Patents by Inventor John Benjamin Turbeville, Jr.

John Benjamin Turbeville, Jr. 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).

  • Generating pore types and synthetic capillary pressure curves from wireline logs using neural networks
    Patent number: 5828981
    Abstract: Methods of directly analyzing wireline well logging data to derive pore types, pore volumes and capillary pressure curves from the wireline logs are disclosed. A trained and validated neural network is applied to wireline log data on porosity, bulk density and shallow, medium and deep conductivity to derive synthetic pore type proportions as a function of depth. These synthetic data are then applied through a derived and validated capillary pressure curve data model to derive pore volume and pressure data as a function of borehole depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christie Ann Callender, James Joseph Funk, Cynthia Marie Ross, John Benjamin Turbeville, Jr.