electrical log — Oil & Gas Glossary

A wireline log of formationresistivity produced by a simple, unfocused arrangement of current emitting and measure electrodes. Conventional electrical devices have four electrodes-current emitting (A), current return (B), measure (M) and measure reference (N)-which may be placed in different configurations. The two most common configurations are the normal and lateral. The currents used are low frequency, typically less than 500