Deep subsurface temperature studies in the basins of new Mexico and neighboring geologic areas: precision continuous temperature logging and comparison with other types of logs

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6600415· OSTI ID:6600415

Reiter, M; Mansure, A J; Peterson, B K

For a variety of well environments, continuous temperature logs at different speeds, taken with appropriate equipment and fast-time-response probes, yield temperature data often reproducible to several hudreths of a degree centigrade. Larger differences in reproducibility (several tenths of a degree centigrade) probably result from changes in the wellbore. Temperature-gradient logs are qualitatively correlated to other logs, such as induction-conductivity, gamma-ray, seismic, bulk-density, and lithologic logs. The qualitative correlation with the induction-conductivity log appears best.

• Research Organization: New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology, Socorro (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6600415
• Report Number(s): NP-1902720; EMD-2-67-2321
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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