PDQ-XRF

PDQ-XRF automated X-ray fluorescence elemental analysis provides elemental analysis of cuttings to be compared with fluid inclusion stratigraphy, petrography, and photography. This insight enables you to evaluate rock and cement types and interpolate spot trends defined by petrography to other portions of the dataset. It can also serve as a stratigraphic tool for well-to-well correlation and for retrospective horizontal wellbore mapping.

Unique one-viewer approach

This integrated approach places the entire wellbore history into one viewer that includes

• FIS fluid inclusion stratigraphy analysis of trapped fluid in cuttings, core, or outcrop samples
• PDQ-XRF analysis, which provides a continuous elemental analysis
• RockEye automated high-resolution photography in both UV and white light
• DQ1000 wellsite mass spectrometer gas analyzer log performed during drilling

Benefits

• Analysis of same sample of rock at each step, preserving the interrelationships among rock type, rock chemistry, and fluid type
• Analysis of entire borehole, from first returns to TD
• Lithology profiles in the absence of, or in place of, wellsite lithology descriptions
• Distribution and relative abundance of cements
• Cuttings volatile analysis for hydrocarbons and nonhydrocarbons
• High-resolution photography in both white light and under UV excitation
• Elemental analysis of rock material via X-ray fluorescence

Features

• Automated process
• Small sample requirements: 2–5 g, washed
• All analyses conducted on the same sample; up to 575 samples per well
• Fast response—analytical cycle of 4 d from preparation (washing, loading, etc.)