Report May 2018 - High-Resolution 3D Acoustic Borehole Integrity Monitoring

Technical Report · Wed May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1438138· OSTI ID:1438138

Pantea, Cristian ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Real-time, in-situ, high spatial resolution (sub-cm) imaging of the near-borehole environment would revolutionize wellbore diagnostics and integrity assessment by direct observation of defects. It is becoming increasingly apparent, that better understanding of the near-wellbore environment is required to meet the safety and operational needs in challenging environments such as those present in subsurface energy extraction (geothermal) and storage (CO₂ sequestration) applications. Therefore, it is important to have a more robust ability to image the near-borehole and reliably detect defects.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1438138
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-18-24026
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English