydrogen off methane to become pure hydrogen and then |
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13:21 | oxygenates the carbon to become Ceo So the reaction is pretty simple to |
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13:26 | hydrogen. Then you just put it reverse. You take the liquid |
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13:34 | say in a rocket, liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen and just combine them and |
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13:39 | explodes and produces a lot of thrust water. So the opposite of |
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13:48 | another way to think about it is just take water, you, you |
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13:53 | a big current through an electrical current that electrical currents enough to separate the |
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14:00 | and the oxygen. So electrolysis, might have done that in high |
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14:04 | Um, you just take water, a big current through it. And |
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14:08 | enough, you can get hydrogen and that requires energy. On the other |
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14:13 | , you take the hydrogen and the and you put them together and they |
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14:18 | up, they recombine to become They really want to do that |
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14:24 | And so you burn hydrogen with oxygen pirate, burn it and it just |
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14:32 | water. So as you might the big thinking is that if you |
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14:38 | generate hydrogen in some kind of clean green way, like with wind |
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14:46 | solar panels or nuclear power. So you've got a big electricity source, |
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14:50 | you could just electoral eyes water and hydrogen. And the hydrogen now is |
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14:57 | as an energy source. But the is to use that spare renewable energy |
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15:06 | create hydrogen ship and store the And then you've got it as a |
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15:11 | good energy source. So that's the with this hydrogen economy. The issue |
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15:18 | course, is that hydrogen is just any other fuel. You have to |
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15:24 | it somehow. And that's the whole with this renewable world. And most |
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15:30 | the renewables, the electricity, you directly store electricity except in batteries and |
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15:40 | are heavy and expensive. And so can do it to a degree. |
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15:48 | a really industrial base of battery storage enormous and really expensive. So with |
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15:58 | excess renewable energy, you'd like to it in a form where it's readily |
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16:04 | and you can store a lot of . And that's hydrogen. So that's |
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16:10 | the key thinking there. And the around here we're proposing that we start |
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16:16 | salt caverns. So that's some of idea. Likewise with other gasses looking |
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16:25 | the subsurface the for hydrogen production wells well as any production. The idea |
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16:33 | that if we're producing excess C. , you you want to take care |
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16:40 | that C. 02. And so idea is can we capture the |
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16:44 | 02 from big emitters and then sequestering is kind of like me thinking just |
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16:53 | be hygienic. I think we talked it. You know when a corn |
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16:58 | , rice farmer produces crops, we them. We produce affluent as you'll |
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17:03 | regularly from your little daughter and all us. And don't shoot the rice |
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17:09 | , we just take care of We just have hygienic facilities, |
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17:14 | So likewise with CO two, if that bad, which I don't really |
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17:18 | . But assuming that we do need take care of it um just do |
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17:22 | hygienically in sanitation and reinject it or what we need to do. So |
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17:28 | the idea that we would evaluate the capture the Ceo to either direct air |
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17:35 | or from a flue stream in a plant or something like that and then |
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17:41 | use it the C. C. . S. Carbon capture utilization |
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17:45 | Use it to provide admissible oil floods sequester it put it in deep in |
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17:52 | earth. So again we need this lot of the subsurface measurements to be |
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17:58 | to do that. As I mentioned CC US utilization we can use |
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18:05 | 02 as an inject into to lower viscosity of oil. So uh what |
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18:15 | have done, you can see a diagram here we take C. 02 |
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18:20 | it into an oil reservoir and then mixes miserable meaning mixing it missed it |
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18:29 | with the oil dissolves in the oil then it lowers the viscosity of the |
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18:35 | . And then we can produce more . And you capture the c. |
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18:38 | . 2 with the oil production and re injected. So you've got A |
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18:46 | disposal of c. 0. 2 then you're also producing more oil |
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18:52 | 0. 2 just to sequester it a cost. So that's why it's |
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18:56 | little less exciting. You know oil find oil and we uh we can |
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19:07 | money from its economic, It produces lot more money and energy than that |
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19:12 | to find it. So the really oil places uh the amount of energy |
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19:18 | to find and produce oil is about of the amount of energy that's released |
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19:23 | we use that found oil. So with co. two. If we |
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19:33 | actually make some money from co. rather than just having to spend money |
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19:37 | sequester it. That's better. So one of, excuse me, one |
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19:43 | the ways that people can try to money or to utilize the C. |
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19:47 | . U. S. In um . c. 0. 2. |
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19:52 | likewise we can just these are just bunch of details and here was the |
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19:58 | that we presented just a little bit also with wells. So this was |
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20:03 | South Houston. We were approached a of years ago by by a company |
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20:07 | had bought this little piece of land in the south of the city actually |
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20:13 | too far from here near Pierce So they bought this piece of land |
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20:21 | 15 acres but it was a legacy . So as we talked about you |
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20:35 | what's the first part of drilling and building a well I mean you have |
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20:46 | map out see what you're doing but when we actually start to build the |
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20:52 | itself what were the elements of the construction? Oh the the like you're |
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21:04 | about like the casing and everything. . So what's the what's the what's |
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21:11 | top casing? What are they usually of still? Yeah So you've got |
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21:18 | case where some of these wells are years old. They weren't even mapped |
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21:28 | these guys were trying to rehabilitate this and then actually build an industrial facility |
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21:37 | it but there are all these wells and all these Legacy wells and there's |
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21:45 | years of agriculture and over growing and kinds of stuff here. So they |
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21:50 | know where any of the wells So what would you do to solve |
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21:54 | problem? There are all these wells are buried here someplace and you want |
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22:00 | build a facility but you don't know any of these wells were. Hm |
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22:09 | you just I mean, I'm sure some type of survey that you could |
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22:16 | that would show you like where there's consider like not necessarily holds because inconsistencies |
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22:24 | the land. Right, okay. that that's one idea. You could |
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22:31 | some type of topographic detailed topographic survey try to find any anything that would |
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22:37 | to previous? Well, but this has been bulldozed and roads built and |
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22:47 | kinds of crap done on top of . So in fact right now it's |
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22:52 | pretty flat. So there's there's a bayou running through it and there was |
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23:02 | bit of marshy stuff and some casual on it and stuff. But it's |
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23:07 | it's fairly flat. So we'll do we can with topography. But what |
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23:13 | we going to do next? Could do like magnetic survey or something? |
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23:22 | what would the magnetic survey do? would show you like I will show |
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23:30 | the steel, like what's in the bingo? Beautiful. Well that's what |
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23:40 | figured too. Mhm. So you go out there with a magnetometer and |
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23:52 | to find the steel which is which okay. It's just that this is |
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23:56 | pretty big piece of land and there's and marsh on it and stuff. |
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24:03 | it's it's pretty hard to actually do point by point magnetometer survey. So |
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24:16 | on to something. But what else we do? Because walking across this |
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24:20 | all over the place and doing a every foot is not very easy. |
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24:25 | , I know dr bird because my class was over magnetic and gravity. |
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24:29 | did the airplane. The aero Yeah, and that's the idea. |
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24:35 | so that's what we did. so this was one of the |
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24:44 | one of the first ones that we aware of. We actually took a |
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24:48 | and we hooked up the mega tom . We rented a mega thomas from |
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24:54 | G and G. And uh program survey and flew the magnetometer using a |
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25:07 | , which was very cool. So can see some pictures here. This |
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25:13 | a colleague Mike Allison from rafter aerial was his drone. And then Michael |
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25:22 | , former grad student, we rigged a magnetometer and then fluid. Uh |
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25:32 | is one of the early encounters, program the the drone to fly a |
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25:39 | survey, but it it didn't recognize there was a tree in a |
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25:44 | So so we hit the tree. But anyway, we got out side |
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25:54 | branches off the tree and stuff and the recovered the drone and reprogram the |
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26:00 | path and everything. So here was , he was the Magnetics and you've |
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26:11 | a little bit of this, that the area. So we did a |
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26:16 | closely flying line through the whole area got these the total magnetic field as |
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26:25 | from the magnetometer on the drone, that all up. And then boom |
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26:32 | at it. So here are the highs and anomalies from the steel that's |
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26:39 | the ground or whatever is there. now we've got all these anomalies and |
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26:47 | gave this the company and they went and looked at excavated all these |
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26:54 | So it uh, it actually worked pretty well. Now not everything we |
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27:01 | was a wellhead. We found as as we know, we found all |
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27:04 | wellheads, but we also found buried and all kinds of stuff. So |
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27:12 | of these were different forms of but we located as far as we |
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27:16 | , all the, all the legacy . So that's just another aspect of |
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27:22 | borehole. Sometimes those boreholes leave our . Now, I was once called |
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27:32 | to evaluate a proposal. Some guys proposed this new device there. |
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27:37 | big cagey about the black box are but they showed an example, they |
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27:45 | over an oil field and they said found 100% of the oil in this |
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27:54 | . That was pretty good. And I, we looked at it a |
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28:00 | more closely and we said, well do you know there's oil there and |
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28:04 | said, well their oil wells So these are all oil wells And |
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28:10 | found 100% of them. But what really found was 100% of the steel |
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28:17 | . So guess what? You didn't the oil, You found the wells |
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28:25 | everybody else had drilled for the So, oops, no funding for |
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28:30 | one. We know how to find already. Okay, so another thing |
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28:39 | we're working on a little bit is with these rock properties and I was |
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28:43 | this toolkit and so I just was to mention this is another possible and |
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28:48 | all the rock properties and one little kit. So you could give this |
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28:52 | students anywhere and do online or or stuff. So that was the basic |
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28:58 | of hands online rock because it's So if you register in any of |
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29:04 | measurements, that's another place where we're support to continue to build this toolkit |
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29:11 | , for use in labs or online in person. Okay, so I |
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29:19 | to make sure that you had all terminology, which I think you do |
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29:26 | as you know, homogeneous homo means from so many of these words are |
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29:32 | and genius or genesis or Gino's is . So genotype or homogeneous means the |
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29:44 | type. Of course the same every that homogeneous Aisa tropic isso is equal |
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29:52 | is direction and then our way. it's a tropic means the same in |
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29:57 | way or direction. An ice tropic means not so not the same in |
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30:04 | directions and tropic. And we could these weird combinations. We could have |
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30:09 | tropic homogeneous which is easy. Every has the same properties in all directions |
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30:14 | we can have an ice. A homogeneous, every place has the same |
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30:21 | properties. And you can see all various combinations that that we can |
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30:27 | So just some just some language that want to be aware of than other |
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30:34 | all these terms that we use when talk about elastic, it just means |
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30:39 | it goes back to the same position that any strain that we impose on |
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30:47 | after releasing the stress the strain will and we'll go back to the exact |
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30:52 | position in the same state. An is not going to be elastic and |
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31:00 | can see the words for plastic and , elastic. Breakage and duct |
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31:07 | These all have terms mainly for the world which is now our conventional |
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31:15 | Most of the production is unconventional. that in the sense makes it |
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31:22 | So we use all those, all terms. Now I was gonna skip |
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31:30 | a little bit because I think in of course you probably did a lot |
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31:36 | this stuff. We've talked about bulk july and share ma july now I |
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31:40 | know whether he put it in this . Um this was kind of a |
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31:44 | good way. And some other some of the companies like to talk |
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31:52 | lambda mu ro L M. R opposed to V. P V. |
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31:57 | . And density. So in the physics world, you know, we're |
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32:06 | to V. P. And Bs density. But if we look at |
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32:11 | more basic rock physical parameters, then really density. New, the sheer |
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32:20 | sheer modulates and lambda. And so can just we showed those various equations |
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32:27 | but we could change velocities into lambda Rose and some companies and some people |
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32:39 | to talk about rock properties in M. R. Terms. So |
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32:44 | so you're aware of those did john this parameter ization at all? Or |
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32:51 | not his favorite? I think we a little bit of both. I |
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33:01 | know, I feel like that was so long ago. I don't remember |
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33:03 | I think we did a little bit both. Um It's it's not really |
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33:12 | . It's really just a different Some people argue that this is a |
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33:15 | way to classify rocks rather than P. V. S. And |
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33:20 | new row is just the rigidity times density. Lambda rho is, in |
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33:25 | sense the compressibility times the density and we plot in this way sometimes the |
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33:33 | properties separate the rock type better. when we're when we're cross plotting |
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33:43 | we've got one rock and we've got different properties of the rock. So |
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33:47 | cross plot the two different properties. hopefully something about the rock separates. |
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33:52 | wanted to separate because what I want know is say that this is a |
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33:58 | rock in orange. But I want make seismic measurements that pinpoint the clean |
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34:06 | . So in other words, if know it's got a lambda rho of |
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34:10 | and muro of six, then that a clean sense of if I make |
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34:23 | on the material and say lambda rho 20 and mu is still six, |
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34:33 | that's likely pointing toward it being a . So once again we're trying to |
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34:40 | these elastic properties that indicate what kind rock it is. And in this |
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34:46 | for these rocks, these sandstone and , this is a classic sequence. |
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34:53 | a there's a nice separation between our rocks which are clean sands and the |
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35:01 | materials again from the surface, I measure gamma rays from the from |
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35:11 | They die too fast. So logging can get them but from the |
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35:16 | I can't get them so that in gamma rays are play indicator. So |
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35:21 | the surface I can't get that. if I can do seismic and process |
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35:25 | seismic and the lamb in the row cross plot the rock properties that I |
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35:30 | identify from the surface, the rock . So that's where our logs and |
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35:36 | and everything comes back in. So learned this now. We talked about |
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35:44 | before too. That that ratio is ratio of the transverse strain to the |
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35:57 | strain. So if I, if squish the rock squish, the rock |
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36:04 | gets fatter or the axle to the strain. Uh most, most |
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36:14 | if I squish it this way, expands this way. Almost all |
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36:20 | There are a couple of exceptions. some weird materials when I squish them |
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36:26 | way, they squish this way And you might have seen those at |
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36:33 | fairs and sometimes they're kind of a like sphere. And so when you |
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36:40 | the sphere, the whole thing Or there's some other triangular girder, |
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36:46 | things where you squish it this way it actually collapses this way. So |
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36:51 | are some weird materials or weird structures you can build that are negative plaster |
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36:57 | racial materials. But no, no work that way. And so this |
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37:11 | a good little calculation you can I don't know whether you did this |
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37:15 | in reservoir GFS is whether you did calculation, but we can calculate the |
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37:21 | ratio of water. Water is largely compressible. So we just assume that |
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37:30 | squeeze the cylinder of water, it's compressible. So if you change the |
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37:38 | or the height length, then it's to increase the radius. So assuming |
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37:44 | the volume is stays the same. can calculate the apostles ratio of |
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37:53 | And as you see here we take the one cylinder pi R, squared |
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38:00 | . And then the smaller cylinder, changed by delta R. And it's |
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38:06 | by delta H. So it's gotten in our smaller than H. And |
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38:11 | equate those two together. And you out that radio strain over the actual |
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38:16 | is one. So the plastic ratio water is .5 and that is for |
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38:24 | fluid. And so anytime we get racial rocks that are increasing, we |
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38:32 | that the rock is looking more and like a fluid or more clay lake |
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38:36 | plastic like or flow. So a stand stone which is very rigid and |
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38:48 | non fluid like classic stansel. We'll apostles ratio of something like a quarter |
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38:56 | . That's very little and then something very, very claylike or or malleable |
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39:03 | like will be apostles ratio behalf. between a quarter and a half, |
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39:07 | sort of the range of rocks. the other thing is you might hear |
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39:14 | called poisons. So that's more of texas pronunciation the french, that's, |
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39:21 | pronounced it slightly differently but we are texas but it's probably better to call |
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39:27 | plus song. Okay, we talked little bit about this before that there |
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39:33 | different types of estimators and averages that used here is just to remind you |
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39:37 | exactly what you mean by avoid or Royce, an arithmetic versus a harmonic |
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39:44 | . It's pretty simple. It's just rice or the harmonic is just one |
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39:49 | the value is the sum of the one over all the values. And |
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39:53 | to get back we just take the . So simple density, the in |
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40:04 | sense, the density of the rock the density of the avoid in its |
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40:10 | plus the matrix. And we take weighted value. So that's uh an |
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40:18 | mean and this is really avoid average the fluid and the solid. So |
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40:26 | straightforward. The wily velocity is really arithmetic slowness or a harmonic velocity. |
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40:38 | you say that one over the velocity the weighting of the velocity of the |
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40:43 | and the waiting the velocity, the , that's one over velocity. So |
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40:46 | get the actual velocity. We have do the reciprocal after this little |
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40:55 | So those are just different ways that can try to get estimators. And |
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41:06 | as you probably did in rock physics back, we imagine that the once |
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41:12 | that we've got the skeleton or the of the rock plus the the pores |
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41:18 | the fluids, filling them, put together and depending on how you look |
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41:22 | the rock, this is sort of we're going to get the values to |
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41:29 | into gasping and gasping is the next . So we've got to get the |
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41:32 | rock and matrix and then everything to with the fluid and then add those |
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41:37 | and that gives the the value for saturated rock. Okay, so that's |
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41:51 | a quick reminder about some of some of the rock physics. I'm |
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42:02 | , we're gonna continue on with long so now we're gonna start to look |
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42:24 | some well logs and go through But before we get there we happened |
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42:31 | be in in Colombia and uh down some of the mines. But you |
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42:40 | remember there was that Chilean mining disaster where the miners got trapped inside the |
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42:49 | the mine. So we just look the resources what people are mining for |
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42:56 | this is was in chile. But course there's all kinds of metals that |
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43:02 | mine in in throughout south America but chilly. You know, copper, |
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43:10 | , silver, all kinds of That's mind and chili. So that |
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43:17 | part of it. And the the occurred in one of their minds that |
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43:20 | in poll and you can see that was this copper gold mine and they |
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43:34 | mine was quite deep and there were shafts and roadways to get down into |
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43:42 | mine and you can see that it 700 m below the surface. So |
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43:49 | 2400 ft so pretty deep And there a collapse and there were the 33 |
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43:59 | who were trapped inside there and you see that they were trapped for over |
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44:03 | months inside. I don't know whether seen the movie, did you happen |
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44:08 | see there was a movie made about ? I haven't seen the movie but |
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44:12 | remember seeing like the trailer or but haven't watched it completely. It's worth |
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44:19 | put on the list. It's it's an interesting movie. It's pretty |
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44:23 | So I'd recommend it. You know think it's called there's there's an english |
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44:34 | . So how does it with respect well unplugging and our wells what they |
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44:40 | was they drilled a hole into the . You might remember this, they |
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44:46 | drilled down to it and they this quite a logging tool so they drill |
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44:55 | to it uh some seven or 800 and built this rescue tool. So |
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45:07 | they got this rescue tool and a diameter hole drilled it, lowered this |
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45:13 | down and then one person could get the tool and then they hauled that |
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45:20 | to the surface. So that's that's pretty interesting, pretty scary. But |
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45:28 | so where it comes in in the once the hole is drilled of course |
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45:32 | want to make sure that the hole in good shape. And so we're |
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45:36 | to lower a camera down into the that has a visual capability. It's |
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45:46 | good thing that this was up in mountains and there wasn't fluid that would |
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45:50 | really tricky. So the wells drilled then you're gonna lower a video camera |
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45:56 | has round lights on it. And rotating camera so you can see everything |
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46:02 | a downward look as you can see or a rotating look. So a |
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46:07 | logging tool and then the guys were put into this rescue chamber and brought |
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46:20 | . Now it turns out the that in chile but the movie was actually |
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46:27 | in the salt mine in Colombia. the sat for the movie was in |
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46:33 | and we were down in the salt , we went to the salt mine |
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46:36 | it was filmed and you can see there was the chambers were built in |
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46:43 | Colombian salt mine and this is where the filming was done. So that |
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46:46 | kind of fun and they had the set still there. And so you |
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46:50 | hang out and see where the movie filmed. But part and drilling important |
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46:57 | of the drilled well and then a tool that was used to get everybody |
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47:02 | of it and you can go down to the site if you happen to |
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47:05 | in Columbia for some reason uh you go down to the site, this |
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47:11 | us just looking around the site. So when we um when we think |
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47:25 | logging um where does where does this fit? And here's just a schematic |
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47:31 | again from matt hall um where he shown a lot of the measurements that |
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47:37 | do in geophysics and geology and what cover and what this means is when |
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47:43 | make this measurement, what kind of do they have? And the formal |
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47:50 | of resolution is that if I've got layer, I can see the top |
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47:55 | it with my measurement and the And there was two um aspects of |
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48:02 | measurement I'm making are separated so that can pick a top and I can |
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48:07 | a bottom. So that's what resolution . Resolution means that My area or |
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48:16 | of resolution is identified by two distinct . I can pick a top, |
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48:23 | can pick a bottom, I can sides. So there's something that defines |
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48:30 | area inside the area, it's kind uniform. I can't see anything really |
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48:35 | . There's no boundary but resolution is I can pick a distinct to indicators |
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48:43 | top and a bottom. So that's resolution means. And uh you |
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48:49 | when seismic, a seismic wiggle, got two bumps. That's kind of |
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48:53 | resolution of seismic is two bumps that separate, able I can pick one |
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48:58 | of the bump and I can pick distinctive other bump or part of the |
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49:03 | and vertical resolution. Seismic is somewhere a few meters at best. You |
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49:13 | were talking about gravity and Magnetics. resolution is typically very broad for |
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49:19 | Magnetics and in fact it's typically not . So resolution itself is a bit |
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49:27 | . Now that's with our well logs typically go down to a few |
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49:32 | So with the well log your excursions are on the order of a few |
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49:37 | or 6" or something like that. , the other question is how far |
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49:44 | do they cover? In fact, how far can I see? What's |
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49:51 | in a sense, the depth of or the distance of propagation? And |
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49:56 | seismic of course we can see almost logs. Typically we only see around |
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50:05 | meter or so. Of course the geologic stuff. The thin sections are |
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50:13 | high resolution, very low spatial coverage then gravity meg you're really penetrating and |
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50:21 | maybe hundreds or thousands of meters of . Okay, so then we get |
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50:38 | well, logs and you've seen some these before. But if you want |
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50:42 | get more into logging, there are lot of really good texts. The |
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50:46 | text that we used before is of uh Krakowski and ask with. But |
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50:53 | there are other more specialized ones that more and more complicated geologic interpretation of |
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50:58 | logs is intermediate advanced And then well for a scientist is pretty advanced. |
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51:06 | some other more specific things just for logging for water wells as as well |
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51:10 | well wells, but let's let's take little 10 minute break again, Stephanie |
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51:18 | you type well, but 1 53 now. So just come back shortly |
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51:23 | the hour, shortly after two. then we'll continue on with well |
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51:27 | Okay, okay. See you in little bit. Let's go. |
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51:44 | so we've shown this before that this how we were thinking about the rocks |
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51:49 | terms of the matrix, the some clay mixed in and then various |
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51:55 | of water. And so now we're to to continue to refine how we |
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52:02 | with that. But before, before continue on with rocks, we should |
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52:10 | a little bit about soils, we're drilling through the soil so we can |
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52:17 | a little bit about soils too. if we if we look at the |
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52:22 | , there's often sand and then of smaller particles clay and then silks |
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52:30 | So we've got all this material with organics mixed in. But this is |
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52:35 | the definition of how we classify, were familiar with rocks, but soils |
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52:39 | this other whole world that we're going drill through and log. And you |
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52:47 | see here just a couple of examples , of the soil, there's often |
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52:54 | high porosity because some of these, is not consolidated material. So we're |
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52:59 | out of suspension. So it can say 50% porosity in that porosity |
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53:05 | there could be air as well as , probably fresh water or some kind |
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53:11 | water and with organic matter and then other minerals. So that's our view |
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53:17 | the soils again unconsolidated, big often saturated parsley with air and parsley |
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53:24 | with water. And then if we're to define what the soil is would |
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53:31 | on the particle size and often the and we're going from silt to loans |
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53:37 | sands, two plays. And just you don't remember those turn ary diagrams |
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53:46 | this is how we interpret. So if we're going back and trying to |
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53:50 | , well I've got say um 50% and 30% clay, what kind of |
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54:02 | is that? And uh you I'm gonna turn this off somehow. |
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54:11 | . Just heard me say something like must have sounded like google. So |
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54:14 | turned on, it turned on one my home systems. Be right |
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55:05 | That's funny. But always a little when you say something that sounds like |
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55:10 | E Y G 00 G L E Hey I'm here. Excuse me. |
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55:20 | we're looking at soils and uh just how to do uh territory diagrams. |
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55:28 | we took this one example. So got three properties. So we imagine |
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55:32 | any material, soil or rock is up of three components. And if |
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55:37 | give you two of the components in plot, how do we, how |
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55:42 | we understand and decipher these plots? you can see take this example, |
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55:47 | 60% of a 20% of the then of, see the way the plots |
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55:53 | , is that we take a And that component is, we just dropped |
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55:59 | from that and here's the A But we imagine that any line perpendicular |
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56:07 | A. That's the percentage. So it's an a component say a sand |
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56:14 | here and I've got shale and dolomite example, and say it's a it's |
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56:19 | sand that I dropped down. There's 60% sand, which is all |
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56:25 | Now, if it's where do I if it's 20% b. Well, |
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56:31 | gonna drop down perpendicular to B. all this line is 20% B. |
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56:38 | 100% B. Here's 20% B. then what does that give me in |
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56:47 | . So I dropped down perpendicular from . And you can see that's 20% |
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56:53 | . So that's when we're presented with turn ary diagram. That's how we |
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57:01 | the turn ary diagram. So likewise here, see I had 30% |
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57:11 | so I would drop down to hear 30% clay right there and then maybe |
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57:27 | Uh 50% silt. So I'm down 30% clay here and that 50% |
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57:34 | I'm gonna drop down to here. it was that 30% clay. And |
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57:46 | 50% still. And so that gives 20% sent. So once again to |
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58:04 | these, we say what is And then you just drop straight down |
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58:09 | a that's your percentage and whatever scale plotted on and then find the component |
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58:16 | B. We will be given that drop down perpendicular and then that automatically |
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58:24 | a standard section for a seat. that's how you read turning diagrams. |
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58:33 | , well let's move on now to logging. And we're gonna spend a |
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58:39 | amount of time logging because that's um vsp those are the two main geophysical |
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58:47 | of styles that we use. So that's most of what we're gonna |
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58:51 | But a log just by definition is any record of things in some kind |
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59:00 | order slammed into the ground in south last night. You can hear and |
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59:13 | . I'm gonna have I think I'm turn my phone off. So a |
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59:25 | is this record for us? It's systematic record in depth. We could |
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59:31 | course have a log of your Which would be a systematic record in |
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59:36 | . But so we're doing this systematic in depth and there's a whole pile |
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59:43 | reasons why we record logs because that's a tale of the rock. But |
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59:49 | also use them for correlations for indicators what the rock is something we want |
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59:55 | get from it. And then ultimately we're going to develop and produce and |
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60:00 | how we're going to monitor what's changing what's going to make us a picture |
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60:05 | what's happening so we can manage the , okay? And that that goes |
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60:11 | not just hydrocarbons that goes for water goes for contaminants. If we were |
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60:17 | a cleanup site, we might want monitor the fluids for X number of |
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60:22 | to make sure that the site is as we expected. Likewise with with |
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60:29 | . Um we're gonna log and see what order is that might be |
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60:34 | it might be iron ore, it be um cobalt, it might be |
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60:39 | modern critical mineral, a rare all these kind of things. So |
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60:44 | gonna log for everything. Just the correlations themselves. We can often |
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60:53 | going to have some wells drilled already then we're just going to look for |
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60:57 | character or rock type or something across wells and then create some kind of |
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61:03 | idea for what's happening in the subsurface the in the oil industry, the |
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61:10 | legacy logs that we've had our resistive , maybe S. P. And |
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61:15 | ray, Those were our classic the gamma ray as we're going to |
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61:20 | is our the first log we like look at because it's really simple and |
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61:24 | got high resolution and it tells us lot about character. But we can |
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61:30 | that just in an oil field development . But you can also look across |
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61:34 | of kilometers and say going into the of Mexico across Louisiana. You can |
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61:39 | from north Louisiana right into the gulf very, very broadly see the deposition |
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61:47 | from north into the gulf of Mexico sedimentary section across many tens of |
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61:55 | And so it's kind of cool Look at just the well logs put |
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61:59 | and correlated over say two or 300 . You can really see what's happening |
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62:06 | the gulf of Mexico as the sediments into that basin that was raining sediments |
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62:12 | the crate on the center part of US into the basin of the gulf |
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62:17 | Mexico and just leaving all those, beautiful deposition. So once again, |
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62:30 | we want from the logs, this sort of what we want from a |
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62:33 | log. So here's just an example two wells. These are processed |
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62:41 | So after we've made all the we're going to infer the rock |
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62:48 | And you can see here there's a type in the legend with courts, |
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62:53 | of our basic minerals and then going depth in the long, we've got |
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63:00 | percentage of each of those minerals and we've got the porosity and then we've |
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63:05 | what's in the ferocity. So ultimately is the, the kind of final |
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63:11 | we want from all the well the well logs themselves are not going |
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63:15 | give this directly. We have to the big inverse problem to get this |
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63:20 | of the logs. But here's where going, I want a record of |
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63:25 | in depth ferocity in depth and then fill. So that's everything the most |
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63:35 | what we're gonna get to need. that's what we're moving to work |
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63:41 | just in practical terms uh on the side you have, you haven't been |
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63:45 | to a well yet, have you ? No, I haven't. |
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63:52 | well that's something to look forward You'll get out there one of these |
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63:58 | . But on the well itself we about the drilling floor. This in |
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64:06 | systems is where the drill string is . Um the old traditional drilling rigs |
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64:16 | now may be turning at the top the top drive for the, the |
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64:23 | at the top. So once here's our floor and there's a big |
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64:33 | here that's turning this kelly and then is the kelly that's being turned and |
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64:39 | is going up and down. That's we can add our drill pipe on |
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64:42 | being turned. This is a conventional . It could be turned by by |
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64:48 | top drive motor too. But for purposes, this is where all well |
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64:55 | are measured from the floor of the rig or what's this turning element, |
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65:03 | is the kelly. And the kelly is the uh the mechanism by which |
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65:15 | drill string turns the rotary drill So the kelly bushing is just this |
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65:22 | right here and this is the level KB. And that's where all |
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65:28 | logs originally measured from, from So we've just got a note on |
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65:33 | well log, one of the first is that where's ground level, where |
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65:37 | level. So there are other data we use. And as we |
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65:43 | this is just a note to remember . There are lots of things that |
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65:46 | called KB. So reminds us when , We use acronyms and short firms |
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65:55 | everything all the time, which is for our audience. But we have |
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65:59 | remember to be sensitive or aware of our audience knows. So if I |
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66:06 | KB at a basketball crowd, then course they're going to be thinking of |
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66:10 | Bryant or something like that. So K. B. And then with |
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66:23 | basic logging tool, as you a wire line log, which was |
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66:27 | standard way we, the standard we've got a recording truck. We've |
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66:31 | the wire line and then we've got wire line going into the well, |
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66:34 | drill string is out of the well and we've drilled the hole and we're |
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66:39 | doing open hole logging. So there's casing in the interval. So we're |
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66:47 | measuring the raw formation. And once , so here's a land drilling |
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66:57 | you can see that the kelly bushing the floor is maybe 10 ft or |
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67:02 | off ground level. So we have apply that if we're comparing the |
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67:07 | the seismic data might be some other . So we just have to figure |
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67:12 | out. So here we've got the tool and the guy on the rig |
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67:19 | it, this is zero, the is at K. B. And |
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67:23 | zero your instruments. And here's this picture, one of the very first |
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67:29 | that I was ever honest student and was in Alabama and you can see |
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67:37 | it was a while ago. Look the trucks Uh proto F150s or |
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67:44 | Slumbers a truck is almost the very . That's virtually the very same track |
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67:48 | they've got now. But this particular was in Alabama in an area on |
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67:57 | on the gulf shore's in Alabama and beautiful thing was that it was, |
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68:03 | was near the water but there's gorgeous there. I don't know they've ever |
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68:08 | around there but Alabama isn't that well for its beaches but they're actually |
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68:14 | I've actually always wanted to go. heard they're beautiful but I've never |
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68:19 | Yeah it's really worth a trip It's not that far away and it's |
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68:24 | that expensive because most people don't really about it. You know florida has |
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68:29 | all the cachet and everything but this area around Alabama the beaches are really |
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68:38 | . Now we didn't get to spend time there. But ah we had |
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68:43 | shirts made and the beautiful part is it's called the Redneck Riviera. And |
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68:52 | we had t shirts made of the Riviera and fortunately they spelt Riviera Ron |
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69:01 | that was good because no good redneck know how to spell Riviera Anyway so |
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69:08 | was a nice authentic t shirt, I think I told you this is |
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69:14 | of the ones that made me really . We were testing some tools and |
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69:17 | had a huge weight drop called the or it was a seismic source that |
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69:22 | an enormous wave that hit sideways to a share wave. And big guys |
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69:27 | New England students, especially the, red guys were kind of distrustful of |
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69:33 | at first. And so we were this experiment. They had, it |
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69:38 | kind of muddy, They had this weight drop. I was looking there |
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69:43 | see position myself perpendicular. So when weight dropped, I wanted to see |
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69:47 | it hit twice to see what the waveform was. All the guys in |
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69:51 | rig were watching about these wacko New doing experiments. So the weight drop |
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69:57 | down and hit the mud and the sprayed out and completely soaked me with |
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70:02 | and not proved to all the guys the rig that these grad students from |
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70:06 | England were idiots. And so we all got to know each other |
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70:12 | and better. But and incidentally, weight only hit once. So I |
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70:17 | happy. So where you going? , at the time, of course |
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70:23 | the rigs are not allowed to drink or anything, but people chew tobacco |
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70:33 | my father's business was a wholesale So I had grown up around tobacco |
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70:38 | all that stuff, but I had never chewed tobacco, but if you're |
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70:42 | be on that rig, you pretty had to chew tobacco. So so |
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70:48 | these guys were tobacco chewers. You have seen this, this kind of |
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70:52 | , but have you seen what people seriously to tobacco, do you have |
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70:57 | can? They spit the tobacco in can or into this platoon or |
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71:02 | So these guys walked out of the . So I started chewing tobacco and |
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71:08 | I didn't know that you weren't supposed swallow a little bit of it. |
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71:11 | I did and it makes you so . So that was the first and |
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71:18 | time I ever chewed tobacco. But the drilling engineer part of the |
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71:27 | Well this this is when you're a stuff. It turned out that the |
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71:33 | drilling engineer, the head guy his daughter was Miss Louisiana. So |
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71:37 | course all of us were interested in to know him better. Uh but |
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71:44 | any case the joys of life was student. So here's, here's one |
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71:49 | the rig sites you can see. now in this case we actually did |
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71:53 | gas at shallow gas. It was very exciting time because they had to |
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72:00 | the drill string out of the well down heavier mud to control it. |
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72:05 | the well didn't blow out. So was a very exciting well, but |
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72:14 | here all the logs and we've talked these before. These are all the |
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72:17 | logs that we're looking for and that all going to analyze again to refresh |
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72:22 | memory and get you some more So you can see one of the |
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72:31 | logs that we need is just the log that just tells us the size |
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72:35 | the shape of the borehole. And use that for lots of purposes that |
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72:39 | talk about. And then the sp , which is just measuring the voltage |
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72:49 | the surface and the borehole. But mainly shows us salinity differences between the |
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72:56 | mud in the well and the formation . So because there's usually a salinity |
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73:07 | between the fresh water mud and the and the formation, it means that |
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73:12 | there's going to be an ionic which is going to try to equal |
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73:16 | great the ion concentration in the drilling , which is low and the I |
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73:24 | the brightness saltiness of the formation, is high. So to a |
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73:29 | a great, the bride is going try to, the ions are gonna |
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73:34 | to homogenize to become equal and that's to be current flow. And we're |
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73:39 | measure that because that's related to So the sp log is very |
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73:44 | but what's driving it is a little complicated and useful. And then gamma |
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73:50 | all materials, as we mentioned, a little little bit, most materials |
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73:56 | a little bit of clay in them . And many of the clays have |
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74:02 | or something radioactive them. So there's little bit of radio activity in most |
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74:08 | up to a lot of radio activity shales. So we can measure the |
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74:18 | radio activity of the sediments in a tool. And that gives us a |
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74:24 | of correlation between rock types in between . The sonic time just measures very |
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74:33 | the the transit time of of a disturbance. An elastic wave propagating along |
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74:43 | borehole wall, just how long it to go from a source to |
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74:47 | And that gives us the velocity of rock, which is an indicator of |
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74:53 | type like we've shown before and an of ferocity. Then the resistive. |
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75:04 | E is in a sense the money because the resistive Itty measures the electrical |
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75:14 | . And just to go back is water electrically conductive? What do you |
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75:28 | ? Yes, not too conductive. nothing really ionic. It turns out |
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75:35 | fresh water. Now you're exactly right briny water brian has all kinds of |
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75:45 | . We've got the sodium and chlorides maybe fluoride and calcium. All kinds |
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75:50 | stuff. That in briny water we've lots of ions and electrons available. |
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76:00 | brines are extremely conductive, electricity. about organic matter, oil and gas |
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76:17 | that conductive? Electrically conductive. Um no not at all. There's nothing |
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76:31 | , there's nothing ionic really in uh four, there's nothing ionic there. |
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76:42 | hydrocarbons are very resistant. They are non conductive. So the way the |
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76:54 | ITty log works, it's measuring the resistive ITty of the rock is most |
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77:01 | itself. Like the matrix sandstone or ? Or is is a sandstone? |
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77:11 | conductive. Mm. No, no . There's there's nothing that is |
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77:22 | Again there's nothing that is ionic. the rock itself is typically very non |
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77:32 | also. So hydrocarbons are non Rock is non conductive. So if |
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77:38 | look at a hydrocarbon, saturated what do you expect it to be |
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77:43 | or conductive? Hydrocarbon, saturated settlement . Yeah, very resistant because the |
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77:58 | is resistive and the poor fluid is . So there's just nothing that's conducting |
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78:07 | . Simple terms. If I put in the rock which is normal, |
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78:13 | happens to the total rocks conductivity? , a little bit of brine allows |
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78:25 | to flow. And so when I've brian saturated rocks that are permeable, |
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78:33 | they are very conductive. So they a low resistive. Itty, high |
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78:38 | , low resistance conductivity is one over . Itty, reciprocal. So the |
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78:46 | . Itty logs are a strong indicator your fluids. So if we have |
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78:57 | resistive ITty, it's usually um permissible brian or brian situated. High |
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79:06 | Itty means that typically we've either got or there is no permeability that even |
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79:18 | I had brine, it's so low . It can't flow. So there's |
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79:24 | we'll look at that similar. When uh start thinking about relativity and logs |
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79:32 | detail. Then the other things that want are the density and the |
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79:38 | We want to know the density of rock because that's a strong rock |
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79:41 | That's a strong indicator. If I the density of the rock, Say |
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79:46 | Dead Sea, the rock is 2.1 per CC. Do you remember what |
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79:54 | of rock that would likely be? ? Is that a climbs? |
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80:08 | I don't think it was like Yeah. And then I don't shell |
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80:21 | , I don't remember. Well, actually could be those depending on the |
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80:27 | . But but if it's a competent , it's salt. So if we |
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80:31 | a big, that's salt. The of quartz is 2.65 g per |
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80:41 | And hydrates and lime stones are 2.72 eight they're dense. However, it |
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80:47 | true. If I put 20 or porosity in that and fill it with |
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80:51 | , then the velocity and the density going to be quite low, but |
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80:56 | as a non porous material, 2.1 typically solid, for example. So |
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81:04 | want to know the density and then want to know the porosity and this |
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81:09 | back to what our ultimate job Our ultimate job is usually to define |
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81:14 | layer and then define the ferocity and find the poor Phil and that gives |
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81:20 | how much money is there. And what the job is in straight economic |
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81:29 | . So we want to know the and then we want to know the |
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81:32 | Phil. And then the photoelectric effect another nuclear law. Um Well it's |
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81:41 | an atomic log. The uh and going to inject photons into the |
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81:47 | see how they interact with the And we're gonna count them and then |
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81:51 | what rock type it is directly from P. E. F. Photoelectric |
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81:56 | log. So those are the standard , there's more sophisticated logs, there's |
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82:01 | NMR nuclear magnetic resonance logs. They're accelerator logs. They're they're the borehole |
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82:09 | logs. So there are other ones . But these are the main ones |
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82:12 | we see all the time. Again there's just a ton of information |
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82:23 | . But this is really what all logs are used for. And you |
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82:30 | see that we make all these different measurements, every kind of possible physics |
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82:35 | we can put in a tool we're use it because we can, so |
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82:42 | the well logging world we use all in the surface geophysics world. It's |
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82:49 | seismic. A little bit of a little bit of Magnetics but mainly |
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82:55 | . But in the well logging world every kind of measurement. So you |
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83:01 | see that because we want to know these things about the rocks and then |
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83:08 | are different holes open, whole case between wells, all kinds of |
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83:13 | So we're gonna use all different logs many as possible because then they'll nail |
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83:18 | everything you want to know. So , as I mentioned, are our |
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83:28 | logs and now we're going to start go through them. And again, |
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83:34 | have all different depths of investigation all way from maybe six or 8 ft |
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83:40 | the formation to maybe only an inch two into the formation. So different |
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83:45 | penetrate more deeply. And then, mentioned, they, depending on the |
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83:54 | of the measurement, they can measure thin layers or very thick layers. |
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83:59 | so the some of the micro especially the relativity ones, can be |
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84:04 | small, sonic log might be measuring like a foot ah density logs and |
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84:16 | ray or somewhat even smaller. And some of the inductions which measures resistive |
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84:25 | can actually be very deeply penetrating and of course in the resolution. But |
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84:31 | gives you an idea, We're thinking the order of centimeters to meters in |
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84:34 | logging world. So that's the that's size. Okay, so here's our |
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84:50 | in the oil world. We've got find out what's the rock. And |
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84:54 | there hydrocarbons there, if they're How much and then uh ultimately how |
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85:03 | can we get out and how So let's let's just jump right into |
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85:20 | lives themselves. So we're gonna walk way through, here's just a picture |
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85:25 | the business end of a logging So we've got the wire line now |
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85:30 | we've drilled the well it's cased at top probably for safety. Now we're |
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85:35 | to lower tools into the well into open hole and make measurements of what |
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85:40 | of rock is there. So you see the wire line, this is |
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85:46 | to be deployed into the well. it's got a a set of logging |
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85:51 | on the on the other end logging . And the wire line itself typically |
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86:00 | seven conductors and it's seven wires inside protected cable. And those seven conductors |
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86:10 | used for power and data power down backup. And their little um raps |
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86:27 | the cable that are detected by this to say how much cable is going |
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86:34 | the well. And this is where get um the total depth or length |
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86:43 | the cable versus the true vertical We've got to have some deviation information |
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86:48 | some geometric information to correct the total of the cable to the vertical. |
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86:59 | there it is. Then just the numbers. When you start manipulating the |
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87:07 | , we remember that there has to a format. And this is the |
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87:11 | like your company does with standard we have to have standard formats. |
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87:16 | that was one of the standards. main standard is L. A. |
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87:20 | . Log askey. Standard. Just very basic way to exchange this log |
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87:26 | and you can see that it starts just describing the well where it |
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87:30 | who did it. Um And then curves that were measured the depth where |
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87:39 | curve is measured the caliper here, calipers, spectral, gamma ray, |
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87:43 | porosity, density, porosity and the . F. So and that's being |
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87:49 | at every one half. But I just trying to see where it |
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88:03 | oh yeah depth is in feet, feet and then calipers and inches and |
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88:09 | the others are relative values. so that's just what you're gonna see |
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88:16 | the header and if you have you with logs before, have you used |
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88:20 | of the software or manipulate logs? No not yet. Okay. You |
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88:27 | that would be that would be But here's the here's the format that |
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88:34 | data would come in. And then the first tool again here's the |
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88:38 | this is a four arm caliber and it can fully measure the major and |
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88:45 | axes of the well. Many wells a little bit ellipse idle depending on |
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89:07 | . So you can see that these actually go fold back in, the |
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89:15 | is put to the bottom of the and then the well is logged |
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89:20 | So when the tools at the bottom the well the arms are outwardly engaged |
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89:26 | then logging is up. So that's the and then that just gives us |
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89:42 | a major and a minor axis of , of the whole uh perfectly |
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89:49 | they'll give the same reading. If hole is a bit elliptical, they'll |
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89:52 | slightly different the the opposing arms, that's pretty basic measurement, but we |
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90:00 | it for a lot of different Um So the number one is just |
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90:08 | diameter of the well and the and shape. So one of the first |
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90:19 | basic things is we're going to case well, then we're gonna put the |
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90:26 | casing inside the well. So that us an inner Angeles. And then |
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90:33 | outer part is the the formation. we've got to figure out how much |
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90:39 | do I need to go between the and the formation. So the |
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90:46 | that's one diameter, the outer diameter the casing and how much do I |
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90:52 | to fill that? That annual, seems pretty obvious. But if you're |
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90:57 | person involved with trying to truck all cement to the well site or you |
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91:03 | delivering stuff offshore, you don't want screw that up the well might be |
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91:07 | miles offshore. So you don't want be sure on how much cement you |
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91:14 | out. On the other hand, don't want to take out too much |
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91:19 | it's expensive to get it there. simple calculation from the caliper log lets |
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91:26 | know if we base and cement the , how much, how much we |
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91:32 | , there's there's lots of other stuff we can derive from the, from |
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91:37 | simple measurement. If the well is out then we are flagged and that's |
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91:41 | problem area. We might be flagged . It's uh also kind of rock |
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91:48 | for this as a predisposition to break flag to fall in the well. |
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91:56 | if the well is squished in one that tells us what the maximum horizontal |
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92:04 | . So we can get all kinds stuff from the, from the caliper |
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92:14 | . If we wanted a really detailed description, then we could go to |
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92:18 | kind of more sophisticated log like this would give us a really, really |
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92:26 | view of the well. So again we're reading the the caliper log and |
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92:37 | caliper log is gonna be plotted on on the far side typically of the |
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92:43 | log report. If the caliper gets then and the bit of the bit |
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92:51 | that was just consistent. If it big, then that's gonna flag as |
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92:55 | that's a problem area. Some of logs aren't going to work very |
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92:58 | but it's also an indicator of what of rocket is this might be |
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93:03 | It might be unconsolidated sand, it be a cold, it's friable. |
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93:09 | that's a flag. Sometimes the caliper say the well diameter is less than |
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93:17 | drill bit. Well at first, could that be the drill bit has |
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93:24 | a hole that's a certain size. could you be measuring something that's smaller |
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93:29 | that could be that the formation is or that it's swollen or that it's |
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93:36 | permeable and it's accepting mud and that deposits. It's mud cake or it's |
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93:42 | and creates a smaller hole. So actually look for this mud cake build |
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93:48 | or this smaller part of the whole that can be an indicator of |
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93:59 | So once again if our caliper log big and signals a washout and that |
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94:09 | distort some of the well log measurements you can imagine now I've got a |
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94:13 | hole and I'm trying to measure the in the middle but I'm really measuring |
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94:17 | of the properties of the fluid not formation because I've gotta wash that |
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94:22 | So as you can imagine if suppose got a radioactive formation but now it's |
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94:28 | out. So my detector is farther . What do you think the gamma |
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94:33 | is going to show? It's radioactive it shows. So it's would it |
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94:50 | would it be like a low Yeah. Our detectors are farther away |
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94:57 | the emitter and you wouldn't necessarily know at this stage but submitting gamma rays |
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95:03 | gamma rays are absorbed any buy anything detector and the fluid is going to |
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95:09 | the gamma rays. So if my is going down here? Typically the |
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95:14 | here but then I've got to wash . So my emitters are farther |
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95:18 | There's still some gamma rays that get but they're attenuated because they're farther |
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95:23 | And sure enough you can see that gamma ray log is lower values. |
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95:30 | does that mean that it's less No it just means that the hole |
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95:33 | washed out of my detectors farther So we're going to always take a |
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95:37 | look at the caliper to make sure the whole itself is in fairly good |
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95:43 | and not washed out. So that's immediate purpose that we're always going to |
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95:58 | at for the uh the caliper whenever looking at the well the well logs |
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96:03 | that's again just to make sure that well logs are not being compromised by |
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96:09 | borehole problem. So now another clear is that if if I've got a |
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96:18 | drilled but I've got strong horizontal stress a maximum then it's just mechanically I'm |
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96:27 | squish the well. So in areas of strong dominant maximum horizontal stress or |
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96:38 | squishing in a certain direction, then expect the boreholes are gonna distort a |
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96:45 | bit and get thinner in the direction the maximum squish. So when you |
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96:57 | of think about the tectonics of the part of the US and Canada we |
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97:05 | got a subduction zone on the west . So if you we're imagining which |
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97:16 | you think would be the direction of squish in western north America, will |
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97:30 | be um east west. Yeah. know it's it's a little bit complicated |
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97:40 | of course you've got to transform situation California. But in these areas of |
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97:48 | it's a compressive regime. And so that's exactly right. The the maximum |
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97:58 | stress is somewhat perpendicular to the So if that's the maximum stress direction |
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98:11 | we expect it to squish the rock that direction. So that's gonna be |
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98:16 | thinnest part of the ellipse and the is gonna distended or be extended in |
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98:24 | perpendicular direction. So again if I'm I'm squishing a hole this way it's |
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98:31 | gonna become elongated, perpendicular, shortest going to be in the direction of |
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98:40 | horizontal stress maximum. And and we that once you're in the center part |
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98:46 | the continent it's it's a lot But there's actually kind of a line |
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98:51 | goes along the rockies where the rockies typically under a little bit of compressive |
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98:57 | . So that's that the good news that we can use that electricity just |
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99:05 | define what the horizontal stresses. So do we care? Well all through |
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99:12 | , west texas we're going to hydraulically the rock and if there's horizontal stress |
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99:22 | there is the rock is going to in the direction that's easiest. So |
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99:31 | I pressurize up the whole and I'm with a horizontal hole here then it's |
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99:40 | can pick any direction to break. gonna pick the direction it's easiest to |
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99:49 | . And as you can imagine that is going to be the direction that's |
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99:55 | compressing it. So the break is to be in the direction of minimum |
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100:03 | stress. So that's where the actual is. The fracture itself is going |
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100:17 | go along the fracture itself is going go along the line of maximum |
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100:22 | It's breaking apart in the direction of stress. That's just the easiest thing |
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100:27 | do. But the direction of that is in the maximum stress. So |
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100:33 | can see that and that's the way rock's gonna break. So for hydraulically |
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100:38 | all the rocks gonna break in that . And so we need to know |
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100:43 | so that we drill our wells perpendicular that direction. So we're gonna drill |
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100:51 | horizontal well and it's gonna break perpendicular , everywhere down the well, that's |
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100:56 | idea. And then we're going to the most volume with the broken |
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101:03 | So that's the game. I have stimulate the reservoir. I have to |
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101:08 | the rock. So I'm trying to as much of the rock as possible |
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101:11 | cheaply as possible. So we need know what's the direction of maximum stress |
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101:25 | the fracture is actually going to go that direction. The reason for that |
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101:34 | the game. It's opening up against minimum the least amount of stress. |
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101:49 | , so now our next simple tools just discussed was was the S. |
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101:54 | . Or the spontaneous potential. And an easy log, we just put |
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102:02 | electrode into the surface, then there's wire down to the tip of the |
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102:05 | and we're measuring the voltage between those . But mainly that's just the voltage |
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102:12 | the fluid and the formation. So different ionic uh concentrations that will the |
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102:24 | and the formation. The fluids and well are going to try to equal |
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102:26 | great and that aquila gration is ions and when ions are moving that's |
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102:34 | And if current is moving that is or the result of a potential or |
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102:41 | . So we're gonna pick up that which is an indicator of fluid |
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102:46 | which is an indicator of bionic which is an indicator of permeability. |
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102:51 | when I get an sp kick, means that there's movement going on |
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102:54 | that means that there's permeability. So our permeability log. Okay, so |
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103:11 | again, because the fluid in the say it's typically on land, a |
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103:18 | resist of mud in the formation. did we say is usually in the |
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103:25 | in terms of fluids brian brian is conductive. Yes, yeah. So |
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103:39 | formation typically has a conductive brine in and the drilling mud on land is |
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103:48 | a resist of fresh water based So there's a salinity difference. So |
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103:56 | like if you poured some fresh water a salty drink, it's gonna |
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104:03 | Likewise the brine and the mud are to try to mix and that's going |
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104:08 | cause current flow. And when there's current flow we're gonna pick it up |
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104:12 | that's RSP or our current flow, voltage measurement. So when we um |
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104:59 | logging with this you can see what responses are that when there is current |
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105:09 | or permeability we get a kick and often at the boundary of shale |
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105:15 | The shale surface is a little bit . So the boundary is is also |
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105:22 | voltage generator in a sense. So are not really permeable. So we're |
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105:29 | to get no response in the shale we're going to get a good response |
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105:33 | the sand. So it's sort of shale indicator too because the shells are |
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105:41 | permissible. So it's got no So the response is flat. We're |
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105:46 | in a in a more shale Okay, so now let's look at |
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105:55 | natural gamma and that will complete our swipe of these logs. So the |
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106:02 | gamma once again is is just measuring natural radio activity and radio activity in |
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106:09 | earth is mainly because of cut U. T. H. So |
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106:16 | again that's the pneumonic device to remember radioactive. Just remember radio activity hurts |
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106:23 | . So it's like cutting you. that's K. U th potassium uranium |
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106:28 | thorium those are big radioactive Adams they send out gamma rays which are |
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106:42 | energetic and they're very low dose but don't want to be in the way |
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106:49 | a lot of gamma radiation, I want to sleep on top of |
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107:04 | So again the potassium is in a of the clay minerals. So that's |
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107:10 | the gamma ray log is often, just measures radio activity from anything. |
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107:16 | a lot of that radio activity is from potassium which is really attached generally |
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107:21 | clays. However, uh it sometimes be in granite and granite washes. |
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107:30 | typically there might be radioactive sands, that's unusual and there might be radioactive |
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107:37 | . That's also unusual. But I know whether I told you the story |
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107:42 | we were first doing our field camps in Montana, I drilled a couple |
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107:48 | wells up there, just shallow wells for us to log for a student |
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107:56 | and because I wanted to know what rocks were. So we brought up |
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107:59 | drilling rig and I helped the guy we uh as I was helping him |
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108:05 | the drill pipe and everything, he that he usually brings somebody to help |
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108:09 | . He has a helper. I being his helper with all the drill |
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108:13 | and I said, well where is ? And he said, well I |
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108:16 | a piece of drill pipe on it broke his legs. Number one, |
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108:23 | number two, do I want to on this thing, Do I want |
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108:27 | help you? Do I really want help you. So anyway, we |
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108:32 | the well drilled and we called it well logger to log the wells and |
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108:37 | guy came up and the guy was and so he logged the wells and |
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108:44 | Gamma ray showed really high readings and was a little bit irritated because number |
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108:50 | I was paying him and he was and he logged wells. So the |
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108:55 | ray was really high and I you know, there's something wrong |
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108:59 | I know we were in carbonates and know, carbonates are generally clean. |
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109:07 | I said, I really want you log this well again, which he |
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109:15 | and it came back high again and wasn't drunk the second time he logged |
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109:19 | so that this is weird, but , so we paid him and then |
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109:24 | was out hiking and it turned out , in one of the areas and |
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109:29 | bumped into one of the guides, of the geologic survey guides. So |
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109:34 | was talking to him and he oh, I'm a geologist. I |
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109:36 | , you know what, this is of weird, but maybe you'll know |
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109:40 | drilled and logged as well and it getting really, really high radio |
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109:44 | but we're in carbonate so that was up. And I said the logger |
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109:47 | drunk first time, but not second and he said, oh yeah, |
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109:53 | said they're uranium mines around here, is Montana, the uranium is concentrated |
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109:59 | the carbonates, there you go. um Montana is full of good things |
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110:11 | interesting surprises. So here you had which are normally very clean, very |
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110:17 | radioactive. But every once in a you had ground water that was flowing |
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110:21 | that was had uranium in it, gets attached to the carbonates. And |
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110:26 | good uranium mines in carbonates. So the gamma ray was kind of off |
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110:36 | in this area. This is not confuse the issue is just to say |
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110:43 | generally these rules, we go by general rules but there are exceptions to |
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110:49 | rules all the time, which is there is the S P. |
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110:53 | L. A. The society of physicists and well log analysts who get |
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110:58 | big bucks because they know the Okay, so we're logging through the |
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111:10 | and again the gamma rays are One of our simplest and most beloved |
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111:15 | because it's it's pretty easy and it's . So the way it works is |
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111:23 | a sodium iodide detector and when a ray hits the sodium iodide crystal it |
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111:31 | off an electron and then that crystal in a voltage separator that accelerates the |
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111:38 | and it gives a click when it the detector. So that's a Geiger |
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111:43 | . So the the gamma ray logging is really just a Geiger counter. |
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111:50 | on the surface it's strictly counting gamma hits in a classic environment, we |
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112:00 | attached that gamma ray hit two radio and a clay material which is |
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112:06 | So generally speaking the gamma ray log a correlation log but it's a it's |
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112:11 | clay or shale indicator or in very cases it's a uranium thorium indicator. |
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112:19 | if we get more sophisticated we can filters on the gamma ray and it's |
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112:24 | a spectral gamma ray and it will out the energies of the different gamma |
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112:29 | and give us three tracks a potassium and thorium track to say which element |
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112:39 | the gamma ray because they have different and so we can filter for |
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112:43 | The simplest natural gamma just lumps them together. More sophisticated spectra, gamma |
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112:50 | gr spectral gamma rays separate those and we get a track for each |
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113:02 | Great. Okay so the the gamma um is a nice easy log and |
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113:20 | counts the hits. But of course the tools again. Thinking more about |
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113:25 | tools and operations. Most the tools different sensitivities. So therefore we needed |
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113:32 | , we needed the calibration, we to say your tool gives me 500 |
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113:37 | . This other guy's tool gave me hits what's going on and the detectors |
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113:42 | different. So we want to say about the rocks and so we're going |
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113:47 | have to standardize the tools so that's one and then we're gonna get an |
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113:55 | . So to standardize the tools was at U. Of H. So |
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114:01 | the well logging world, University of was very famous because it built way |
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114:07 | in the fifties it built the calibration for every well log on earth. |
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114:14 | that was done at U. Of . So it was called the |
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114:17 | P. I. Log calibration And what they did was they |
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114:24 | they drilled a big hole And this on campus, it's only about two |
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114:28 | 300 yards from our building. Uh a big hole put in non radioactive |
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114:36 | and then dope cement with uranium potassium thorium had eight ft of that and |
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114:44 | put on another layer of non So we've got this radioactive interval of |
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114:52 | radio activity. So everybody would bring logging tool And the logging tool would |
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115:00 | naturally output their counts per second. then that was calibrated to a standard |
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115:06 | and the standard number was 200. whatever your gamma ray tool output, |
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115:15 | had a scaling factor to make that equal to 200. And that was |
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115:20 | a 200 api unit. And the of radio activity was built to be |
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115:28 | to a mid continent radioactive shale. 200 api units is a strongly radioactive |
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115:39 | like the Pierre Shale. So that's . And all the tools were |
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115:47 | Then of course not everybody could find tool to Houston to be calibrated. |
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115:51 | so People develop standards like yours that radioactive standards and you would have a |
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115:59 | piece of radio activity that you brought to your tool and then you would |
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116:02 | the tool to read 200 with that standard. But uh even when I |
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116:11 | came here 14 years ago there were companies were bringing their tools to the |
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116:15 | . P. I. Pits on and calibrating them. So we logged |
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116:20 | many times. Here's some former students Ruiz, working for E. |
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116:27 | G. And Jingjing Zhang, now professor in china and some other |
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116:33 | Here's the pit itself and then you log through that and make a measurement |
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116:39 | calibrate your tool. And so what mythology as you can see when we |
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116:48 | it through the shale. This is a very strong shale in this particular |
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116:54 | , sand has almost no radio limestone, coal, salt. |
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117:00 | And then of course uh once again shales are hydrated activity. So let's |
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117:17 | go back and just look at some and analyze them. But we're just |
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117:24 | just about an hour or so So why don't we take a quick |
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117:27 | again and then we'll come back and this log. So let's take seven |
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117:34 | 8 minutes or so and Come back around just before 320 and then we'll |
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117:40 | on. Alright, see you Okay great. Um We're back and |
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117:49 | bad. Um So um how you ? Stephanie. You're doing okay. |
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118:00 | . I'm doing good arrival and Yeah just pushing through. Yeah. |
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118:07 | have a quick look at this uh log and start to step our way |
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118:13 | . We haven't talked about all this but when we look at the gamma |
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118:18 | , so the we've got the log 0 to 1 25. And then |
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118:24 | course sometimes as we said it's gonna greater than that but we've only got |
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118:28 | piece of graph paper. So what traditionally do is wrap around if the |
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118:35 | gets beyond this, then you just plotting on the other side. So |
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118:40 | see that sometimes um the resistance the is provided in logarithmic values because it |
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118:48 | varies by so much that if we had a linear scale often you wouldn't |
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118:54 | very much on it. So it's . But let's look at the gamma |
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118:59 | . So we've got 01 25 in P. I. Units. And |
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119:05 | typically we're thinking anything Around 100 and is going to be a shale zero |
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119:16 | going to be a very clean Although we generally don't see any kind |
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119:20 | rock that is absolutely zero clay in because of all the clay that's |
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119:27 | So when you look down this gamma log we're going down down down, |
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119:31 | down and then you can see that drops quite a bit and we've got |
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119:35 | layer. So how would you describe layer? Uh It would be a |
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119:52 | . Yeah. So first stepping through , it's just obvious, it's low |
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119:56 | . Itty at least on low low ray. So low radio activity. |
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120:00 | number one, we're just gonna say radio activity. Now it's annotated |
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120:05 | but this is a classic section. turns out so we're only dealing with |
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120:10 | and shells were going to say, know this is a Shelly Shelly |
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120:15 | Then we go into a low radio which we interpret the sand and then |
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120:20 | come out of it. So our is obviously going to be to pick |
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120:24 | top of that sand and again this just one dimensional. We're just going |
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120:27 | it. So we're hitting that sand and we can pick the top pretty |
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120:32 | and the base of sand pretty Now the other log here is the |
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120:51 | log. And we said when the log gives a kick, what did |
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120:57 | mean again or when it when it a departure or when it has ah |
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121:08 | isn't that the mixing of the So that's when the brine is mixed |
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121:11 | water. Okay. So and we that that solidity mixing was an indicator |
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121:17 | what it was an indicator of? . Hold on. If the sure |
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121:40 | we can if if there's if there's allowed that it has to be permissible |
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121:47 | we see this kick on this PSP . What does that tell us? |
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122:00 | ? Yeah. So we can see attach that layer. That layer is |
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122:08 | above. It is not that permeable below. It is not that |
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122:22 | Okay, now, the if we're to get really detailed, it turns |
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122:37 | that at the very bottom of the interval we see that there's a pretty |
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122:46 | sp kick. So you'd be tempted say that that is very permeable. |
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123:05 | we also remember that the way the works, there has to be a |
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123:12 | difference. Mhm. So there's a salinity difference at the bottom but less |
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123:24 | difference at the top. So it like it's a uniform sand but it |
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123:34 | like there's less salinity difference at the . So we might think there's less |
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123:40 | here, but there's really less salinity . So we kind of flag down |
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123:43 | our minds that this is a bit a funny signature. Now we'll talk |
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123:50 | this some more but we go over the resistive itty logs and again, |
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123:57 | haven't discussed this in detail yet, we'll go through it. There are |
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124:03 | typically three tracks to the resistance. likes, one has in effect widely |
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124:12 | electrodes, one has narrowly spaced, the smaller one only detects a little |
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124:18 | into the formation like an inch or spaces going to detect something like three |
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124:24 | . And long spacing might detect something five or five or six ft into |
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124:28 | formation. So the shallow resistive. is really typically just detecting in the |
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124:40 | that's flushed or invaded. So so remember that we've got the over pressure |
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125:02 | mud that invades the formation. And the drilling mud starts to get into |
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125:08 | rock. So you can imagine in permeable formation if the drilling mud is |
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125:19 | , what does it do to all native original fluids? Check them |
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125:25 | pushes them back. So now our mud was fresh water. So we |
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125:34 | that was resistant or conductive resistant. resistant. So we've got the freshwater |
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125:43 | mud that's invading the formation and it's out everything there. So now I've |
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125:50 | resist of drilling mud and resist of . So in the shallow formation what |
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125:57 | we expect? The resistive Itty to almost brushing low. Well it's going |
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126:04 | be very resistant. We've got resistive , we've got resistance fluid. Oh |
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126:12 | sorry I was yeah we're there. and that's what we see. So |
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126:17 | is a very permeable formation by RSP . It's probably sand and so near |
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126:23 | borehole wall the drilling mud has flushed invaded and pushed out everything there. |
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126:30 | brine, the oil whatever is It's pushed it all out. It's |
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126:35 | extremely resistant. And so that's what what we see now deeper in the |
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126:45 | . The mud can't flow that it might get an inch or two |
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126:48 | the formation but we're gonna log well after it's drilled. So the mud |
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126:53 | gone very deep. so deeper in formation, we still see that it's |
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126:58 | resistive in the formation. So does tell us that's brian saturated or hydrocarbon |
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127:09 | ? It's very resistant. Still hydrocarbon . Yeah. So why does it |
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127:20 | we flush the shallow formation? Why the deeper formation not as resistant? |
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127:31 | still an itty bitty bit of brine the in the un invaded formation so |
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127:36 | it's oil but there might be 5% something of brine that makes it a |
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127:41 | bit conductive but not very. So general when we look at the signature |
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127:52 | from left to right and assuming that is a classic section. So just |
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127:59 | and shale, how do we interpret layer? So once again the Gamma |
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128:06 | says low radio activity which we're interpreting sand. Yeah, not shale, |
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128:20 | , it's sand. So we say a very nice sand layer and then |
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128:24 | sp tells us we have permeability, permeable. And then the resistive Itty |
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128:31 | us that there's a high resistive itty in the shallow part because of the |
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128:41 | out and then it goes that's that right there that's going to be the |
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128:47 | because there's still a little bit of that makes it a little bit |
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128:51 | Yeah, that's right. And so our interpretation. So this is the |
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128:55 | dunk for a beautiful hydrocarbon reservoir, , permeable and resistant. So hydrocarbon |
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129:08 | traded and there's generally a little little of brian and it's still like a |
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129:13 | or two or something. So it's it's still very resistant. Here's the |
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129:20 | , the shell is got resistive, ease around Say eight or 9. |
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129:31 | then when we go into the hydrocarbon sands, we've got resistance around 200 |
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129:36 | or something like that. So very . Now this is getting a bit |
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129:43 | advanced. But if we look at sp effect, this sand is |
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129:51 | So the sp log in the top really say it's permeable as we |
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130:01 | Why is that? Well, it's we've got oil, the oil is |
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130:07 | . So the top of this reservoir probably 100% oil almost and the drilling |
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130:15 | is freshwater. So do we have ionic possibilities there? No. So |
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130:25 | the reservoir is permeable, we've got and fresh water and it's not that |
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130:31 | ironically to mix because there's no reason there's no there's no ionic difference. |
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130:37 | it doesn't need to equip vibrate. this is called the hydrocarbon effect on |
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130:43 | sp log at the bottom because we have a little bit of brine in |
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130:49 | bottom of the formation, it is to equip liberate, but the oil |
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130:55 | all floating on top of it and not trying to equal a great, |
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131:00 | we get a big kick in the , which shows us are porous and |
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131:06 | sand and then it gets moderated, though its permeable, it gets moderated |
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131:10 | there's nothing to electronically flow. So that's kind of the the detailed interpretation |
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131:18 | this beautiful sandstone layer, hydrocarbon saturated just ready to produce. Okay, |
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131:36 | gonna go through some more of these but now we know that we understand |
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131:41 | gamma and the sp, we've talked those and again this seems overwhelming all |
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131:46 | different responses. But as we work it all starts to get logical and |
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131:50 | understand it. So the gamma ray , shale or not shale in |
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131:57 | the S. P. Permissible or permeable. So we understand those guys |
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132:08 | you can see that in this the gamma ray and then we can |
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132:14 | a little bit lessening and even these log responses, the hydrocarbon effect dampening |
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132:21 | sp log. So you're saying it's because it's not as like pronounced, |
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132:39 | guess you could say like it's not a steep. So would there be |
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132:41 | dampening down there at that last Would that be another sp Yes. |
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132:49 | so you can see exactly the effect game that there's a kick, we |
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132:54 | see that we're going into a porous least a permeable area. And so |
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133:00 | definitely a kick. But they're saying that even schematically there's hydrocarbon on top |
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133:07 | finally we're getting down to the bottom there's more a quill operation. So |
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133:14 | wasn't a sharp corner if we're going the top of a brian. Say |
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133:19 | you look up at the sandstone schematically when you hit the top of |
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133:24 | brine there there's a nice kick. pretty definitive because there's the bryan versus |
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133:32 | freshwater mud that's definitive. Likewise, we go into the bottom, coming |
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133:37 | of the freshwater mud into an impermeable , but you can see that this |
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133:43 | kind of gradual hydrocarbon, gradual for . Okay, I see that. |
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133:53 | even up here, they've got an that in freshwater in the formation and |
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134:00 | mud, there's no kick at Then you go into the brine and |
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134:05 | start to get the kick. These schematic logs too, but that's that's |
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134:13 | idea. Okay, so we and we talked a little bit about resist |
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134:21 | e we'll go into these logs in , but you can see that when |
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134:26 | hit the gas or oil, the activity kicks up, we go into |
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134:36 | water, just a little bit going a resistive. Cool. It's it's |
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134:41 | . So there's nothing conductive chips and conductive and hydrate, nothing conductive. |
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134:46 | these are all high resistive, it salt straight salt, there's nothing conductive |
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134:52 | rock salt. So the salt itself no ionic flow because it's rock salt |
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135:03 | soon as I put a little water that it's gonna get conductive, but |
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135:09 | we do that. No. so those are some of the basic |
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135:25 | , we'll refer back to those in um various times. So here I'm |
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135:32 | showing the the layers and if we to look at this in more detail |
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135:37 | , you can we picked the top the sandstone there, the base of |
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135:42 | sandstone there based on the gamma ray the S. P. And then |
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135:47 | can even start to see what I'm to interpret as brine, oil and |
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135:53 | on the top. Now part of is because I can see density |
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136:01 | The density log says there's a little lower density here and then when I |
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136:05 | into oil slightly higher density. Likewise the bottom, I'm gonna pick the |
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136:16 | of the limestone there, the base the limestone, gas, oil and |
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136:24 | water. Okay, so for the case here's logs that we that we |
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136:36 | and made in lamarche. And so have drilled a couple of shallow wells |
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136:43 | for 25 ft wells 425 ft. here we're logging so for example, |
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136:50 | can see the geothermal gradient. We about that and this is around three |
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136:55 | C per 100 m. So that's standard getting warmer as we go |
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137:01 | And then let's look at the gamma here's low gamma ray than high gamma |
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137:07 | . And how would you interpret these ray logs? What do you see |
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137:14 | in the gamma ray log? Um then gamma ray. So well it's |
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137:32 | from in like the dash sections, those are like relative to what's around |
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137:40 | . Are there lows relative to what's them? So those are the |
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137:45 | So those are gamma ray lows Yeah. And so what kind of |
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137:53 | we have or do we have salt the surface? Carbonates on the surface |
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137:56 | here? Like in the top 100 or four or 500 ft around |
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138:05 | What kind of material is it? been out to Lamarque. So it's |
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138:12 | even in Houston or the woodlands, what's the the predominant material in the |
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138:20 | ? In the near surface? Yeah, clay, organics, |
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138:29 | yeah, gumbo crap literally. So the near surface here we're gonna call |
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138:37 | more or less a classic section. ? So if we've got gamma ray |
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138:43 | , what are we going to call in general? Um sands. |
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138:55 | You're sending and gamma ray high's what we going to call that? Our |
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139:03 | not shells. Um Yeah, Shelli or clay rich. Yeah. |
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139:10 | . So that's that's the near surface here. And so that's what we |
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139:14 | guess strictly from the gamma ray log and we could put in these layers |
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139:20 | that's what we did and we're calling layers sandy layers and then the layers |
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139:27 | them are primarily more clay rich or like layers. So now let's go |
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139:36 | and look at the resistive ITty And I think you can see that |
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139:40 | some character in the resistive Itty log straight resistive itty we're in the near |
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139:48 | here. So we remember that there's fresh water down to maybe 1000 ft |
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139:55 | something. So and as fresh water are conducted resistant. Right? So |
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140:06 | as you go down, tell me little bit about the resistive itty |
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140:13 | Okay. Um Well those dash those are high festivity. So those |
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140:21 | resistant Lehigh's. Yeah. So and did we draw those lines? Those |
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140:29 | lines to separate our sections? From what and what are we |
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140:34 | Those lines contain sand? Yeah. . So now you know that those |
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140:40 | extending across that's our interpretation of the layer. So that's a bit of |
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140:46 | guide. And now it kind of like those sand lines. Do they |
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140:52 | with the resistive? Itty Yes. they seem to kind of define resistive |
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141:02 | anomalies to so and again what kind resisted the anomalies are in there? |
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141:11 | . So what does that generally indicate ? Well that's the sp not the |
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141:23 | . Uh over. Um Probably can ask the question one more time. |
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141:38 | sorry. So we're putting all these together and we're trying to interpret these |
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141:49 | three logs and on the basis of gamma ray we know that this is |
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141:54 | classic section. So we've we defined tops and the bottoms of the gamma |
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142:00 | anomalies to give us what we are is our sand layers. Now we're |
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142:04 | at the next log, which is resistive Itty log. And fortunately we're |
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142:10 | that the sad layers seem to define Itty character to Yeah. And so |
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142:21 | what's your thinking of that? What's rise to those resistive? Itty highs |
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142:28 | could be brian or sol no because are resistive. O hydrocarbons. Well |
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142:39 | could be, it could be hydrocarbons we're at 100 ft. It could |
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142:46 | though, that's what we'd be expecting hydrocarbons and if I was in a |
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142:49 | site that was contaminated I probably would , hey you've got hydrocarbons there, |
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142:55 | your contaminant. But I'll tell you not hydrocarbons. So what else can |
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143:02 | me resistance? The highs salt Right, brine. Saltwater that that's |
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143:20 | . Right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm missing something here. What kind |
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143:32 | water is not conductive, freshwater? what do you think? So I've |
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143:50 | a sand and it's giving me a Itty high. What's in it, |
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143:59 | you just said it there's just water the sand? Yeah, but what |
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144:08 | of water this one? Yeah, . It's not salt water because that |
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144:14 | be a relatively low, I don't why would the resistive it is throwing |
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144:19 | off because in my head if it's don't know why like there's there's a |
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144:23 | in my head with that but it's me, no, it's it's normal |
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144:28 | we've talked unfortunate about conductivity and Itty and. So you know what |
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144:34 | everybody screws them up. So you to be, it depends where you |
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144:38 | think. You can talk about fresh as being low conductivity and brian being |
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144:43 | conductivity, you can think of it way. But the logs are not |
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144:47 | that way. In general, the give a resistive itty so it's better |
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144:52 | think about high resistive Itty is being hydrocarbons because that's what we want. |
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144:57 | where the logs are plotted. So we see that kick to the |
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145:02 | conventionally that's high resistive itty. And we're looking for that, we'd like |
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145:08 | see that kick to the right because hydrocarbons. But a water. Well |
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145:12 | , if I'm a geotechnical guy or shallow earth guy, when I get |
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145:17 | kick to the right, I'm happy because that's an indicator of fresh |
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145:29 | So this is the classic signature of good water. Well, it's got |
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145:40 | because sand is low gam er and I'm seeing that sandy very it's high |
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145:46 | itty, which in this area would interpreted as fresh water And I want |
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145:54 | see fresh water in general because I'm looking for an aquifer. If I'm |
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145:58 | to build a subdivision down there or else or I'm a farmer and I |
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146:02 | my water. Well I'm gonna be as punch, I'm gonna be happy |
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146:07 | I may have an indication of freshwater only 100 ft deep. So that's |
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146:12 | news and you can see in the well so we've got a, well |
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146:17 | close by. If we look at in this interval, can you see |
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146:22 | point steadily? Okay so this what's that's the gamma ray log is |
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146:28 | gamma ray higher low. Okay so do we interpret that to be |
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146:35 | sand And then I go across the Itty, resistive Itty high, very |
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146:41 | defined. Mhm. Well how am going to interpret that? That's gonna |
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146:49 | like our watery sand again, that's that we're going to interpret that as |
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146:54 | fresh water saturated sand and it's a one. Okay. Yeah. Okay |
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147:23 | with just those two logs that's how can interpret it. That's the that's |
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147:27 | lethality and the saturation at Lamarque. we've made some progress and now we |
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147:38 | plotted the conductivity which is just one the resistive itty. That's the that's |
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147:52 | as a little example of log So now you've just done your first |
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147:58 | interpretation in the last day. Oh and again there are a lot |
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148:11 | different logs. It's intimidating at first confusing. It's amazing how how nice |
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148:21 | becomes. I like log analysis a because they're all different physics and it |
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148:26 | get complicated but it will make sense this is just these are just the |
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148:31 | and there's a reason. So we , it's a bit of a |
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148:35 | I don't know whether you like playing games or anything but it's nice to |
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148:40 | these little puzzles. A lot of do a puzzle called word all. |
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148:49 | I'm not very good at it. well my family and friends we all |
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148:57 | all play it and so we either in our beer because it took us |
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149:04 | to get it or you exchange that made your week because you got it |
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149:09 | two and that's very special. But been doing them somebody told me about |
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149:17 | about a year ago so I've done most days for the last year and |
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149:22 | you get your statistics which is also of fun. So I think I've |
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149:28 | over the last year and doing probably 200. I've got them in to |
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149:34 | times. Ah I've missed a Not gotten them at six so that's |
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149:44 | and then I'm averaging about 3.9. takes almost four tries to get |
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149:49 | That's that's my stance. My husband always gets them in 2 to |
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149:54 | I don't know how but he's never a four. Really? Yeah he's |
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149:59 | so good and he doesn't look I up words. I'm like five letter |
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150:04 | with an ancient and Ian them in . He'll just oh it's this like |
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150:08 | do you know he gets them 2 3 every time. Well that is |
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150:12 | really good. That's that's excellent. very jealous of it. Yeah. |
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150:18 | that's that's really, really good. know, actually these statistics are kept |
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150:23 | over the world to, it's kind funny and you can look at which |
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150:26 | in the world does the best person , but which english speaking countries in |
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150:30 | world do the best. And I as I recollect the best statistics coming |
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150:36 | new Zealand or Australia or some So that that's kind of surprising. |
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150:42 | Anyway, two is very good. and three is very good too. |
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150:49 | for I think for most people is average. So he's well above |
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150:58 | Oh good. Well, well logs a bit the same. So you've |
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151:01 | to try to guess what's what's the of saturated this log uh just for |
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151:09 | , if you're musically interested, we also take these logs And I tried |
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151:15 | them too through a midi synthesizer to . So this is just for |
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151:21 | I think I probably played them for . I don't know whether a couple |
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151:23 | years ago or not, but this the idea um it turned out that |
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151:29 | of one of my students was a musician. And so I had this |
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151:34 | to map take well, logs and them through a midi synthesizer to voices |
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151:39 | so we did that and you can the well log and just make music |
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151:44 | of it. And so we it was a lot of fun and |
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151:48 | it turned out one of the scG was in new Orleans. So we |
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151:52 | this paper in new Orleans about what I did call it was logjam |
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152:01 | and then the seismic symphonies. So we composed it. Part of the |
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152:08 | was to that if someone was handicapped was visually impaired, my idea was |
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152:15 | map this to sound so that if could hear you could maybe hear the |
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152:20 | instead of seeing them. Because one the guys I taught with was semi |
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152:28 | , he's one of the best well in the world, but he gradually |
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152:31 | going blind ross crane and if you up crane you'll see that He's he's |
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152:38 | Worldwide Master for Log Interpretation Cross And he's got a website called Spectrum |
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152:46 | . But we taught a course together he taught me most of what I |
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152:49 | about. Well logging, he's one the best in the world and uh |
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152:57 | unfortunately he was blind. I used take him to class and he would |
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153:00 | onto my arm and I'd walk into class and then he would explain while |
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153:08 | . So part of this idea was of for a disability like that, |
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153:12 | you could take a visual log, is just numbers. And then the |
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153:17 | synthesizer takes numbers and maps into a on a keyboard. And then from |
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153:25 | keyboard note, you can give it voice you want and you shape it |
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153:30 | . So you can map uh well to music anyway, that's that's just |
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153:40 | thing you can do with, well if you're interested. Okay let's uh |
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153:46 | a start on logging. I'm just to switch to another presentation. Okay |
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154:11 | we've looked now at caliper logs, a bit of understanding of those. |
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154:16 | looked at the S. P. which gave us permeability and electronic flow |
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154:25 | then we looked at the gamma ray was strictly measuring the naturally emitted gamma |
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154:31 | from the formation which we interpret to largely a clay indicator or not. |
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154:37 | we talked a little bit of a itty logs but we haven't discussed that |
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154:43 | much yet. So let's move on another log that we use all the |
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154:47 | . And this is the acoustic log the sonic log. And this is |
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154:57 | a pretty simple log. It just a little bender, twitter chirp er |
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155:09 | source that just bleeps gives a little that goes into the that little bleep |
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155:27 | vibration goes into the drilling mud and hits the wall and then refracts along |
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155:35 | wall. But of course it's everywhere the wall. And so it's giving |
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155:39 | little pulse. Then we have a and we just detect the travel |
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156:00 | So in the very simplest incarnation, way it used to be. You |
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156:08 | have one receiver and you would just the receiver would maybe be spaced a |
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156:13 | . So you just get the travel across a meter and then that's exactly |
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156:19 | the log was plotted was just transit . So time and then we knew |
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156:24 | the spacing was. So you've got over that distance and the reciprocal, |
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156:30 | just the velocity. So with output transit time which was really won over |
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156:37 | velocity or the slowness. So that the basic tool that had some |
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156:45 | If the tool was tilted in the a little bit, so a better |
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156:52 | to do it was to have two and then transmit and then just take |
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156:57 | difference in travel time across between these receivers. So the transit time across |
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157:13 | here to here in the formation would you an interval and this might these |
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157:17 | might be separated by a foot. that would give you the microseconds travel |
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157:23 | foot in the formation and so that actually slowness, It's one over |
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157:36 | So that was the basic measurement, measurement. And then as good |
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157:44 | if we've got two receivers, why use four receivers. And if you've |
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157:47 | one source, why not use two , we always like more data. |
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157:51 | so this configuration gives us an even measurement because now I can take the |
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157:58 | time from this guy to these receivers the upper guy. These receivers and |
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158:04 | can get four or eight measurements and I can process those a lot better |
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158:11 | give me what would be the effect transit time between receiver one and receiver |
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158:17 | two and three. And now I get a really good estimate of the |
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158:22 | time in the formation and I start get rid of tilt of the tool |
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158:28 | the time in the fluid and I get the time and the formation and |
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158:36 | the output is strictly the transit time the formation. And then if I'm |
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158:45 | have four receivers why not have eight . And now I can measure the |
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158:53 | of time across all these receivers and output that number And why not put |
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158:59 | transmitter up here and get 16. you can just go on and on |
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159:04 | we get lots of data and we process it for noise for errors with |
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159:07 | for all kinds of stuff. But the idea is just the sonic time |
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159:13 | an interval. So that's it. here's here's another configuration. I have |
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159:19 | source here, receivers, receivers and another source here and I can measure |
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159:28 | will be in the well but I measure the travel times between all these |
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159:32 | combinations and then just output it. time across the central party. Now |
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159:39 | can see the tool itself has slots it. Why do you think that |
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159:51 | ? It's gonna grab some water? ideas why this tool itself would have |
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160:16 | slots? Um I'm not sure what mean. Let's step out like a |
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160:28 | , I'm not sure. Well you imagine if we cause a vibration up |
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160:35 | that's intended to go witnesses in the , through the fluid into the formation |
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160:40 | back. Cause the vibration here. gonna happen to the tool? Oh |
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160:48 | see. It's to not make it rigid. Yeah, well vibration here |
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160:53 | basically to propagate down the tool and velocity of steel is around five or |
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160:58 | m per second. So the vibration going to go down the tool and |
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161:02 | picked up and it's going to arrive the formation. And so all I'm |
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161:07 | to get is the speed of steel the tool. And how interesting is |
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161:14 | ? Not very in this case. you put slots and the vibration goes |
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161:21 | but it bounces around and basically slots the wave going down the tool so |
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161:27 | the tool itself does not support the and then cause noise. So we |
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161:36 | to, we have to have the rigid because it's got to go into |
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161:44 | well and we've got to pull it and it's got to be high pressure |
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161:46 | high temperature and all that stuff and get caught in the well, especially |
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161:51 | open hole so it has to be rigid but I'm trying to make it |
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161:57 | without conducting. Sound very easily. it's lots of good. So this |
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162:06 | the kind of um Sonic tool we and you can see these tools are |
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162:13 | long that you know the whole tool with all the measurements might be 45 |
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162:18 | 50 ft long and that's why you to assemble this tool and then lower |
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162:22 | all into the well. So you're about practical things. What's what's the |
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162:33 | of the tool? Well it has go inside whatever whatever you've got in |
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162:36 | well so that's key. Um What of pressure can it tolerate? Well |
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162:44 | kill O. P. S. . A. P. S. |
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162:47 | . Per foot. So this tool go down to about 20,000 ft. |
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162:52 | will tolerate 350° off 175° C. we said 30 degrees C. Per |
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163:02 | m. So this tool will go to something like 6000 m or 20 |
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163:08 | 25,000 ft. So you can see it's rated really for a 20,000 ft |
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163:16 | and you don't want to screw any that stuff up because if the well |
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163:21 | deeper than this tool can't handle So that's something and then how you |
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163:35 | this. This is the race on . So we said that that schematic |
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163:39 | that there was a source than eight . So we're gonna get waves that |
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163:45 | by like this, they're getting we're gonna stack this at different move |
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163:50 | and then extract the velocity and we do this all automatically. So no |
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163:55 | intervention, you just stack across all slopes and the slope that has the |
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163:59 | power is the velocity. And then output that velocity. So this is |
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164:04 | array sonic with an array processing stacker to find the most power. The |
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164:12 | power of the stack corresponds to the move out or slope or velocity. |
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164:18 | then at each time I can get velocity event and separate the P and |
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164:23 | shear waves by stacking across this rate that's all done automatically. So it's |
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164:29 | it's a nice tool even if we had four receivers that I can still |
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164:42 | and maybe get the velocity as well the first arrival. So we do |
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164:48 | at every level. I extract the wave velocity at every level and the |
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164:53 | wave velocity every level and then output as blog. So here are our |
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165:04 | logs and the the frequency of the for the little event is typically around |
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165:11 | hertz. So the seismic band is 10 hertz. The sonic band is |
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165:17 | 10,000 hertz. And the ultrasonic band around a megahertz, a million hertz |
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165:24 | cycles per second. So these are logs. Now, if we go |
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165:43 | here, we can see that in particular reservoir, the p and the |
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165:50 | velocities have very different character. So P wave velocity in this section is |
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165:57 | is sandy Shelley. And then we into a sand reservoir and then do |
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166:02 | sandy sally Shelley's push with her now from shale to sand. For the |
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166:09 | wave you can see there's a big . Now, can you remember why |
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166:14 | might be? Why is the difference the shear wave velocity going from shale |
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166:18 | sand? Is it due to the of the consolidation a little bit? |
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166:28 | we said shale is kind of clay that is malleable and bendable. So |
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166:35 | shell doesn't have that big rigidity. is glass, it's very rigid and |
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166:41 | . So the rigidity or the shear velocity of sand is anomalous Lehigh. |
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166:52 | that's a nice sand indicator. So turns out that this reservoir is oil |
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167:27 | . I made it green, it's saturated. But what do you think |
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167:32 | reservoir would look like for these logs in this green area instead of |
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167:40 | There was actually gas. How would on this interval? How would you |
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167:49 | these logs to change? Wouldn't it higher? I remember this from |
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168:07 | wasn't it? Gas doesn't do Well, gas doesn't do anything to |
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168:18 | rigidity. Right. So, probably the shear wave blog, what did |
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168:25 | say? We said that when gas in it lowers the density, but |
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168:28 | the rigidity. So we said that should make the shear wave velocity go |
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168:35 | or down a little bit. We that it's gonna go up a little |
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168:43 | because it's lower density and the density in the denominator. That's right, |
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168:49 | . So if this if if we this oil with with gas, we'd |
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168:57 | that the reservoir probably would be slightly . If it was gassy. The |
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169:04 | wave, we said that the the lowers the density a little bit, |
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169:11 | makes it faster, but it lowers compressibility a lot. So, if |
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169:19 | put gas in an area with gas low velocity, what do I expect |
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169:25 | P wave to do the P wave ? If I put gas in |
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169:31 | if it lowers the compressibility, then would be significantly lower. It should |
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169:38 | significantly lower. So, if if was gas in the sand, I |
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169:42 | expect the P wave velocity to drop down. So one of the indicators |
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169:56 | could have was if I shifted this wave velocity over to the P wave |
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170:01 | and overlay these and it was a sand, I'd see the gas |
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170:07 | the P wave, I'd see the increase this and we're gonna get a |
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170:12 | . Okay, and that cross we're gonna talk about that next time |
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170:17 | respect to neutron and density porosity logs we see the same effect. |
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170:27 | once again, if I shifted the wave velocity just over laid it |
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170:32 | we'd be coming along with oil, going to see a big kick here |
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170:37 | the shear wave. But if it gas, I'd see an even bigger |
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170:41 | and then I would see a big the other way with the p wave |
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170:46 | . So that separation is going to a good indicator that it's a gas |
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170:56 | . Okay, great. Now we take just the ratio of those guys |
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171:02 | of course we get the V. . V. S ratio that discriminates |
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171:08 | some of the rock types, sandstone very low because the shear wave velocity |
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171:12 | high and we can see the different . If we put gas in it |
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171:19 | this ratio is gonna get even lower the P wave velocity is going to |
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171:24 | , the shear wave velocity is going increase and that's going to drop the |
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171:28 | . P. Over P. S even more. Now, why do |
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171:33 | worry about that? Well, I'm to take a three D. Seismic |
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171:37 | and try to process it into a P wave velocity. Do the inversion |
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171:43 | that shear wave velocity and then I'm take the ratio of those maps. |
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171:47 | I'm gonna search on those maps and for anomalous areas and that's gonna give |
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171:54 | an indicator of, say, a sand or something. So that's what |
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171:58 | trying to do all the time. , and that's just another picture of |
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172:11 | logging tool in this case. It's piston sources and these can be used |
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172:17 | generate flexible waves that gives us even and better shear wave velocity. So |
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172:22 | is just one of the more advanced logging tools. Okay, as a |
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172:36 | think you may have seen this guy Stephanie. But just to just to |
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172:41 | it, here's our first little So we want to interpret this |
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173:00 | So I've defined two intervals and this , there's a lot of information on |
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173:09 | , so we gotta pick through So we've talked, we've talked about |
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173:18 | few things. Uh Number one is the caliper log. Now we we |
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173:27 | to find the caliper log is the dashes. And so you can see |
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173:34 | the caliper log is buried in But this is the caliper log. |
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173:45 | we first look at the caliper log say, does the caliper log show |
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173:51 | fairly consistent barbell? And what do think? Yes, yes, there's |
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173:58 | huge excursion, there's no wash out , There's nothing really obvious there. |
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174:04 | , we can see that the bit is constant. You see the bit |
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174:07 | track here. Yes, they just one bit, so the bit size |
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174:12 | constant. Now you can see that caliper log is a little bit less |
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174:19 | the bit size. And how can be again, horizontal pressure could it |
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174:29 | be squishing the well, that's one , what else did we say about |
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174:35 | mud cake fluid was going into the and it was leaving residual residue. |
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174:46 | there's that and we're seeing something like happen. It's either this formation is |
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174:51 | or there's residue build up. So just make a note of that. |
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174:54 | by and large the well looks pretty . There's a bit of an indication |
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174:57 | some mythology on the caliber log. that's great. Now our next log |
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175:03 | the gamma ray. And here's the ray here. So the real |
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175:15 | So there's a little bit of an but here's 0 to 1 50 in |
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175:21 | gout on the gamma ray. So are 10 divisions. So each division |
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175:26 | is 15. So when I look the gamma ray and the Fernie, |
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175:33 | its value? Um 15. So be like what? 1 30? |
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175:48 | sorry. These slides were, I download them. So I have to |
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175:51 | at my computer so that's 1.50. that's going to be So less than |
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176:07 | . So like around 120. somewhere in 1 20. So an |
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176:12 | gamma re reading of 1 20. that pure clean sand? No. |
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176:19 | what did we say? So what we gonna probably say that is we're |
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176:23 | to say that's pretty radioactive. What it shell? Probably a shell. |
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176:30 | we're thinking we're thinking shale and it's definitive. So we're gonna put that |
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176:37 | in and that's how we color coded . How a color coded dot for |
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176:42 | . Now we go into the top the nordic and what happens? The |
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176:47 | are Hi. I mean. I'm sorry. Hello. Yeah so |
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176:54 | how are we going to start to about the nordic. What's the first |
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176:56 | you're gonna say about it? It um low radio radio activity. So |
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177:07 | don't know anything about this geology right . So all we can really say |
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177:13 | that that's probably not a shale because seeing what's probably a shale there. |
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177:20 | this is not shale, I don't what it is yet but it's not |
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177:24 | shale. Okay so that's that first now this is a bit complicated. |
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177:37 | me. But these logs are also in microseconds per meter. So this |
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177:44 | the transit time across the interval straight long it takes to go across that |
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177:51 | over a meter. So because I've got one piece of graph paper and |
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177:56 | trying to plot a lot on There's the compression all way of slowness |
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178:02 | interval transit. Plus there's the shear slowness and they're on different scales. |
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178:08 | there's an energy factor here which we're going to worry about. But this |
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178:13 | the basic, the basic log we're going to see is the D. |
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178:15 | compression compression delta T. Just means slowness or the time across. So |
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178:22 | I've got a small interval, small . T. Delta T. That |
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178:30 | high velocity long transit time across a . Low velocity. Mhm. So |
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178:38 | velocities to the right, low velocities the left. But the standard. |
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178:43 | log provides the transit time because that's that's the measurement it's making. And |
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178:50 | the standard well logs are plotted in is one over velocity. However they |
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178:58 | mess with your mind because small slowness big velocity. So high velocity is |
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179:08 | the right. Okay. Small slow our short transit time. Okay so |
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179:26 | interpret these guys just to get extract numbers in the nordic if I'm looking |
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179:34 | this. So D. T. . All the delta T compression all |
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179:39 | the slowness is the solid line. here's the solid line and I've just |
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179:45 | kind of an average across here. the delta T compression als is on |
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179:52 | scale which I've highlighted up here. wave sheer weight scales. So what's |
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179:59 | what's the D. T. Compression in the nord? What value is |
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180:09 | ? Wait Wait Where's The 100? The 500? I'm Sorry. Well |
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180:14 | can see it on the log scale . Here's the 100. So that |
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180:18 | thing is 1-500. That's right. . So then yeah that's the standard |
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180:25 | of way that the the well logs annotated. They give you the value |
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180:30 | the one side of the graph and value of the other side of the |
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180:34 | and then everything else is interpolated. we've got for the p wave you've |
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180:38 | 102 103 104 105 100 microseconds per . For the sheer weight scale you |
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180:45 | see it goes 203 104 105 106 . Okay. So one piece of |
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180:52 | paper with four different measurements on But our interest right now is just |
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180:57 | two the P wave and the shear Friends at times. Okay, so |
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181:04 | the P wave would be that thick . So that's going to be |
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181:07 | That's right. Okay. So this the P wave is 200 microseconds per |
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181:18 | . The shear wave here is this , the dotted line. I've just |
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181:24 | it as a dotted line. Here's shear wave. And what's that? |
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181:29 | it's 200 303. What are those 2040 60? So like 3 |
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181:36 | Yeah, so it's 3 40 microseconds . And then if we move up |
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181:44 | the Fernie, what's what's the Freddy wave here? That's gonna be |
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181:53 | 62 60. Yeah. And then shear wave 60 sets 200 300 |
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182:07 | So you can see that the Fernie lower velocity and the shear wave is |
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182:22 | lower velocity. So what does that us again? The shear wave is |
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182:33 | low velocity. Oh so then it's goes back in with the shells because |
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182:38 | shells are very um what's this Yeah, we'll make up one if |
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182:49 | I just make them up if I remember. So so we said that |
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182:58 | expect the shells to be non We expect that to give low shear |
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183:05 | . We've got a low shear And oh guess what? It's highly |
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183:09 | . So are you getting convinced that that you've got it interpreted correctly? |
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183:19 | it's all this is looking pretty slam as a shell, high radioactive low |
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183:28 | velocity and moderate P wave velocity. this guy is clean. So it's |
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183:38 | Shelly And it has a pretty high . This is 200 microseconds per |
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183:46 | So how many meters per second is 200 microseconds per meter is how many |
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183:54 | per second? Um My crow. you got to take one over |
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184:03 | This is one over the velocity. is the slowness. So we've got |
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184:09 | over 200 microseconds per meter. Uh micro is um So just remember how |
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184:24 | do it just for you can just microseconds and put 10 to the -6 |
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184:32 | . So that's a million over 200 . okay so that's 200 microseconds then |
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184:58 | 1 to the -4. 1 to four. No. Oh to the |
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185:15 | yeah so 2 6. So So just two times negative six per. |
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185:28 | this is a slowness. So this one over velocity. Oh so I |
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185:33 | do one over that. I'm sorry just I'm not very good at the |
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185:47 | why we're doing it. So it's be 1/2. That's my right. |
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186:25 | these like iphone calculators are just not . Well, you know, and |
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186:33 | stuff like this. I would just just write it down and don't be |
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186:37 | to do it. Just put one by 200 microseconds per meter for |
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186:46 | Just write it down and then microseconds that. So you got one over |
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186:53 | times 10 to the minus six seconds meter and then 10 to the minus |
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187:01 | goes on top. So that's 10 the six divided by 200 m per |
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187:09 | . And then you've got a million and six zeros divided by 200 Which |
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187:16 | you 5000 I would say don't be to write all that stuff down, |
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187:22 | never get it right if you if jump. Yeah, I kept like |
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187:27 | and going like, oh no, I write it all down and I |
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187:31 | to I have to do that very five substitution to get it right. |
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187:38 | I can tell you that almost nobody my grand class would be able to |
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187:41 | that right now because we just we don't do arithmetic calculations anymore. So |
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187:50 | just we're beyond that. But with kind of stuff, you sort of |
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187:56 | to do it to check the computer because it's like my Gps if I'm |
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188:02 | to get someplace in the city. type it in and it might take |
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188:05 | to exactly the wrong place. For reason it's better that I know more |
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188:09 | less where I'm going. I'm sure see this all the time. Trying |
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188:12 | come in from the woodlands. where the hell am I going? |
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188:15 | my Gps says this and I'm not sure about that. So, it's |
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188:21 | to have an idea of what you're . And so that's what I feel |
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188:23 | all these numbers. Yeah, we're computer process everything, but it's better |
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188:28 | we know what the answer. More less should be so microsecond per meter |
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188:35 | per second, it's gonna be a divided by 200 which is 5000. |
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188:39 | 5000 m per second is pretty So that's not a pure sandstone, |
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188:44 | example, that's getting more carbonated. we don't know what that nard egg |
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188:53 | , but it's certainly not a dirty , and it's certainly not a pure |
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188:58 | , It's something else going on Uh, so I suggest go through |
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189:10 | calculations. There's the answer to their so just a little exercise to start |
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189:15 | this up. Just just do this for the Fernie the VPN Bs and |
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189:20 | the VPN Bs. The answers are the next page. But make sure |
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189:23 | got them and then look at BP B. S. And those are |
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189:28 | of what kind of rock it And then you can see what kind |
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189:32 | rock. It really is the Fernie is a classic. That's simple. |
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189:39 | nordic is complicated. It's a complicated . It's a real rock and it's |
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189:45 | cell ish Isse church. It's and got sandstone in it but then it's |
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189:50 | got limestone cement, ation. So it's a real rock, it's a |
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189:56 | rock but we can pick this apart its velocities too. So we know |
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190:05 | V. P. D. S here that's typically somewhere between sandstone and |
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190:10 | . So okay so we can kind guess this this guy is easy. |
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190:20 | shells slam dunk from strictly these two . It's pretty hard to guess what |
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190:25 | is. We need more logs to nail this down like a P. |
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190:28 | log and some other logs that we'll about. Oh great well great |
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190:35 | That's good. We'll continue on with next friday. If the gods are |
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190:41 | to us let's maybe just try to friday afternoon in person quickly. See |
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190:51 | step. Yeah so let's let's try meet friday friday afternoon in in person |
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191:30 | something goes awry. Not not not but that might be good. Good |
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191:36 | some variety. And uh other other , I've got a bunch of other |
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191:40 | . It's a little bit easier to the exercises on paper and in |
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191:45 | Okay so tentatively let's think about If there's a change that's that's all |
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191:50 | too. We actually have our faculty on friday. The last friday but |
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191:55 | think I will largely missed our faculty next friday. I'll maybe take a |
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192:04 | of breaks and pop into it a bit. But Okay, so |
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192:10 | Good work today. That was We went through a lot of |
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192:14 | So sure your brain and your sinuses both full, but any questions just |
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192:22 | them over to me, our, steward at u H dot E D |
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192:26 | and then we'll carry on next, friday. Okay. Sounds |
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