Study on the measurement method of oil well’s dynamic liquid level based on air column resonance

Abstract

A method measuring the depth of liquid surface of oil well based on the resonance principle of air column is proposed in this paper. In the method, air resonance in casing pipe is inspired by sending white noise to oil well continuously, and then dynamic liquid level of oil well can be calculated by analysing frequency spectrum of the experimental resonance signal. Aiming at the problem that the resonance signal contains a lot of white noise, firstly, convolution window function with stronger filtering characteristics is used to improve the signal to noise ratio; then the method of Welch multi segment average power spectrum is used to eliminate noise interference further in frequency domain; finally, the real resonance frequency is measured on the base of the smooth and clear Welch power spectrum, and the depth of the oil well can be estimated effectively. The experimental results show that the above signal processing method can greatly improve the accuracy of measuring the dynamic liquid level depth.