ANISOTROPIC CASING SOLIDS AND FLUIDS IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SHEAR AND FLEXURAL ACOUSTIC WAVES

A system for evaluation of a sheathing behind a casing of a wellbore. One or more wave generators provide at least asymmetric lamb (AL) waves through a casing having an anisotropic property in a first mode of the system, and provide at least shear horizontal acoustic (SHA) waves through the casing i...

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Hauptverfasser: SMITH, Emma, PATTERSON, Douglas, OLAIYA, Joseph, KAMGANG, Sebastien
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A system for evaluation of a sheathing behind a casing of a wellbore. One or more wave generators provide at least asymmetric lamb (AL) waves through a casing having an anisotropic property in a first mode of the system, and provide at least shear horizontal acoustic (SHA) waves through the casing in a second mode that is concurrent with the first mode. A receiver receives indications associated with the SHA waves and the AL waves. At least one processor determines a quality of the sheathing behind the casing based in part on the indications associated with the SHA waves and the AL waves.