A short offset transient electromagnetic method for long-distance exploration of boreholes
LI Hao-Jin1(), MAO Yu-Rong1,2(), ZHOU Lei1,2, XIE Xing-Bing1,2, GUO Qin-Ming3, LIU Can1, KE Xiang-Bin1, HE Yi-Fei1
1. School of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China 2. Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China 3. Research Institute of Logging Technology, CNPC Logging Co. Ltd., Xi'an 730077, China
With an increase in the difficulty with the exploration of oil, gas, and mineral resources, conventional log and seismic methods fail to accurately evaluate the geological structures and transverse reservoir distribution far from boreholes. Therefore, this study proposed a transient electromagnetic (TEM) method for long-distance exploration of boreholes. Specifically, this study investigated the influence of key parameters of TEM devices for boreholes on the exploration distance. Based on the finite element analysis, this study calculated the responses of low- and high-resistivity geobodies under different receiver-transmitter distances, coil parameters, and exploration distances. The results showed that receiver-transmitter distances had little effect on the distance of electromagnetic exploration in the temporal domain. However, the results indicated that coil parameters had significant effects on the near-well detection distances. Under the transmitter coil parameters of 200 turns and 2A current, the TEM method for boreholes was more sensitive to low-resistivity geobodies, with near-well exploration distances reaching 40~50 m and 30 m for low- and high-resistivity geobodies, respectively. Therefore, it is feasible to conduct short-offset near-well long-distance exploration using TEM detectors with short transmitter coils for boreholes.
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