Formation Evaluation

Overview - SoundTrakTM

 
 
INTEQ's SoundTrakTM service provides the industry's most accurate and flexible acoustic measurements while-drilling.  This service provides compressional and shear wave travel-time in "fast" and "slow" formations.  This allows real-time access to critical formation information that maximizes drilling efficiency and wellbore placement.  The system combines advanced array technology with a rugged tool.  This ensures accurate and reliable logging performance in some of the industry's most challenging drilling environments.

Superior Measurement

  • Accurate slowness in "fast" and "slow" formations in a variety of hole sizes
    • Multi-frequency
    • Multi-pole acquisition schemes
  • The industries widest Acoustic LWD measurement range
    • Compressional up to 190 us/ft
    • Shear up to 520 us/ft
  • True formation shear slowness "directly" using Quadrupole excitation to minimize dispersion correction
  • Azimuthal receiver array configuration suppresses tool eccentricity effect


  

Critical, Real-Time and  Post-processed
Applications

  • Real-time Pore Pressure Prediction
    • ECD management
    • Wellbore stability 
  • Real-time seismic time-depth tie
    • Casing point selection
    • Wellbore placement
  • Rock Mechanical Properties Analysis
    • bulk modulus
    • shear modulus
    • Poissons's ratio
  • Acoustic Light Hydrocarbon Indicator
    • Gas zone identification
    • Vp/Vs Ratio
  • Amplitude vs Offset Analysis
    • Fluid typing
    • Lithology typing
    • Abnormal pressure indication
  • Acoustic Porosity Evaluation
    • Shear Porosity


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Service NameBenefit
MWD ServiceThe benchmark for measurement while drilling reliability, featuring inclination, azimuth, tool face reference, and tool temperature
Triple Combo ServiceCombined propagation resistivity, fully compensated bulk density (rb), photelectric cross section (Pe) and formation porosity measurements
 
 
 
 
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