Importance of wire line logging

Well logging is the process of recording various physical, chemical, electrical, or other properties
of the rock/fluid mixtures penetrated by drilling a borehole into the earth's cruste. A log is a
record of a voyage, similar to a ship's log or a travelog.

Well logging, also known as borehole logging is the practice of making a detailed record (a well
log) of the geologic formations penetrated by a borehole. The log may be based either on visual
inspection of samples brought to the surface (geological logs) or on physical measurements
made by instruments lowered into the hole (geophysical logs). Some types of geophysical well
logs can be done during any phase of a well's history: drilling, completing, producing, or
abandoning. Well logging is performed in boreholes drilled for the oil and
gas, groundwater, mineral and geothermalexploration, as well as part of environmental
and geotechnical studies.

The oil and gas industry relies heavily on wireline logging, to obtain a continuous record of a rock
formation and its properties. The results then allow them to find out further properties, such as
hydrocarbon saturation and formation pressure, which will make further drilling and production decisions a
lot easier looking ahead.

Wireline logging is performed by lowering a logging tool on the end of a wire line into an oil well (or
borehole) and recording petro physical properties using a variety of sensors. Logging tools that have been
developed over years measure the electrical, acoustic, radioactive, electromagnetic, nuclear magnetic
resonance and many other properties of rocks and their contained fluids, allowing them to evaluate before
looking ahead to reap the advantages.

Data is recorded at surface or in the actual hole. In an electronic data format that can then be either be
recorded through printing or electronic presentation called a well log that is then provided to the client.
An electronic copy of the raw data is made up and well logging operations can either be performed during
the drilling process. This provides real time information about the formations being penetrated by the
borehole, or once the well has reached a total depth and the whole depth of the borehole is able to be
logged.

There are a variety of different types of wireline logs, which are often categorized by singling out their
functions or alternatively by the technology that they use. Open hole logs are run before the oil or gas
well is lined with pipe or cased. Cased hole logs are run after the well is lined with casing or production
pipe. Wireline logs can also be divided based on what physical properties they measure, making up the
different categorization methods.