Patents by Inventor John Rasmus

John Rasmus 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).

  • Patent number: 11822038
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for determining a contact angle, a wettability, or both, of one or more types of solid particles within a geological formation. The method may include identifying a relative conductive of the type of solid particles and identifying a frequency range for one or more EM measurements. The method may also include determining a contact angle associated with at least one type of solid particles within the geological formation using the electromagnetic measurements corresponding to the frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siddharth Misra, Dean Homan, Yuteng Jin, John Rasmus
  • Patent number: 11774631
    Abstract: A method can include receiving neutron data and density data for a borehole in a geologic formation; determining a migration length value for a layer of the geologic formation based at least in part on the neutron data; forward modeling at least the layer based at least in part on the migration length value and the density data; and outputting, based at least in part on the forward modeling, modeled neutron data for the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporaton
    Inventors: Joan Abadie, Mohammad Taghi Salehi, Koji Ito, John Rasmus, Xiao Bo Hong
  • Patent number: 11752374
    Abstract: An improved concertina wire that is portable and lightweight, easy to handle, and protects against wildfires by absorbing heat and dissipating it through the abundant air gaps in the concertina wire. Made of aluminum, this wire is much lighter and a better heat conductor than previous concertina wire made of steel. Made without razors, this wire can be extruded or stamped into a spiral cylinder using standard tool and die methods. Made with lightweight, non-rusting aluminum, and without razors, this wire can be quickly deployed by most everyone without a machine in front of homes, vehicles, grasslands, forests and such. As coiled concertina wire, a person or animal can crawl into the center of the coils so that wildfires will be harmlessly absorbed by the wire and dissipated into the large air gap between the wires. Formed into a dome around a person, the wire forms a smooth Faraday Gage to dissipate lightning strikes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: John Rasmus Thompson
  • Patent number: 11747508
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for determining a wettability of one or more types of solid particles within a geological formation. The method may include receiving a plurality of electromagnetic measurements within a frequency range from an electromagnetic well-logging tool. The method may also include determining a contact angle associated with at least one type of solid particles within the geological formation using the electromagnetic measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siddharth Misra, Dean Homan, Yuteng Jin, John Rasmus
  • Publication number: 20230105326
    Abstract: Methods and systems for augmented geological service characterization are described. An embodiment of a method includes generating a geological service characterization process in response to one or more geological service objectives and a geological service experience information set. Such a method may also include augmenting the geological service characterization process by machine learning in response to a training information set. Additionally, the method may include generating an augmented geological service characterization process in response to the determination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Shashi MENON, Aria ABUBAKAR, Vikas JAIN, David Furse ALLEN, John RASMUS, John Paul HORKOWITZ, Valerian GUILLOT, Florent D'HALLUIN, Ridvan AKKURT, Sylvain WLODARCZYK
  • Publication number: 20230102131
    Abstract: A method can include receiving neutron data and density data for a borehole in a geologic formation; determining a migration length value for a layer of the geologic formation based at least in part on the neutron data; forward modeling at least the layer based at least in part on the migration length value and the density data; and outputting, based at least in part on the forward modeling, modeled neutron data for the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Joan ABADIE, Mohammad Taghi SALEHI, Koji ITO, John RASMUS, Xiao Bo HONG
  • Patent number: 11520075
    Abstract: Methods and systems for augmented geological service characterization are described. An embodiment of a method includes generating a geological service characterization process in response to one or more geological service objectives and a geological service experience information set. Such a method may also include augmenting the geological service characterization process by machine learning in response to a training information set. Additionally, the method may include generating an augmented geological service characterization process in response to the determination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shashi Menon, Aria Abubakar, Vikas Jain, David Furse Allen, John Rasmus, John Paul Horkowitz, Valerian Guillot, Florent D'Halluin, Ridvan Akkurt, Sylvain Wlodarczyk
  • Patent number: 11520070
    Abstract: Methods may include emplacing a resistivity logging tool in a borehole; stimulating an interval of the formation in the borehole; obtaining at least one resistivity log of the interval of the formation, wherein the resistivity log comprises a survey of one or more depths into the formation; determining a radial invasion of the stimulating fluid into the interval of the formation; and inverting the radial invasion to obtain an input and entering the input into an effective medium model; solving the effective medium model and generating an effective wormhole radius profile and thickness for the interval of the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dean Homan, John Rasmus, Gallyam Aidagulov, Harold Pfutzner
  • Publication number: 20220381939
    Abstract: A method for evaluating saturation of a kerogen bearing subterranean formation includes obtaining conductivity and permittivity values of the formation and providing an effective medium model relating the conductivity and the permittivity to a water filled porosity of the formation and an effective aspect ratio of graphitic kerogen particulate in the formation. The obtained conductivity and the permittivity values are input into the model which is in turn processed to compute the water filled porosity. The method may further optionally include evaluating the water filled porosity to estimate a hydrocarbon producibility of the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Dean Homan, Natalie Uschner-Arroyo, Chang-Yu Hou, Denise Freed, John Rasmus
  • Patent number: 11346833
    Abstract: A method can include receiving measurements of a fluid mixture where the measurements are acquired by at least one downhole tool; performing a multiphysics inversion of the measurements to generate nuclear parameter values for the fluid mixture; performing a multivariate interpolation using the generated nuclear parameter values that accounts for intermolecular interactions in the fluid mixture; and determining a composition of the fluid mixture based on the multivariate interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vitor Villar De Andrade E Silva, John Rasmus
  • Patent number: 11340375
    Abstract: An electromagnetic measurement tool for making multi-frequency, full tensor, complex, electromagnetic measurements includes a triaxial transmitter and a triaxial receiver deployed on a tubular member. An electronic module is configured to obtain electromagnetic measurements at four or more distinct frequencies. The measurement tool may be used for various applications including obtaining a resistivity of sand layers in an alternating shale-sand formation; computing a dielectric permittivity, a conductivity anisotropy, and/or a permittivity anisotropy of a formation sample; and/or identifying formation mineralization including discriminating between pyrite and graphite inclusions and/or computing weight percent graphite and/or pyrite in the formation sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dean M. Homan, John Rasmus, Siddharth Misra
  • Patent number: 11150373
    Abstract: The highly valuable properties of resistivity and dielectric constant of a geological formation may be determined using an induction measurement, even for a geological formation with bed boundary or dipping effects, using a one-dimensional (1D) formation model. Induction measurements may be obtained in a wellbore through the geological formation using one or more downhole tools. One or more processors may be used to perform an inversion to estimate resistivity and dielectric constant values of the geological formation. The inversion may be performed using the induction measurements and a one-dimensional model that includes a number of geological layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gong Li Wang, John Rasmus, Dean Homan
  • Patent number: 11048012
    Abstract: A formation characterization system can include a processor; memory accessibly by the processor; instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to instruct the system to: acquire induction measurements in a borehole in a formation using an induction tool; determine dielectric properties of the formation using the induction measurements; and generate a log that characterizes particles in the formation based on the dielectric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Rasmus, Gong Li Wang, Dean M. Homan, Natalie Uschner-Arroyo
  • Publication number: 20210165121
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for determining a contact angle, a wettability, or both, of one or more types of solid particles within a geological formation. The method may include identifying a relative conductive of the type of solid particles and identifying a frequency range for one or more EM measurements. The method may also include determining a contact angle associated with at least one type of solid particles within the geological formation using the electromagnetic measurements corresponding to the frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Siddharth Misra, Dean Homan, Yuteng Jin, John Rasmus
  • Publication number: 20210033746
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for determining a wettability of one or more types of solid particles within a geological formation. The method may include receiving a plurality of electromagnetic measurements within a frequency range from an electromagnetic well-logging tool. The method may also include determining a contact angle associated with at least one type of solid particles within the geological formation using the electromagnetic measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Siddharth Misra, Dean Homan, Yuteng Jin, John Rasmus
  • Patent number: 10809416
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for characterizing a subterranean formation traversed by a wellbore including collecting data from the formation using a tool wherein the tool collects data to form an azimuthal image, characterizing a section of the formation comprising data and images acquired in a high angle wellbore section or horizontal wellbore section using a parametric model, and performing an inversion using apparent densities and volumetric photoelectric factor images to build a formation model wherein the inversion is tailored for high angle wellbore sections and/or horizontal wellbore sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sushil Shetty, Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy, John Rasmus, Jeffrey Miles
  • Publication number: 20190353819
    Abstract: The highly valuable properties of resistivity and dielectric constant of a geological formation may be determined using an induction measurement, even for a geological formation with bed boundary or dipping effects, using a one-dimensional (1D) formation model. Induction measurements may be obtained in a wellbore through the geological formation using one or more downhole tools. One or more processors may be used to perform an inversion to estimate resistivity and dielectric constant values of the geological formation. The inversion may be performed using the induction measurements and a one-dimensional model that includes a number of geological layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gong Li Wang, John Rasmus, Dean Homan
  • Patent number: 10466375
    Abstract: A method for automatic interpretation of bulls-eye and sinusoidal features observed in LWD images is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes an automatic workflow for extracting smooth contours from images that demarcate boundaries of structural features, followed by projection of the contours to three-dimensional (3D) point clouds in the well coordinate system for structural interpretation. The method may characterize both sinusoidal features and bulls-eye features, taking into account variations of formation dip/azimuth, or well inclination/azimuth, on the topology of a structural feature. The disclosed method may be sufficiently fast for use in real-time analysis and interpretation, or to provide constraints for physics-based data inversion processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sushil Shetty, John Rasmus, Christopher Edward Morriss, Koji Ito, Shahzad Asif, Vittorio Picco
  • Publication number: 20190293834
    Abstract: Methods and systems for augmented geological service characterization are described. An embodiment of a method includes generating a geological service characterization process in response to one or more geological service objectives and a geological service experience information set. Such a method may also include augmenting the geological service characterization process by machine learning in response to a training information set. Additionally, the method may include generating an augmented geological service characterization process in response to the determination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shashi MENON, Aria ABUBAKAR, Vikas JAIN, David Furse ALLEN, John RASMUS, John Paul HORKOWITZ, Valerian GUILLOT, Florent D'HALLUIN, Ridvan AKKURT, Sylvain WLODARCZYK
  • Patent number: 10386529
    Abstract: A method for determining a level of organic maturity of a shale gas formation includes inverting multifrequency complex conductivity data to estimate a volume fraction of graphite, turbostatic carbon nanostructures, and pyrite. The inversion is validated using estimates of the volume fraction of graphite, turbostatic carbon nanostructures, and pyrite. The volume fraction of graphite and turbostatic carbon nanostructures is correlated to a level of organic maturity log of the shale gas formation. The level of organic maturity log is validated using sulfur content obtained from pyrolysis or vitrinite reflectance. A variation of an electromagnetic response due to the volume fraction of graphite, turbostatic carbon nanostructures, and pyrite is quantified. The electromagnetic response is modified by removing the quantified variation to obtain resistivity and permittivity values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siddharth Misra, John Rasmus, Dean Homan, Carlos Torres-Verdin