Patents by Inventor David L. Alumbaugh

David L. Alumbaugh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20100277177
    Abstract: Methods and related systems are described for analyzing electromagnetic survey data. Electromagnetic survey data of a subterranean formation is obtained using at least a downhole transceiver deployed in a borehole and a transceiver positioned on the surface, or in the same or another borehole. Limits are defined for casing correction coefficients that account for effects of the borehole casing. A constrained inversion process is performed solving for the casing correction coefficients within the defined limits, and for one or more parameters of a model representing attributes, such as resistivity, of the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: David L. Alumbaugh, Cyrille Levesque, Ping Zhang, Guozhong Gao
  • Publication number: 20100171501
    Abstract: To perform marine electromagnetic (EM) surveying of a subterranean structure, a marine cable system is provided including a tow cable, a plurality of electromagnetic (EM) sources coupled to the tow cable, and a plurality of EM receivers coupled to the tow cable. The system is configured for deployment in a body of water to perform marine EM surveying of a subterranean structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: David L. Alumbaugh, Guozhong Gao, Tarek M. Habashy, Frank H. Morrison, Michael Oristaglio, Kambiz Safinya, Andrea Zerilli
  • Publication number: 20100121579
    Abstract: To process measurement data representing a subterranean structure, a derivative of the measurement data collected by at least one survey receiver is computed, with respect to frequency. A response representing the subterranean structure is then computed based on the derivative of the measurement data, where the response contains an air-wave component that has been suppressed due to computing the derivative of the measurement data relative to at least another component that is sensitive to the subterranean structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: JIUPING CHEN, David L. Alumbaugh, Edward Nichols, Stephen A. Horne, Kevin Eyl
  • Publication number: 20100102821
    Abstract: A survey technique for use in a marine environment to survey a subterranean structure includes providing an arrangement of plural signal sources in a body of water to produce corresponding signals. The signals of the signal sources in the arrangement are set to cause reduction of at least one predetermined signal component in data received by a receiver in response to the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: DAVID L. ALUMBAUGH, Jiuping Chen, Kevin Eyl, Stephen A. Horne, Edward Nichols
  • Patent number: 7659724
    Abstract: The survey technique for use in a marine environment to survey a subterranean structure includes providing an arrangement of plural signal sources in a body of water to produce corresponding signals. The signals of the signal sources in the arrangement are set to cause reduction of at least one predetermined signal component in data received by a receiver in response to the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: WesternGeco L.L.C.
    Inventors: David L. Alumbaugh, Jiuping Chen, Kevin Eyl, Stephen A. Horne, Edward Nichols
  • Publication number: 20100013485
    Abstract: A system to perform a marine subterranean survey includes at least one vertical electromagnetic (EM) source and at least one EM receiver to measure a response of a subterranean structure that is responsive to EM signals produced by the vertical EM source. At least one tow cable is used to tow the EM source and EM receiver through a body of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: David L. Alumbaugh, Andrea Zerilli, H. Frank Morrison, Martin Howlid, James P. Brady, Leendert Combee, Edward Nichols, Nestor Cuevas
  • Publication number: 20080239875
    Abstract: The survey technique for use in a marine environment to survey a subterranean structure includes providing an arrangement of plural signal sources in a body of water to produce corresponding signals. The signals of the signal sources in the arrangement are set to cause reduction of at least one predetermined signal component in data received by a receiver in response to the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David L. Alumbaugh, Jiuping Chen, Kevin Eyl, Stephen A. Horne, Edward Nichols