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Volume 67, Issue 3
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In the present article, the dependencies of the acoustic signal total energy and the energies of the wave packets of different types of the waves on the elastic parameters and permeability of rocks have been studied. We have considered traditional logging tools containing acoustical monopole source. Calculations were performed in a frequency range of dozens of kilohertz, typical for acoustic well logging. It was shown that in a typical high‐velocity formation ( > , where and are the velocities of the shear wave in the rock and of the compressional wave in the borehole fluid, respectively), the pseudo‐Rayleigh waves, whose elastic properties depend mainly on the shear modulus of the rock, contributed significant energy to the total signal energy in the borehole. The energies of different wave packets depend on the permeability in different ways. The greatest sensitivity to permeability change has been shown by the acoustic signal total energy and the energy of the low‐velocity part of the pseudo‐Rayleigh wave packet. The theoretical analysis was illustrated by real sonic log data.

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Keyword(s): Borehole geophysics; Logging; Petrophysics

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