This is the name of a log measured along a well bore (a well-log). The acronym
CBP8 is a unique identifier to recognize this particular log and can be encountered in your log evaluation software or your corporate datastores. The official name for this log is
'CMR Bin Porosity 8'. Usage of this log is not high and encountering it is a rare occasion. The values of this log represent the contribution of porosity from a given "bin" (with certain characteristics) to the total porosity; e.g., in nuclear magnetic resonance data processing, the "bins" typically correspond to different pore size ranges.
In general this log thus reflects units of the apparent porosity. In other words, the initial estimate of porosity, normally from logs, not corrected for the (often large) effects of clays, gas, etc. Such estimates should only be used for qualitative interpretation of clean, gas-free intervals. At a higher level, this can be seen as a measure of the volume fraction. This can be explained as being the ratio of the volumes occupied by two components, or by one component to the total volume of the system.This log usually has the unit
'Porosity'. This is the pore volume per unit gross volume. Porosity is determined from measurements on cores or interpreted from logs.
Data for this log is produced by a tool that uses a nmr logging technique and can be used to investigate the porosity of the formation. Similar logs are listed below: