Measurement While Drilling
Signal Analysis, Optimization and Design
Wilson Chin
- 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
- formation
- evaluation
- for
- years
- to
- come.This
- all-new
- revised
- second
- edition
- of
- an
- instant
- classic
- promises
- to
- change
- all
- of
- this.
- The
- lead
- author
- and
- M.I.T.-educated
- scientist,
- Wilson
- Chin,
- has
- written
- the
- only
- book
- available
- that
- develops
- mud
- pulse
- telemetry
- from
- first
- principles,
- adapting
- sound
- acoustic
- principles
- to
- rigorous
- signal
- processing
- and
- efficient
- wind
- tunnel
- testing.
- In
- fact,
- the
- methods
- and
- telemetry
- principles
- developed
- in
- the
- book
- were
- recently
- adopted
- by
- one
- of
- the
- world's
- largest
- industrial
- corporations
- in
- its
- mission
- to
- redefine
- the
- face
- of
- MWD.The
- entire
- engineering
- history
- for
- continuous
- wave
- telemetry
- is
- covered:
- anecdotal
- stories
- and
- their
- fallacies,
- original
- hardware
- problems
- and
- their
- solutions,
- different
- noise
- mechanisms
- and
- their
- signal
- processing
- solutions,
- apparent
- paradoxes
- encountered
- in
- field
- tests
- and
- simple
- explanations
- to
- complicated
- questions,
- and
- so
- on,
- are
- discussed
- in
- complete
- "tell
- all"
- detail
- for
- students,
- research
- professors
- and
- professional
- engineers
- alike.
- These
- include
- signal
- processing
- algorithms,
- signal
- enhancement
- methods,
- and
- highly
- efficient
- "short"
- and
- "long
- wind
- tunnel"
- test
- methods,
- whose
- results
- can
- be
- dynamically
- re-scaled
- to
- real
- muds
- flowing
- at
- any
- speed.
- A
- must
- read
- for
- all
- petroleum
- engineering professionals!
