简介：Theattenuationfactororqualityfactor(Q-factororQ)hasbeenusedtomeasuretheenergyattenuationofseismicwavespropagatinginundergroundmedia.ManymethodsareusedtoestimatetheQ-factor.WeproposeamethodtocalculatetheQ-factorbasedontheprestackQ-factorinversionandthegeneralizedS-transform.TheproposedmethodspecifiesastandardprimarywaveletandcalculatesthecumulativeQ-factors;then,itfindstheinterlaminarQ-factorsusingtherelationbetweenQandoffset(QVO)andtheDixformula.TheproposedmethodisalternativetomethodsthatcalculateinterlaminarQ-factorsafterhorizonpicking.Becausethefrequencyspectrumofeachhorizoncanbeextractedcontinuouslyona2Dtime–frequencyspectrum,themethodiscalledthecontinuousspectralratioslope(CSRS)method.ComparedwiththeotherQ-inversionmethods,themethodoffersnearlyeffortlesscomputationsandstability,andhasmathematicalandphysicalsignificance.WeusenumericalmodelingtoverifythefeasibilityofthemethodandapplyittorealdatafromanoilfieldinAhdeb,Iraq.TheresultssuggestthattheresolutionandspatialstabilityoftheQ-profileareoptimalandcontainabundantinterlaminarinformationthatisextremelyhelpfulinmakinglithologyandfluidpredictions.

简介：Inthispaper,wetheoreticallyandnumericallystudyacombinedmonopole–dipolemeasurementmodetoshowitscapabilitytoovercometheissuesencounteredinconventionalsingle-wellimaging,i.e.,thelowsignal-to-noiseratioofthereflectionsandazimuthambiguity.First,theazimuthambiguity,whichexistsextensivelyinconventionalsingle-wellimaging,issolvedwithanimprovedimagingprocedureusingcombinedmonopole–dipoleloggingdatainadditiontoconventionalloggingdata.Furthermore,wedemonstratethatthedirectwavespropagatingalongtheboreholeswithstrongenergy,canbeeffectivelyeliminatedwiththeproposedcombinedmonopole–dipolemeasurementmode.Thereflectionsarethereforepredominantinthecombinedmonopole–dipoledataevenbeforethesignalsarefiltered;thus,thereflections’arrivaltimesineachreceiverareidentified,whichmayhelpminimizethedifficultiesinfilteringconventionalloggingdata.Theoptimizedprocessingflowofthecombinedmeasurementmodeloggingimageisgiveninthispaper.Theproposedcombinedmonopole–dipolemeasurementmodemayimprovetheaccuracyofsingle-wellimaging.