Nuclear SIG
Spring Meeting May 11
Nuclear 2020 Survey Results: Click for Final results
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT 8.22.2022:
Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies: Consensus Study published by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington D.C, August 2021.
https://doi.org/10.17226/26121
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26121/radioactive-sources-applications-and-alternative-technologies
ANNOUNCEMENT 2.19.2021:
IAEA Safety Standard on Radiation Safety in Well logging:
Specific Safety Guide- SSG-57: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/P1879_web.pdf
IAEA Safety Standard on Radiation Safety in the Use of Nuclear Gauges:
Specific Safety Guide-SSG 58 : https://www.iaea.org/publications/13468/radiation-safety-in-the-use-of-nuclear-gauges
ANNOUNCEMENT 1.27.2020:
Nuclear Logging in two major US government reports:
(i) US DHS report https://www.cisa.gov/publication/non-radioisotopic-alternative-technologies-white-paper
(ii) US DOE Office of Spence Workshop Workshop on Basic Research Needs (BRN) on Compact Accelerators for Security and Medicine (CASM) and associated report.
https://science.osti.gov/-/media/hep/pdf/Reports/2020/CASM_WorkshopReport.pdf
The report on US Department of Energy's scoping study on alternatives to radioactive logging tools, LLNL-TR-679101, has been released.
It can be found on the following link. https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/803033.pdf
SPWLA Nuclear Logging SIG: An Introduction
Objective: The purpose of the Nuclear Logging SIG is to be a focal point to advance the science, technology and application of nuclear measurements utilized for subsurface characterization and monitoring. See the Nuclear SIG By-laws document for details.
A Brief History: The Nuclear Logging SIG was established in 2000 by a group of oil industry nuclear experts led by a Coordination Committee, under the Log Characterization Consortium (LCC). In 2012, like all SIGS, it was brought under the umbrella of the SPWLA as a Chapter-at-Large with its own By-Laws and Executive Committee, after the LCC was disbanded.
Activities: Over the years, the Nuclear Logging SIG dealt with the following areas:
- Carbon/Oxygen (C/O) logging tools and their interpretation challenges in Complex geometries and compositions
- Early interpretation challenges for Nuclear Logging-while-drilling (LWD) measurements.
- Development of a technical position on alternatives to chemical radiative sources used in well logging
- Input by individual SIG members on radioactive source challenges to the National Academy of Science panel asked by US Congress for a report on industrial sources and their replacement (2007) and an Interagency Task Force (2010)
- Written input to a Congressional Subcommittee, on potential effect of a reduction in the He3 inventory worldwide; He3 is used in neutron detectors.
- Input on future of API Test Pits on University of Houston Campus
- Prepared drafts on density/PE and Neutron Standards -under review
- A Catalog of nuclear Logging tools is being prepared
Nuclear Logging SIG is federal tax exempt under Section 501 (c) (6) .
Technical Documents (to view click on document below)
1. Units, Nomenclature, and Environmental Corrections for Pe and Density Measurements
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Questions: Please contact
R. J. Radtke, Schlumberger ([email protected]; +1 281 285 8402 office, +1 281 546 4710 cell)
Ahmed Badruzzaman ([email protected]; +1 510 889 9427 office)
Executive committee:
Chairman: Ahmed Badruzzaman, Pacific Consultants and Engineers and U C Berkeley
Vice-Chairman of Technology: R. J., Radtke, Schlumberger
Secretary Dale Fitz: ExxonMobil
Treasurer: Cornelius Huiszoon: Schlumberger Pathfinder
SIG Webmaster: Weijun Guo
: Halliburton
Executive Members:
Feyzi Inanc: Baker Hughes
Gordon Moake: Halliburton
Anton Nikitin: Shell
Richard Pemper: Weatherford
Adrian Zett: BP
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By Laws (click on By Laws)