Abstract
Recent technological advances have increased interest to acoustic ranging especially the passive acoustic ranging which is easier to operate in the oilfield. For analyzing the non-stationary drilling-bit signal, the conventional discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) has been known to be less efficient. A new extraction method based on wavelet packet (WP) is presented. In the signal processing, WP is used to decompose the original drilling-bit signal into the sub-frequency bands (SFBs). By analyzing energy spectrum of the SFBs, the first four SFBs are found that contain the characteristic of the drilling-bit, and the specific frequency band of the drilling-bit signal is determined after power spectrum analyzing. The field test shows that when the bit is near to the casing of the adjacent well, the reconstruction drilling-bit signal changes significantly which can give warning accurately.
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