NE Seminars

Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Markus Berheide
  Senior Research Scientist
  Schlumberger-Doll Research
  
• "Nuclear Applications in the Oil Industry"
  
  
• Abstract
  
  Oil-Field Service companies, like Schlumberger, provide services to oil companies to help them identify and efficiently produce oil from their wells. As a service company, we provide many things to our clients, the most important being information. A large part of our business is supplying petrophysical information for an oil-well including many parameters such as: porosity of the rock, type or rock, permeability of rock, type of fluids present, characteristic of fluids, etc… To accomplish this, we utilize any physical measurement that may give us information concerning these parameters of interest; for example, electromagnetic, sonic, ultrasonic, nuclear magnetic resonance, and nuclear measurements. This talk will give a background of the nuclear technology that has been developed for the oil industry and how is applied.

  
  There is quite an impressive list of nuclear technology that has been developed for the oil industry including neutron generators, linear accelerators, scintillators (LSO was invented by Schlumberger), and signal processing. The fact that these technologies need to operate at 150 to 175C and at 20 to 30 kpsi while being no larger than 1-3 inches in diameter adds extra challenges to the technology. In addition, the borehole geometry in which the measurements must be performed complicates getting reliable information as does the fact that we have to provide useful information with only several seconds of data accumulation per depth interval. Join us to find out about the nuclear measurement challenges in the oil-field service industry.
  
  

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