Patents Represented by Attorney Shaun B. Sethna
  • Patent number: 8244473
    Abstract: System and method for automatic analysis and determination of a parameter. Measurement data are obtained from one or more sensors deployed to measure a desired parameter, the data being associated to identified locations. The measured data are processed to parse out the data obtained with at least one sensor configured to provide a measurement of a selected subsurface parameter and examined to automatically output a value determined to be the most accurate value for the selected parameter from the obtained measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Radtke, Robert Perchonok, Matthew McCoy
  • Patent number: 8201625
    Abstract: Methods of generating radial survey images of a borehole and methods of orienting downhole operational tools are disclosed. The disclosed techniques are used to generate a radial survey of the borehole in the form of one or more rose-plots and/or a radial image of the borehole and surrounding area that can be used to properly orient downhole operational tools in the desired direction. The tool string includes, from the top to bottom, a telemetry module, a non-rotating centralizer, a motor module, an imaging sonde used to survey the borehole, a rotating centralizer and a downhole operational tool. The motor module can be used to rotate the imaging sonde to generate the radial survey and then rotate the downhole operational tool to the desired direction based upon a review of the radial survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: James S. Almaguer
  • Patent number: 7888933
    Abstract: A method for estimating fluid saturation in a formation penetrated by a wellbore from nuclear magnetic resonance measurements made at a plurality of lateral depths into the formation from the wellbore includes estimating a bound water volume, a total porosity and a free water volume at each of the lateral depths from the nuclear magnetic resonance measurements. A minimum water saturation is estimated at each lateral depth from the total porosity, the free water volume and the bound water volume at each lateral depth. A value of water saturation is estimated at each lateral depth from the minimum water saturation at each lateral depth. A relationship between lateral depth and water saturation is determined. Water saturation is estimated at a selected lateral depth greater than the greatest lateral depth of the nuclear magnetic resonance measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chanh Cao Minh