Measurement while drilling (MWD) : signal analysis, optimization, and design /

• Main Author: Chin, Wilson C.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Scrivener Publishing/Wiley, [2014]
• Subjects: Oil well logging, Electric.; Oil well drilling.; Orientation > Measurement.; Wells > Fluid dynamics.; Flow meters.; Formation damage (Petroleum engineering) > Measurement > Congresses.; Geophysical well logging.; Oil well logging > Congresses.; Petroleum > Geology > Congresses.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.; Electronic books.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781118831694 (epub); 1118831691 (epub); 9781118831700 (pdf); 1118831705 (pdf); 9781118831724 ( oBook); 1118831721 ( oBook); 9781317641803; 1317641809; 1118831683; 9781118831687
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118831724

Trade magazines and review articles describe MWD in casual terms, e.g., positive versus negative pulsers, continuous wave systems, drilling channel noise and attenuation, in very simple terms absent of technical rigor. However, few truly scientific discussions are available on existing methods, let alone the advances necessary for high-data-rate telemetry. Without a strong foundation building on solid acoustic principles, rigorous mathematics, and of course, fast, inexpensive and efficient testing of mechanical designs, low data rates will impose unacceptable quality issues to real-time f.