Reservoir characterization

Two Approaches Provide Quality Control for NMR Measurement of Unconventional Rock

The authors introduce and compare two quality-control approaches based on two different signal-processing practices.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements are extremely valuable in the assessment of fluid-flow properties of rocks. However, inverted transverse-relaxation time (T2) distributions are often biased. The authors of the complete paper introduce and compare two quality-control approaches based on two different signal-processing practices: the semilogarithmic derivative and the Hilbert transform. This work provides the basis of effective quality-control methods for NMR measurements for the petrophysical interpretation of rocks with complex pore-size distributions.

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